EAN: 9781433113154

ELEGIAC EYES - STACIE RAUCCI GEBUNDEN

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.

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