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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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"Foregrounding the important role that nineteenth-century spiritualism played in the period's aesthetic, ideological, and epistemological debates, Ilya Vinitsky challenges literary scholars who have considered spiritualism to be archaic and peripheral to other cultural issues of the time. Ghostly Paradoxes ;s an innovative work of literary scholarship that traces the reactions of Russia's major realist authors to spiritualist events and doctrines and demonstrates that both movements can be understood only when examined together."--Jacket.

HISTORY --- Europe / Russia & the Former Soviet Union --- Russian literature --- Literature and spiritualism --- Realism in literature --- Spiritualism --- Languages & Literatures --- Slavic, Baltic and Albanian Languages & Literatures --- History and criticism --- History --- Realism in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Neorealism (Literature) --- Spiritualism and literature --- Magic realism (Literature) --- Mimesis in literature --- Communication with the dead --- Dead, Communication with the --- Metapsychology --- Spiritism --- Occultism --- E-books --- Littérature russe --- Littérature et spiritisme --- Réalisme dans la littérature. --- Spiritisme --- Histoire et critique. --- Histoire --- Russia --- Russie --- Intellectual life --- Vie intellectuelle --- Soviet Union --- 1800-1917

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Ends of Enlightenment explores three realms of eighteenth-century European innovation that remain active in the twenty-first century: the realist novel, philosophical thought, and the physical sciences, especially human anatomy. The European Enlightenment was a state of being, a personal stance, and an orientation to the world. Ways of probing experience and knowledge in the novel and in the visual arts were interleaved with methods of experimentation in science and philosophy. This book's fresh perspective considers the novel as an art but also as a force in thinking. The critica

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