Dream, Fantasy, and Visual Art in Roman Elegy
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Dream, Fantasy, and Visual Art in Roman Elegy

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Dream, Fantasy, and Visual Art in Roman Elegy

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The elegists, ancient Rome's most introspective poets, filled their works with vivid, first-person accounts of dreams. Dream, Fantasy, and Visual Art in Roman Elegy examines these varied and visually striking textual dreamscapes, arguing that the poets exploited dynamics of visual representation to allow readers to share in the intensely personal experience of dreaming.
By treating dreams as a mode for viewing, an analogy suggested by diverse ancient authors, Emma Scioli extracts new information from the poetry of Propertius, Tibullus, and Ovid about the Roman concept of "seeing" dreams. Through comparison with other visual modes of description, such as ekphrasis and simile, as well as with related types of visual experience, such as fantasy and voyeurism, Scioli demonstrates similarities between artist, dreamer, and poet as creators, identifying the dreamer as a particular type of both viewer and narrator.

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Publisher
University of Wisconsin Press
Year
2015
ISBN
9780299303839
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Literary Criticism
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. List of Illustrations
  3. Acknowledgments
  4. Introduction: Dreams and Dreamers
  5. 1. Dream Description and Visual Experience in Latin Poetry
  6. 2. Fantasy and Creativity in Tibullus 1.5
  7. 3. Transforming the Lover: Nightmare, Commentary, and Image in Propertius 2.26a
  8. 4. The Visual Dreamscape of Propertius 3.3
  9. 5. Sleeper’s Dream/Viewer’s Image: Rhea Silvia’s Dream in Ovid’s Fasti Book 3
  10. Conclusion: Ut Pictura Somnium
  11. Notes
  12. Bibliography
  13. Index