Sarah Spence
Biographic Data
| ID | 3604664 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sarah Spence |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sarah |
| FAMILY NAME | Spence |
| SIGNATURE | SPENCE S |
| AFFILIATIONS | California State University, Long Beach |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8140-4167 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The Return of Proserpina: Cultural Poetics of Sicily from Cicero to Dante
In the first century BC, Cicero praised Sicily as Rome's first overseas province and confirmed it as the mythic location for the abduction of Proserpina, known to the Greeks as Persephone, by the god of the underworld. This book takes readers from Roman antiquity to the late Middle Ages to explore how the Mediterranean island offered authors a setting for forces resistant to empire and a location for displaying and reclaiming what has been destro…
Return of Proserpina: Cultural Poetics of Sicily from Cicero to Dante
Claudian, Etna, and the Loss of Proserpina
This chapter focuses on the reception of Claudian's De Raptu Proserpinae , which includes two important differences from the earlier versions of the Proserpina myth. Though her story is still set on Sicily, Proserpina is abducted from the slopes of Mt. Etna rather than from the center of the island, and the story breaks off at the moment when Ceres begins her search for her daughter. While the ancient versions of the tale all resolved Proserpina'…
Drepanum and the Limits of the Aeneid
This chapter examines how Sicily stands as an emblem of empire in Vergil's Aeneid . While we are inclined to approach the Aeneid as a poem of opposites— furor versus pietas ; Juno versus Jupiter; Troy (or Carthage) versus Rome—the prominence of Sicily suggests that the poem resists such an approach. Sicily offers Vergil a narrative model based as much on accommodation as on opposition. While the political and geographic view of Sicily offered in …
Venus’s Other Son: Cupid and Ovid’s Empire of Poetry
This chapter evaluates how, in Metamorphoses , Ovid reworks the relationship between poetry and empire and uses Sicily to make a very different point. Rather than using his poetry to question or explore the goals of empire, he suggests instead that the true contribution of empire lies in the poetic realm. Consequently, Ovid's epic is a narrative empire of constant fertility and transformation, and of regeneration and regrowth rooted in the absenc…
The Return of Proserpina: Cultural Poetics of Sicily from Cicero to Dante
Sicily and the strategies of empire in the poetic imagination of classical and medieval Europe In the first century BC, Cicero praised Sicily as Rome’s first overseas province and confirmed it as the mythic location for the abduction of Proserpina, known to the Greeks as Persephone, by the god of the underworld. The Return of Proserpina takes readers from Roman antiquity to the late Middle Ages to explore how the Mediterranean island offered auth…
The Redemption of Proserpina
This chapter assesses the return of Proserpina in the Ovide Moralisé . The story of Ceres and Proserpina is presented here as a tale of redemption and purgation, virtually a foundation story of Purgatory that links the seven pomegranate seeds to the seven deadly sins, and the delay in return in terms of confession and redemption. In the Ovide , Ceres is glossed throughout as the church, first in her role as representing humanity, then, in her bra…
The Aeneid as Space of Poetic Negotiation
The Aeneid as Space of Poetic Negotiation Sarah Spence The Aeneid, written to establish a link between Augustus and the gods and justify the enormous imperial expansion Augustus was undertaking, is indeed a story of empire. Yet the epic tells that story in a complex way, laying the groundwork for current events, pointing out the pitfalls encountered along the way, and perhaps most importantly, using the medium of poetry to articulate what the pot…
Medieval Autographies: The "I" of the Text
Book Review| January 01 2015 Medieval Autographies: The “I” of the Text Spearing, A. C., Medieval Autographies: The “I” of the Text. (Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2012), 288 pp. Sarah Spence Sarah Spence Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2015) 21 (1): 122. https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-2818345 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Rev…
The Matter of the Page: Essays in Searchof Ancient and Medieval Authors
Shane Butler. The Matter of the Page: Essays in Search of Ancient and Medieval Authors. Wisconsin Studies in Classics. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2011. x + 158 pp. index. $29.95. ISBN: 978–029924824–6. - Volume 64 Issue 2
Felix Casus: The Dares and Dictys Legends of Aeneas
This chapter contains sections titled: Further Reading
Le sentiment du temps dans la littérature française (XIIe s.-fin du XVIe s.) . Miha Pintarič
Poets and Critics Read Vergil
Vergil has exerted a stronger grasp on the poetic imagination and critical scholarship than almost any other poet. This absorbing book, a collection of essays and conversations by such leading poets and classicists as Joseph Brodsky, Christine Perkell, Michael C. J. Putnam, and Mark Strand, explores the ways in which Vergil's work has inspired readers of today. The book takes a broad look at questions of historicism: how we read a work written 2,…
Poets and Critics Read Vergil
The Tongue of the Fathers: Gender and Ideology in Twelfth-Century Latin . David Townsend, Andrew Taylor
Traductions françaises de l' "Ars minor" de Donat au moyen âge (XIIIe-XVe siècles). Maria Colombo Timelli
Andreas and the Ambiguity of Courtly Love. Paolo Cherchi
Metafora Feudale: Per una Storia dei Trovatori. Mario Mancini
Des rats et des Ratières: Anamorphoses d'un Champ Métaphorique de Saint Augustin à Jean Racine. Jacques Berchtold
Poetic Configurations: Essays in Literary History and Criticism. Lowry Nelson, Jr
The Troubadour Lyric: A Psychocritical Reading. Rouben C. Cholakian
Passions et positions: Contributions à une sémiotique du sujet dans la poésie lyrique médiévale en langues romanes . Ria Lemaire
Rhetorics of Reason and Desire: Vergil, Augustine, and the Troubadours
