Sexuality In Catullus
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Sexuality In Catullus
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Author : Brian Arkins
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1982
Sexuality In Catullus written by Brian Arkins and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1982 with Literary Criticism categories.
An Interpretation Of The Poems Of Catullus
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Author : Brian Arkins
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1999
An Interpretation Of The Poems Of Catullus written by Brian Arkins and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Literary Criticism categories.
This is an introduction to the poetry of Catullus, establishing a number of contexts within which Catullus functioned. It sets out four ways in which Catullus can be seen as a modern poet: emphasis on art, on sexual themes on the individual voice, and on a brief clear style.
Ritual And Desire
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Author : Ole Thomsen
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1992
Ritual And Desire written by Ole Thomsen and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with Family & Relationships categories.
Catullus' two wedding poems contain important statements regarding the poet's personality, Roman sexual morality, attitudes to love and marriage, and the practice and psychology of ancient religion. This work subjects the two poems to detailed analysis, and yields new insights into the ritual drama enacted, the mythical and erotic dimensions, and the depiction of male and female. The poems are shown to be more provocative than is usually recognised; marriage is conceived as eternal wedding night.
The Erotics Of Domination
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Author : Ellen Greene
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1998
The Erotics Of Domination written by Ellen Greene and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Desire in literature categories.
The study of women in antiquity is a well-established area of research in the classics. In The Erotics of Domination, Ellen Greene re-examines long-held scholarly attitudes concerning the representation of male sexual desire and female subjection in the Latin love poetry of Catullus, Propertius, and Ovid. Examining first-person poetic personae that have often been romanticized by critics, Greene finds that male sexuality is consistently threatened as moral resolve and social status are undermined by desires that render men passively "womanish": powerless and emotional.
Roman Sexualities
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Author : Judith P. Hallett
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2020-10-06
Roman Sexualities written by Judith P. Hallett and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-10-06 with History categories.
This collection of essays seeks to establish Roman constructions of sexuality and gender difference as a distinct area of research, complementing work already done on Greece to give a fuller picture of ancient sexuality. By applying feminist critical tools to forms of public discourse, including literature, history, law, medicine, and political oratory, the essays explore the hierarchy of power reflected so strongly in most Roman sexual relations, where noblemen acted as the penetrators and women, boys, and slaves the penetrated. In many cases, the authors show how these roles could be inverted--in ways that revealed citizens' anxieties during the days of the early Empire, when traditional power structures seemed threatened. In the essays, Jonathan Walters defines the impenetrable male body as the ideational norm; Holt Parker and Catharine Edwards treat literary and legal models of male sexual deviance; Anthony Corbeill unpacks political charges of immoral behavior at banquets, while Marilyn B. Skinner, Ellen Oliensis, and David Fredrick trace linkages between social status and the gender role of the male speaker in Roman lyric and elegy; Amy Richlin interrogates popular medical belief about the female body; Sandra R. Joshel examines the semiotics of empire underlying the historiographic portrayal of the empress Messalina; Judith P. Hallett and Pamela Gordon critique Roman caricatures of the woman-desiring woman; and Alison Keith discovers subversive allusions to the tragedy of Dido in the elegist Sulpicia's self-depiction as a woman in love.
The Garden Of Priapus
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Author : Amy Richlin
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 1992-08-20
The Garden Of Priapus written by Amy Richlin and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992-08-20 with Literary Criticism categories.
Statues of the god Priapus stood in Roman gardens to warn potential thieves that the god would rape them if they attempted to steal from him. In this book, Richlin argues that the attitude of sexual aggressiveness in defense of a bounded area serves as a model for Roman satire from Lucilius to Juvenal. Using literary, anthropological, psychological, and feminist methodologies, she suggests that aggressive sexual humor reinforces aggressive behavior on both the individual and societal levels, and that Roman satire provides an insight into Roman culture. Including a substantial and provocative new introduction, this revised edition is important not only as an in-depth study of Roman sexual satire, but also as a commentary on the effects of all humor on society and its victims.
