Explores the theme of corporeal, intellectual, and social degradation in Latin elegy from the vantage point of its aesthetic of grotesque imagery. Shows how and why the simultaneous occurrence of feelings of repugnance and admiration is a fundamental aesthetic premise of the genre.
Explores the theme of corporeal, intellectual, and social degradation in Latin elegy from the vantage point of its aesthetic of grotesque imagery. Shows how and why the simultaneous occurrence of feelings of repugnance and admiration is a fundamental aesthetic premise of the genre.
MARIAPIA PIETROPAOLO is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Classics at McMaster University.
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Preface Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations 1. Premises and Expectations of the Elegiac Grotesque 2. Context and Prehistory of the Elegiac Grotesque 3. Cynthia and the Grotesque Ethos 4. The Ovidian Unmasking of the Elegiac Grotesque 5. Revolting and Refined: The Aesthetic Function of Acanthis 6. Grotesque Hermeneutics of the Lena in Tibullus and Ovid 7. The Rival: A Vir Foedus 8. Pasiphae and the Allurement of the Grotesque 9. Ovid's Remedia and the Waning of the Elegiac Grotesque List of References
Preface Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations 1. Premises and Expectations of the Elegiac Grotesque 2. Context and Prehistory of the Elegiac Grotesque 3. Cynthia and the Grotesque Ethos 4. The Ovidian Unmasking of the Elegiac Grotesque 5. Revolting and Refined: The Aesthetic Function of Acanthis 6. Grotesque Hermeneutics of the Lena in Tibullus and Ovid 7. The Rival: A Vir Foedus 8. Pasiphae and the Allurement of the Grotesque 9. Ovid's Remedia and the Waning of the Elegiac Grotesque List of References
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