| The Erotics of Domination: Male Desire and the Mistress in Latin Love Poetry Volume 37 Contributor(s): Greene, Ellen (Author) |
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ISBN: 080614050X ISBN-13: 9780806140506 Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press OUR PRICE: $21.73 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 2010 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Ancient - Rome - Literary Criticism | Ancient And Classical - Poetry | Ancient & Classical |
| Dewey: 871.010 |
| Series: Oklahoma Series in Classical Culture |
| Physical Information: 0.37" H x 6" W x 9" (0.54 lbs) 162 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - Ancient (To 499 A.D.) - Cultural Region - Italy - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: A groundbreaking examination of power relations in Roman elegy In recent decades, scholars in the field of classics have paid increasing attention to gender and sexual politics in Latin elegiac poetry. 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. Analyzing first-person poetic personae that critics have often romanticized, Greene finds that whereas the Catullan lover appears to struggle against his own "feminization," the Roman elegiac poets--particularly Propertius and Ovid--proclaim a radically unconventional philosophy in their seemingly deliberate inversion of conventional sex roles. Through the servitude of the male lover to his mistress, the woman achieves, at least nominally, complete domination and control over him. |
Contributor Bio(s): Greene, Ellen: - Ellen Greene is Joseph Paxton Presidential Professor of Classics at the University of Oklahoma. She is the author or editor of four books, including The Erotics of Domination: Male Desire and the Mistress in Latin Love Poetry and The New Sappho on Old Age. ÿ ÿÿ |