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The elegy flared into existence, commanded the cultural stage for several decades, then went extinct. This book accounts for the swift rise and sudden decline of a genre whose life span was incredibly brief relative to its impact. Examining every major poet from Catullus to Ovid, Subjecting Verses presents the first comprehensive history of Latin erotic elegy since Georg Luck's. Paul Allen Miller harmoniously weds close readings of the poetry with insights from theoreticians as diverse as Jameson, Foucault, Lacan, and Zizek. In welcome contrast to previous, thematic studies of elegy--efforts that have become bogged down in determining whether particular themes and poets were pro- or anti-Augustan--Miller offers a new, "symptomatic" history. He asks two obvious but rarely posed questions: what historical conditions were necessary to produce elegy, and what provoked its decline? Ultimately, he argues that elegiac poetry arose from a fundamental split in the nature of subjectivity that occurred in the late first century--a split symptomatic of the historical changes taking place at the time. Subjecting Verses is a major interpretive feat whose influence will reach across classics and literary studies. Linking the rise of elegy with changes in how Romans imagined themselves within a rapidly changing society, it offers a new model of literary theory that neither reduces the poems to a reflection of their context nor examines them in a vacuum.

Littérature réaliste --- Neorealism (Literature) --- Neorealisme (Literatuur) --- Néoréalisme (Littérature) --- Realism (Literary movement) --- Realism in literature --- Realisme (Letterkundige beweging) --- Realisme (Literaire beweging) --- Realisme in de literatuur --- Realistische literatuur --- Réalisme (Mouvement littéraire) --- Réalisme dans la littérature --- Seksualiteit in de literatuur --- Sex in literature --- Sexe dans la littérature --- Elegiac poetry, Latin --- Erotic poetry, Latin --- Realism in literature. --- Sex in literature. --- Poésie élégiaque latine --- Poésie érotique latine --- Sexualité dans la littérature --- History and criticism. --- Histoire et critique --- Poésie élégiaque latine --- Poésie érotique latine --- Réalisme dans la littérature --- Sexualité dans la littérature --- Magic realism (Literature) --- Mimesis in literature --- History and criticism --- Elegiac poetry [Latin ] --- Erotic poetry [Latin ]

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Elegiac poetry, Latin --- Erotic poetry, Latin --- Love poetry, Latin --- Poésie élégiaque latine --- Poésie érotique latine --- Poésie d'amour latine --- History and criticism --- Histoire et critique --- Elegiac poetry, Latin. --- Erotic poetry, Latin. --- Love poetry, Latin. --- History and criticism. --- Poésie élégiaque latine --- Poésie érotique latine --- Poésie d'amour latine --- Latin love poetry --- Latin poetry --- Latin erotic poetry --- Latin elegiac poetry

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Philosophy --- Sociology of the family. Sociology of sexuality --- Plato --- France

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"The present book in both its topic and its transnational makeup has come at a very particular moment. A few short years ago, globalism seemed to be both a known and an inexorable phenomenon. With the end of the Cold War, the opening of the Chinese economy, and the ascendancy of digital technology, the prospect of a unified flow of goods and services, of people and ideas seemed unstoppable (Moraru). Political theorists such as Francis Fukuyama proclaimed "the end of history." Yes, there were pockets of resistance and reaction, but these, we were told, would be swept away in a relentless tide of free markets and global integration that would bring Hollywood, digital finance, and fast food to all. Religious fundamentalism, revanchist forms of nationalism, attachments to traditional sexual identities would melt away before the forces of what were variously termed "modernity," "postmodernity," and Empire. A kind of relentless, technocratic rationality would sweep all in its wake, bringing a neoliberal utopia of free markets, free speech, and ever-increasing productivity. Were there, in the words of a seventies classic, "limits to growth" (Meadows et al.)? If so, they would be either transcended or accommodated by the same forces that threatened their breach. Climate change would be managed through a combination of technological innovation and agreed-upon regulation. Population control would be achieved by education, prosperity, and women entering the workforce"--

Globalization. --- Economic development. --- Postmodernism.

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Foucault, Michel, --- Derrida, Jacques. --- Lacan, Jacques, --- Plato --- Influence. --- France --- Intellectual life