The Arts of Love: Five Studies in the Discourse of Roman Love Elegy

by Duncan F. Kennedy

Book Overview

This book examines the love elegies of the Roman poets Tibullus, Propertius and Ovid from the point of view of the way the meanings attributed to the poems arise out of the interests and preoccupations of the cultural situation in which they are read. Each study is centred around a reading of a poem or poems together with a discussion of a variety of sophisticated theoretical approaches. All Latin texts and terms are translated or closely paraphrased...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521407672
• ISBN13: 9780521407670
• Release Date: January 1993
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 120 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.0" x 7.7"