Nudus amor formam non amat artificem : representations of gender in elegiac discourse

Evans, Philippa A

Title: Nudus amor formam non amat artificem : representations of gender in elegiac discourse
Creator: Evans, Philippa A
Subject: Elegiac poetry
Subject: Gender identity in literature
Subject: Foucault, Michel, 1926-1984
Subject: Butler, Judith, 1956-
Subject: Benjamin, Jessica
Subject: Mulvey, Laura
Subject: Tibullus
Subject: Propertius, Sextus
Subject: Sulpicia, active 1st century B.C.
Subject: Ovid, 43 B.C. - 17 or 18 A.D. Metamorphoses. Liber 10
Date Issued: 2015
Date: 2015
Type: Thesis
Type: Masters
Type: MA
Identifier: vital:3654
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1017895
Description: This thesis explores the representation of gender, desire, and identity in elegiac discourse. It does so through the lens of post‐structural and psychoanalytic theory, referring to the works of Michel Foucault, Judith Butler, Jessica Benjamin, and Laura Mulvey in their analyses of power, gender performativity, and subjectivity. Within this thesis, these concepts are applied primarily to the works of Tibullus, Propertius, and Sulpicia, ultimately demonstrating that the three love elegists seek, in their poetry, to construct subversive discourses which destabilise the categories by which gender and identity were determined in Augustan Rome. This discussion is supplemented by the investigation of Ovid’s use of elegiac discourse in Book 10 of his Metamorphoses, and the way in which it both comments upon Augustan love elegy and demonstrates a number of parallels with its thematic content. This thesis focuses especially on the representation of power relations within elegiac discourse, the various levels on which such relations operate and, finally, the possibilities for the contestation of and resistance to power, in addition to the motivations that might lie behind the poet‐lover’s frequent attraction and submission to it.
Format: 144 leaves
Format: pdf
Publisher: Rhodes University
Publisher: Faculty of Humanities, School of Languages
Language: English
Rights: Evans, Philippa A

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