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Roman erotic elegy : love, poetry, and the West
- Author
- Veyne, Paul, 1930-2022
- Preferred Title
- Elégie érotique romaine. English
- Title
- Roman erotic elegy : love, poetry, and the West / Paul Veyne ; translated by David Pellauer.
- Format
- Book
- Published
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c1988.
- Description
- ix, 267 p. ; 24 cm.
- Notes
- Translation of: L'elégie érotique romaine. Includes index. Bibliography: p. 251-259. Copy 2 is paperback.
- Contents
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- Introduction and brief anthology
- Callimachus and lyrical humor
- Pseudoconfidences mannerism and humor
- False confidences the typical
- Not such high society
- From sociology to seminology
- The pastoral in city clothes
- The nature and use of mythology
- Illustrious slavery and the dark lady
- The amusing paradox and the pleasure process
- Pragmatics by what right does one publish one's private life?
- Our intense style, or why ancient poetry bore us.
- Kinsey subjects
- Sex in poetry. Sex in literature. Erotica.
- Other subjects
- Elegiac love poetry in Latin, to ca 500 - Critical studies
- ISBN
- 0226854310 9780226854311 0226854329 (pbk.) 9780226854328 (pbk.)