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Raucci, Stacie
Elegiac Eyes
Vision in Roman Love Elegy
Series: Lang Classical Studies - Volume 17
Year of Publication: 2011
New York, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, Oxford, Wien, 2011. X, 173 pp.
ISBN 978-1-4331-1315-4 hb.
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Weight: 0.380 kg, 0.838 lbs
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Book synopsis
Elegiac Eyes is an in-depth examination of vision and spectacle in Roman love elegy. It approaches vision from the perspective of Roman cultural modes of viewing and locates its analysis in close textual readings of Tibullus, Propertius, and Ovid. The paradoxical nature of the Roman eyes, which according to contemporary optical theories were able to penetrate and be penetrated, as well as the complex role of vision in society, provided the elegists with a productive canvas for their poems. By locating the elegists' visual games within their contemporary context, Elegiac Eyes demonstrates how the elegists were manipulating notions that were specifically Roman and familiar to their readership.
About the author(s)/editor(s)
Stacie Raucci is Assistant Professor of Classics at Union College in Schenectady, New York. She received her BA in Latin from Wellesley College and her PhD in classical languages and literatures from the University of Chicago.
Series
Lang Classical Studies. Vol. 17
General Editor: Daniel H. Garrison