Emotion, Genre and Gender in Classical Antiquity

by Munteanu, Dana

• ISBN13: 9780715638958
• ISBN10: 0715638955
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-07-21
• Publisher: Bristol Classical Pr

Summary

This tightly focused collection of essays analyses the degree to which expressions of emotion in ancient literature and art become an 'artistic' rather than a 'social' construct. To what degree do literary genres, philosophy and visual arts produce expectations for the arousal of certain emotions? Are the emotions of women, for example, represented differently in different genres? How and why do literary genres and visual arts concentrate on specific emotions and stylise them accordingly, and how do particular emotions relate to gender within literary texts? Contributors: Douglas L. Cairns; Laurel Fulkerson; Margaret Graver; David Konstan; Anna McCullough; Dana Munteanu; Evelyne Prioux; Zara Torlone; Jessica Wissmann.

Author Biography

Dana Munteanu is Assistant Professor of Classics, Ohio State University.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. vi
List of Contributors
Introduction: Emotion in Literature: Genre and Gender	p. 1
Veiling Grief on the Tragic Stage	p. 15
Cowardice and Gender in the Iliad and Greek Tragedy	p. 34
Women's Emotions in New Comedy	p. 57
Comic Emotions: Shamelessness and Envy (Schadenfreude) Moderate Emotion	p. 89
Helen as Vixen, Helen as Victim: Remorse and the Opacity of Female Desire	p. 113
Emotions in Ecphrasis and Art Criticism	p. 135
One Wife, One Love: Coniugalis Amor, Grief and Masculinity in Statius' Silvae	p. 175
Absit Malignus Interpres: Martial's Preface to Book One of the Epigrams and the Construction of Audience Response	p. 193
De Bello Civili 2.326-91: Cato Gets Married
Engendering Reception: Joseph Brodsky's 'Dido and Aeneas'	p. 241
Index	p. 261
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