Micaela Janan
Biographic Data
| ID | 1144749 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Micaela Janan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Micaela |
| FAMILY NAME | Janan |
| SIGNATURE | JANAN M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Utah |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 15 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Father's Tragedy
Silvae 2.1 mourns Glaucias, libertus-foster child of Atedius Melior. Statius's allusions to Vergil's Aeneid examine fatherhood as a model for understanding other hierarchical relationships. Statius probes Vergil's implied justification of Augustus's rule as patria potestas via the princeps' mythical descent from Rome's founding father, Aeneas. Writing under Domitian—no Julio-Claudian—Statius scrutinizes an imperial authority still conceptualized …
Politics of Desire
Propertius (ca. 54 b.c.--ca. 2 b.c.) was a Roman poet who composed four compelling books of elegies in the chaotic years surrounding Rome's transition from republic to empire. The first three of these books revolve mostly around a tormented love affair with a woman called Cynthia. The fourth book of poetry rests on more diverse subject matter and is notoriously the most opaque and elusive. In The Politics of Desire, Micaela Janan radically reasse…
Reflections in a Serpent's Eye
Ovid's extraordinary story of Thebes' founding and bloody unravelling spans Books 2 and 3 of his epic poem, the Metamorphoses. His bizarre refractions of the well‐ordered community mirror Ovid's own Rome and the mythohistory of its origins, most particularly as framed in Vergil's Aeneid. The Aeneid has regularly been read as, demonstrating how and why Rome will stride forward into history and an ‘empire without end’. This book uses the psychoanal…
Pentheus Monsters Thebes
This chapter examines how King Pentheus tries to address Thebes' social breakdown into Bacchanalia with an absurd harangue, exhorting his frenzied subjects to forsake the new god in favour of another role model—the monstrous serpent Cadmus slew after it had killed his men nearly prevented the city's founding. But the sheer bizarrerie of Pentheus' speech (Met. 3.543–7) is essential to its significance. Making the snake that destroyed the first The…
‘In Nomine Patris’
Ovid paints Thebes as a series of surrealistic vignettes in which the size, the form, and the very nature of things shift for no apparent reason (Met. 3–4). This welter of phantasmata is nothing short of hallucinatory. Using Lacan's theory of hallucinations as symptomatic of a social and symbolic crisis, this chapter traces these uncanny visions to Thebes' first cause: King Agenor of Tyre. Agenor commanded his son Cadmus to ‘find your sister Euro…
Ovid's Lovers
186 PHOENIX good, respectable fun. Re-reading Aristotle's discussion against Collins's interpretation will reveal a level of incongruity that many scholars will find hard to tolerate. Still, although the book's denouement ismarred by this kind of interpretative overreach, Collins's work should challenge students of the ancient world to ponder Aristotle's potential contributions to contemporary debates, as well as his possibly significant limitati…
Ovid's Poetics of Illusion
The Snake Sheds Its Skin
The Politics of Desire
The politics of desire
Beyond Good and Evil
When the Lamp Is Shattered
Catullan Provocations
Restoring to Catullus a provocative power that familiarity has tended to dim, this book argues that Catullus challenges us to think about the nature of lyric in new ways. Fitzgerald shows how Catullus's poetry reflects the conditions of its own consumption as it explores the terms and possibilities of the poet's license. Reading the poetry in relation to the drama of position played out between poet, poem, and reader, the author produces a fresh …
When the Lamp Is Shattered
When the Lamp Is Shattered
The poetry of the Late Roman Republican poet Gaius Valerius Catullus, a rich document of the human heart, is the earliest-known reasonably complete body of erotic verse in the West.Though approximately 116 poems survive, uncertainties about the condition of the fragmented manuscript and the narrative order of the poems make the Catullan text unusually problematic for the modern critic. Indeed, the poems can be arranged in a number of ways, making…
The Book of Good Love? Design Versus Desire in Metamorphoses 10
Much attention has been paid recently to the role of individual narrators within the Metamorphoses . Whereas it was once considered adequate to attribute the characteristics of the poem solely to Ovid as narrator, a number of critics have now drawn correlations between the development of certain tales and the character of the narrators to whom they are attributed within the poem. Book 10 calls particular attention to itself in this regard. Orpheu…
The Book of Good Love? Design Versus Desire in Metamorphoses 10
Much attention has been paid recently to the role of individual narrators within the Metamorphoses . Whereas it was once considered adequate to attribute the characteristics of the poem solely to Ovid as narrator, a number of critics have now drawn correlations between the development of certain tales and the character of the narrators to whom they are attributed within the poem. Book 10 calls particular attention to itself in this regard. Orpheu…
