Gendering Time in Augustan Love Elegy

Datos Bibliográficos

ID24184330
AutoresHunter H Gardner (autor de correspondencia)
Año2013
Fecha de publicación2013-01-31
Open AccessNo
TipoBOOK
RevistaGendering Time In Augustan Love Elegy (SOURCE_BOOK)
EditorialOxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199652396.001.0001
ISBN9780199652396
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas39

This project examines how and why time is gendered in Latin love elegy, so that it appears to affect men and women differently. Drawing on recent efforts to situate the elegies of Propertius, Tibullus, and Ovid in their social and political milieu, the book considers the genre's brief flowering during the Augustan Principate. Part one argues that imperatives of the new regime, encouraging a younger generation of loyalists to participate in the machinery of government, put temporal pressures on the elite male that shape the amator's (or "poet-lover's") resistance to entering a course of civil service and prompt his withdrawal into the arms of a courtesan, and therefore unmarriageable, beloved. Part two of the book examines the divergent temporal experiences of the amator and his beloved puella ("girl") through the lens of "women's time" (le temps des femmes) and the chora as theorized by psycholinguist Julia Kristeva. Kristeva's model of feminine subjectivity as defined by repetition, cyclicality, and eternity allows us to understand better how the beloved's marginalization from the realm of historical time proves advantageous to her amator wishing to defer entrance into civic life. The antithesis between the properties of "women's time" and the linear momentum that defines masculine subjectivity, moreover, demonstrates how "women's time" ultimately thwarts the amator's often promised generic evolution.

Aesthetics · Antithesis · Art · Dramatization · Elegy · Elite · Literature · Poetry · Political science · Political subjectivity · Politics · Realm · Sociology · Subjectivity · Gender Studies · Historical and Literary Analyses · Historical and Literary Studies · History · Law · Philosophy · Renaissance Literature and Culture