When The Lamp Is Shattered
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Author : Micaela Wakil Janan
language : en
Publisher: SIU Press
Release Date : 1994
When The Lamp Is Shattered written by Micaela Wakil Janan and has been published by SIU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with Desire in literature categories.
The poetry of the Late Roman Republican poet Gaius Valerius Catullus, a rich document of the human heart, is the earliest-known reasonably complete body of erotic verse in the West. Though approximately 116 poems survive, uncertainties about the condition of the fragmented manuscript and the narrative order of the poems make the Catullan text unusually problematic for the modern critic. Indeed, the poems can be arranged in a number of ways, making a multitude of different plots possible and frustrating the reader's desire for narrative closure. Micaela Janan contends that since unsatisfied desire structures both the experience of reading Catullus as well as its subject matter, critical interpretation of the text demands a "poetics of desire". She proposes an original and provocative feminist reading of Catullus, a reading informed by theories of consciousness as ancient as Plato and as contemporary as Freud and Lacan. Janan holds that traditional text theory achieves interpretive closure by idealizing a self-aware, autonomous, and concrete textual "persona". In such a view, even the most unexpected or bizarre conduct ought to be explainable in terms of this presumably stable core of consciousness. Thus the extraordinary variations in Catullus' sexuality - including apparent shifts of gender identity - have led critics who seek a personality type that would account for the poet's behavior to speculate about his "bisexuality" or "effeminacy". Postmodern critical theory, narratology, and psychoanalysis, however, suggest a more flexible concept of the "subject" as a site through which a multitude of social, cultural, and unconscious forces move. Human consciousness, Janan contends, isinherently incomplete and in a continuous process of transformation. She argues that Catullus' gender transitions should be understood less as evidence of a conflicted sexuality than as a radical, poetic interrogation of the social construction of gender itself. The Late Roman Republic in which Catullus lived, Janan reminds us, was a time of profound social upheaval when political and cultural institutions that had persisted for centuries were rapidly breaking down a time not unlike our own. Catullus' poetry provides an unusually honest look at his culture and its contradictory representations of class, gender, and power. By bringing to the study of this major work of classical literature the themes of consciousness and desire dealt with in postmodern scholarship, Janan's book invites a new conversation among literary disciplines.
Sex In The Ancient World From A To Z
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Author : John Younger
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2004-10-07
Sex In The Ancient World From A To Z written by John Younger and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-10-07 with History categories.
Comprehensive, reliable and eye-opening, this A to Z examines the sexual practices, expressions and attitudes of the Greeks and Romans, from Catullus and Caligula, to orgies and obscenity to pederasty and prostitution.
Gendered Dynamics In Latin Love Poetry
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Author : Ronnie Ancona
language : en
Publisher: JHU Press
Release Date : 2005-11-18
Gendered Dynamics In Latin Love Poetry written by Ronnie Ancona and has been published by JHU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-11-18 with Business & Economics categories.
In recent decades, Latin love poetry has become a significant site for feminist and other literary critics studying conceptions of gender and sexuality in ancient Roman culture. This new volume, the first to focus specifically on gender dynamics in Latin love poetry, moves beyond the polarized critical positions that argue that this poetry either confirms traditional gender roles or subverts them. Rather, the essays in the collection explore the ways in which Latin erotic texts can have both effects, shifting power back and forth between male and female. If there is one conclusion that emerges, it is that the dynamics of gender in Latin amatory poetry do not map in any single way onto the cultural and historical norms of Roman society. In fact, as several essays show, there is a dialectical relationship between this poetry and Roman cultural practices. By complicating the views of gender dynamics in Latin love poetry, this exciting new scholarship will stimulate further debates in classical studies and literary criticism with its fresh perspectives.
Roman Sexualities
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Author : Judith P. Hallett
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 1997-12-28
Roman Sexualities written by Judith P. Hallett and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997-12-28 with Health & Fitness categories.
In many cases, the authors show how these roles could be inverted - in ways that revealed citizens' anxieties during the days of the early Empire, when traditional power structures seemed threatened.