The Grotesque in Roman Love Elegy
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The Grotesque in Roman Love Elegy

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The Grotesque in Roman Love Elegy

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Roman elegy makes frequent use of themes of ugliness and disfigurement, juxtaposing them with images of ideal beauty and sentiment. In order to overcome the obstacles to his erotic relationship, the poet-lover repeatedly represents his rivals and opponents in such a way as to ridicule their appearance and to degrade their social standing. This book explores the theme of corporeal, intellectual, and social degradation from a perspective attentive to the aesthetic significance of the grotesque imagery with which such degradation is accomplished. Although there has been sophisticated discussion of the use of grotesque imagery in genres like comedy, invective, and satire, which are concerned in part with themes of transgression and excess, Mariapia Pietropaolo demonstrates that the grotesque plays a significant role in the self-definition of love elegy, the genre in which it is least expected.

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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2020
ISBN
9781108807999
Topic
History
Subtopic
Ancient History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-title
  3. Title page
  4. Copyright information
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. Preface
  8. Acknowledgements
  9. List of Abbreviations
  10. Chapter 1 Premises and Expectations of the Elegiac Grotesque
  11. Chapter 2 Context and Prehistory of the Elegiac Grotesque
  12. Chapter 3 Cynthia and the Grotesque Ethos
  13. Chapter 4 The Ovidian Unmasking of the Elegiac Grotesque
  14. Chapter 5 Revolting and Refined: The Aesthetic Function of Acanthis
  15. Chapter 6 Grotesque Hermeneutics of the Lena in Tibullus and Ovid
  16. Chapter 7 The Rival: A Vir Foedus
  17. Chapter 8 Pasiphae and the Allurement of the Grotesque
  18. Chapter 9 Ovid's Remedia and the Waning of the Elegiac Grotesque
  19. References
  20. Index