The Father's Tragedy
Silvae 2.1 mourns Glaucias, libertus-foster child of Atedius Melior. Statius's allusions to Vergil's Aeneid examine fatherhood as a model for understanding other hierarchical relationships. Statius probes Vergil's implied justification of Augustus's rule as patria potestas via the princeps' mythical descent from Rome's founding father, Aeneas. Writing under Domitian—no Julio-Claudian—Statius scrutinizes an imperial authority still conceptualized …
Beyond Good and Evil
The Book of Good Love? Design Versus Desire in Metamorphoses 10
Much attention has been paid recently to the role of individual narrators within the Metamorphoses . Whereas it was once considered adequate to attribute the characteristics of the poem solely to Ovid as narrator, a number of critics have now drawn correlations between the development of certain tales and the character of the narrators to whom they are attributed within the poem. Book 10 calls particular attention to itself in this regard. Orpheu…
When the Lamp Is Shattered
When the Lamp Is Shattered
The poetry of the Late Roman Republican poet Gaius Valerius Catullus, a rich document of the human heart, is the earliest-known reasonably complete body of erotic verse in the West.Though approximately 116 poems survive, uncertainties about the condition of the fragmented manuscript and the narrative order of the poems make the Catullan text unusually problematic for the modern critic. Indeed, the poems can be arranged in a number of ways, making…
When the Lamp Is Shattered
Catullan Provocations
Restoring to Catullus a provocative power that familiarity has tended to dim, this book argues that Catullus challenges us to think about the nature of lyric in new ways. Fitzgerald shows how Catullus's poetry reflects the conditions of its own consumption as it explores the terms and possibilities of the poet's license. Reading the poetry in relation to the drama of position played out between poet, poem, and reader, the author produces a fresh …
Beyond Good and Evil
The politics of desire
The Politics of Desire
Ovid's Poetics of Illusion
The Snake Sheds Its Skin
Reflections in a Serpent's Eye
Ovid's extraordinary story of Thebes' founding and bloody unravelling spans Books 2 and 3 of his epic poem, the Metamorphoses. His bizarre refractions of the well‐ordered community mirror Ovid's own Rome and the mythohistory of its origins, most particularly as framed in Vergil's Aeneid. The Aeneid has regularly been read as, demonstrating how and why Rome will stride forward into history and an ‘empire without end’. This book uses the psychoanal…
Pentheus Monsters Thebes
This chapter examines how King Pentheus tries to address Thebes' social breakdown into Bacchanalia with an absurd harangue, exhorting his frenzied subjects to forsake the new god in favour of another role model—the monstrous serpent Cadmus slew after it had killed his men nearly prevented the city's founding. But the sheer bizarrerie of Pentheus' speech (Met. 3.543–7) is essential to its significance. Making the snake that destroyed the first The…
‘In Nomine Patris’
Ovid paints Thebes as a series of surrealistic vignettes in which the size, the form, and the very nature of things shift for no apparent reason (Met. 3–4). This welter of phantasmata is nothing short of hallucinatory. Using Lacan's theory of hallucinations as symptomatic of a social and symbolic crisis, this chapter traces these uncanny visions to Thebes' first cause: King Agenor of Tyre. Agenor commanded his son Cadmus to ‘find your sister Euro…
Ovid's Lovers
186 PHOENIX good, respectable fun. Re-reading Aristotle's discussion against Collins's interpretation will reveal a level of incongruity that many scholars will find hard to tolerate. Still, although the book's denouement ismarred by this kind of interpretative overreach, Collins's work should challenge students of the ancient world to ponder Aristotle's potential contributions to contemporary debates, as well as his possibly significant limitati…
Politics of Desire
Propertius (ca. 54 b.c.--ca. 2 b.c.) was a Roman poet who composed four compelling books of elegies in the chaotic years surrounding Rome's transition from republic to empire. The first three of these books revolve mostly around a tormented love affair with a woman called Cynthia. The fourth book of poetry rests on more diverse subject matter and is notoriously the most opaque and elusive. In The Politics of Desire, Micaela Janan radically reasse…
The Father's Tragedy
Silvae 2.1 mourns Glaucias, libertus-foster child of Atedius Melior. Statius's allusions to Vergil's Aeneid examine fatherhood as a model for understanding other hierarchical relationships. Statius probes Vergil's implied justification of Augustus's rule as patria potestas via the princeps' mythical descent from Rome's founding father, Aeneas. Writing under Domitian—no Julio-Claudian—Statius scrutinizes an imperial authority still conceptualized …
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