Umfang:
1 Online-Ressource (124 Seiten)
ISBN:
9789004548077
Serie:
Brill research perspectives in humanities and social sciences
Inhalt:
This volume sheds new light on the extraordinary richness and variety of love poetry written in Latin from the fifteenth to the eighteenth century. It shows how Latin love poets reworked classical Roman and Greek models, and engaged in dialogue with mediaeval and contemporary vernacular traditions of poetry. They used the poetic language of love in Latin to reflect and comment on wider social, ethical and literary issues, and reconfigured its codes of representation in response to changing conceptions of love in the philosophical and religious spheres. Their poetry often aligned itself with dominant discourses of power and gender, but it could also be subtly subversive or even openly transgressive
Anmerkung:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
English
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9789004548039
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe White, Paul, 1978 - Early modern Latin love poetry Leiden : Boston, 2023 ISBN 9789004548039
Sprache:
Englisch
DOI:
10.1163/9789004548077
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