The Poetry of Cercamon and Jaufré Rudel . George Wolf , Roy Rosenstein
Il Miglior Fabbro: The Cult of the Difficult in Daniel, Dante, and Pound . James J. Wilhelm
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Il Miglior Fabbro: The Cult of the Difficult in Daniel, Dante, and Pound . James J. Wilhelm
The Poetry of Cercamon and Jaufré Rudel . George Wolf , Roy Rosenstein
Passions et positions: Contributions à une sémiotique du sujet dans la poésie lyrique médiévale en langues romanes . Ria Lemaire
Rhetorics of Reason and Desire: Vergil, Augustine, and the Troubadours
The Troubadour Lyric: A Psychocritical Reading. Rouben C. Cholakian
Poetic Configurations: Essays in Literary History and Criticism. Lowry Nelson, Jr
Metafora Feudale: Per una Storia dei Trovatori. Mario Mancini
Des rats et des Ratières: Anamorphoses d'un Champ Métaphorique de Saint Augustin à Jean Racine. Jacques Berchtold
Andreas and the Ambiguity of Courtly Love. Paolo Cherchi
Traductions françaises de l' "Ars minor" de Donat au moyen âge (XIIIe-XVe siècles). Maria Colombo Timelli
Poets and Critics Read Vergil
The Tongue of the Fathers: Gender and Ideology in Twelfth-Century Latin . David Townsend, Andrew Taylor
Poets and Critics Read Vergil
Vergil has exerted a stronger grasp on the poetic imagination and critical scholarship than almost any other poet. This absorbing book, a collection of essays and conversations by such leading poets and classicists as Joseph Brodsky, Christine Perkell, Michael C. J. Putnam, and Mark Strand, explores the ways in which Vergil's work has inspired readers of today. The book takes a broad look at questions of historicism: how we read a work written 2,…
Le sentiment du temps dans la littérature française (XIIe s.-fin du XVIe s.) . Miha Pintarič
Felix Casus: The Dares and Dictys Legends of Aeneas
This chapter contains sections titled: Further Reading
The Matter of the Page: Essays in Searchof Ancient and Medieval Authors
Shane Butler. The Matter of the Page: Essays in Search of Ancient and Medieval Authors. Wisconsin Studies in Classics. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2011. x + 158 pp. index. $29.95. ISBN: 978–029924824–6. - Volume 64 Issue 2
Medieval Autographies: The "I" of the Text
Book Review| January 01 2015 Medieval Autographies: The “I” of the Text Spearing, A. C., Medieval Autographies: The “I” of the Text. (Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2012), 288 pp. Sarah Spence Sarah Spence Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2015) 21 (1): 122. https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-2818345 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Rev…
The Aeneid as Space of Poetic Negotiation
The Aeneid as Space of Poetic Negotiation Sarah Spence The Aeneid, written to establish a link between Augustus and the gods and justify the enormous imperial expansion Augustus was undertaking, is indeed a story of empire. Yet the epic tells that story in a complex way, laying the groundwork for current events, pointing out the pitfalls encountered along the way, and perhaps most importantly, using the medium of poetry to articulate what the pot…
The Return of Proserpina: Cultural Poetics of Sicily from Cicero to Dante
In the first century BC, Cicero praised Sicily as Rome's first overseas province and confirmed it as the mythic location for the abduction of Proserpina, known to the Greeks as Persephone, by the god of the underworld. This book takes readers from Roman antiquity to the late Middle Ages to explore how the Mediterranean island offered authors a setting for forces resistant to empire and a location for displaying and reclaiming what has been destro…
Return of Proserpina: Cultural Poetics of Sicily from Cicero to Dante
Claudian, Etna, and the Loss of Proserpina
This chapter focuses on the reception of Claudian's De Raptu Proserpinae , which includes two important differences from the earlier versions of the Proserpina myth. Though her story is still set on Sicily, Proserpina is abducted from the slopes of Mt. Etna rather than from the center of the island, and the story breaks off at the moment when Ceres begins her search for her daughter. While the ancient versions of the tale all resolved Proserpina'…
Drepanum and the Limits of the Aeneid
This chapter examines how Sicily stands as an emblem of empire in Vergil's Aeneid . While we are inclined to approach the Aeneid as a poem of opposites— furor versus pietas ; Juno versus Jupiter; Troy (or Carthage) versus Rome—the prominence of Sicily suggests that the poem resists such an approach. Sicily offers Vergil a narrative model based as much on accommodation as on opposition. While the political and geographic view of Sicily offered in …
Venus’s Other Son: Cupid and Ovid’s Empire of Poetry
This chapter evaluates how, in Metamorphoses , Ovid reworks the relationship between poetry and empire and uses Sicily to make a very different point. Rather than using his poetry to question or explore the goals of empire, he suggests instead that the true contribution of empire lies in the poetic realm. Consequently, Ovid's epic is a narrative empire of constant fertility and transformation, and of regeneration and regrowth rooted in the absenc…
The Return of Proserpina: Cultural Poetics of Sicily from Cicero to Dante
Sicily and the strategies of empire in the poetic imagination of classical and medieval Europe In the first century BC, Cicero praised Sicily as Rome’s first overseas province and confirmed it as the mythic location for the abduction of Proserpina, known to the Greeks as Persephone, by the god of the underworld. The Return of Proserpina takes readers from Roman antiquity to the late Middle Ages to explore how the Mediterranean island offered auth…
The Redemption of Proserpina
This chapter assesses the return of Proserpina in the Ovide Moralisé . The story of Ceres and Proserpina is presented here as a tale of redemption and purgation, virtually a foundation story of Purgatory that links the seven pomegranate seeds to the seven deadly sins, and the delay in return in terms of confession and redemption. In the Ovide , Ceres is glossed throughout as the church, first in her role as representing humanity, then, in her bra…
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