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100	1		_aJanan, Micaela.
245	1	4	_aThe Politics of Desire : _bPropertius IV.
250			_a1st ed.
264		1	_aBerkeley : _bUniversity of California Press, _c2000.
264		4	_c©2010.
300			_a1 online resource (256 pages)
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
505	0		_aIntro -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- A NOTE ON CITATION -- The Politics of Desire -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- GENERAL INDEX -- INDEX OF PROPERTIAN POEMS CITED.
520			_aPropertius (ca. 54 b.c.--ca. 2 b.c.) was a Roman poet who composed four compelling books of elegies in the chaotic years surrounding Rome's transition from republic to empire. The first three of these books revolve mostly around a tormented love affair with a woman called Cynthia. The fourth book of poetry rests on more diverse subject matter and is notoriously the most opaque and elusive. In The Politics of Desire, Micaela Janan radically reassesses Propertius' last elegies, using contemporary psychoanalytic theory to illuminate these challenging texts. Janan finds that the upheaval of Rome's transformation to empire corresponds to the intellectually unsettled conditions of our own time, so that contemporary methodologies offer an uncannily suitable approach for understanding Propertius. In particular, she uses the work of Jacques Lacan, since it provides the best conceptual tools for examining the relation between political crisis and the struggles of the self, a theme that resonates in these difficult elegies. This book expands our understanding of an important Roman poet, and its innovative and sophisticated methodological approach makes a substantial contribution to feminist and psychoanalytic criticism. In addition, Janan addresses elegy's relationship to larger cultural questions, and broadens our understanding of the social crisis affecting Rome during the early empire.
588			_aDescription based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
590			_aElectronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
650		0	_aPropertius, Sextus. -- Elegiae. -- Liber 4.
650		0	_aElegiac poetry, Latin -- History and criticism.
650		0	_aPsychoanalysis and literature -- Rome.
650		0	_aPolitics and literature -- Rome.
650		0	_aDesire in literature.
650		0	_aRome -- In literature.
655		4	_aElectronic books.
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _aJanan, Micaela _tThe Politics of Desire _dBerkeley : University of California Press,c2000 _z9780520223189
797	2		_aProQuest (Firm)
856	4	0	_uhttps://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=3038172 _zClick to View
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