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Oxford Studies in Classical Literature and Gender Theory

Latin Elegy and the Space of Empire

Lindheim, Sara H. (Associate Professor of Classics, Associate Professor of Classics, University of California, Santa Barbara)

Latin Elegy and the Space of Empire

Oxford Studies in Classical Literature and Gender Theory

Latin Elegy and the Space of Empire

Oxford Studies in Classical Literature and Gender Theory: Latin Elegy and the Space of Empire

 

This book explores the ways in which Latin poets of the late Republic and the Augustan Age participate in a new cultural preoccupation with the dramatically expanding geographical space of empire.


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Beschrijving Oxford Studies in Classical Literature and Gender Theory: Latin Elegy and the Space of Empire

In a time of aggressive imperial expansion, Latin elegists expressed geographical concerns about boundaries and limits through masculine and feminine subjects in their poetry. Latin Elegy and the Space of Empire argues that the subject in Latin elegy, beginning with Catallus, constitutes itself in relation to the dynamic space of empire from the late Republic to the end of the Augustan age. The lack of fixiity in the elegiac subject and space of empire go hand in hand, and in imagining geographical space the question of our very nature as subjects comes to the fore.

Catullus, Propertius, Tibullus and Ovid each offers his own unique expression of the gendered subject, and their poetry runs the gamut of responses to the expanding geographical empire. First comes the dream of Roman imperium sine fine, an empire that capaciously stretches to the ends of the inhabited world. And yet, imperium sine fine requires the existence of some sort of fines, even if the fantasy demands that they be overrun. Formlessness, or worse, rapidly alternating forms, gives rise to anxieties and the desire to set down some fines, to establish where, exactly, the boundaries of empire are, what belongs "inside" and what can be relegated to "outside". But fines, cartographically speaking, are never as stable as we want them to be, and, for a rapidly expanding empire, are always under pressure. The very constitution of the gendered elegiac subject mirrors, anticipates, runs parallel to the problems and anxieties that the map of expanding empire both tries to solve, yet simultaneously reveals in its production of space.


ISBN
9780198871446
Pagina's
256
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Serie
Oxford Studies in Classical Literature and Gender Theory
NUR
680
Druk
1
Uitvoering
Hardback
Taal
Engels
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OUP Oxford

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