Raucci Elegiac Eyes

Vision in Roman Love Elegy
300. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-1-4539-0785-6
Verlag: Peter Lang
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 17, 0 Seiten, Gewicht: 2 g

Reihe: Lang Classical Studies

Elegiac Eyes is an in-depth examination of vision and spectacle in Roman love elegy. It approaches vision from the perspective of Roman cultural modes of viewing and locates its analysis in close textual readings of Tibullus, Propertius, and Ovid. The paradoxical nature of the Roman eyes, which according to contemporary optical theories were able to penetrate and be penetrated, as well as the complex role of vision in society, provided the elegists with a productive canvas for their poems. By locating the elegists’ visual games within their contemporary context, Elegiac Eyes demonstrates how the elegists were manipulating notions that were specifically Roman and familiar to their readership.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Raucci, Stacie

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Stoffe, Motive und Themen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Lateinische Literatur

Über Autor(innen)

Stacie Raucci is Assistant Professor of Classics at Union College in Schenectady, New York. She received her BA in Latin from Wellesley College and her PhD in classical languages and literatures from the University of Chicago.