L'Élégie Érotique Romaine. L'amour, la poésie et l'occident. - VEYNE, P.,
l'amour, la poésie et l'Occident
KORTE INHOUD
?A greater interest in systems than individuals leads V. to ground his study of Latin elegy in a history of love. In V.?s view, love is not a psychic constant but a cultural creation, and any ancient practice of eroticism is propelled not by a supposedly ?universal? dynamic of love but by the specific codes which governed love?s operations in the ancient world. V. thus brings to love poetry the same techniques of analysis that he has applied to Greek myth. (?) Like myth and truth then, love and literature are not immutable terms, and the study of Latin love poetry entails the study of the cultural system of which it is just one expression. Within this theoretical framework, an author.s poetic ?confession? of love becomes not the personal expression of thranshistorical sentiment but a culturally specific discourse. (?) V. provides a valuable service in attempting to establish the conceptual structures which underpinned the writing of love in first-century B.C. Rome. (?) V. follows the recommendation of Foucaul...
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Paris, 1983. 251p. Paperback. Series: Pierres Vives. [Antiquarian] [Auteur: VEYNE, P.,] [Uitgever: Du Seuil] [Jaar: 1983] [Titel: L'Élégie Érotique Romaine. L'amour, la poésie et l'occident.]
