The Garden of Priapus

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Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198023332
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (98 download)

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Book Synopsis The Garden of Priapus by : Amy Richlin

Download or read book The Garden of Priapus written by Amy Richlin and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1992-08-20 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Statues of the god Priapus stood in Roman gardens to warn potential thieves that the god would rape them if they attempted to steal from him. In this book, Richlin argues that the attitude of sexual aggressiveness in defense of a bounded area serves as a model for Roman satire from Lucilius to Juvenal. Using literary, anthropological, psychological, and feminist methodologies, she suggests that aggressive sexual humor reinforces aggressive behavior on both the individual and societal levels, and that Roman satire provides an insight into Roman culture. Including a substantial and provocative new introduction, this revised edition is important not only as an in-depth study of Roman sexual satire, but also as a commentary on the effects of all humor on society and its victims.

The Garden of Priapus

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 169 pages
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Book Synopsis The Garden of Priapus by : Alfred Jarry

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The Garden of Priapus

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ISBN 13 : 9781410103031
Total Pages : 172 pages
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Download or read book The Garden of Priapus written by Alfred Jarry and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alfred Jarry (1873-1907) is admired today as the creator of a new tradition of humor.The Garden of Priapus is undoubtedly the best novel of Jarry's mature period. It is historical romance in episodic form, a series of tableaux of Rome in her decadence.

A Discourse on the Worship of Priapus, and Its Connection with the Mystic Theology of the Ancients

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Total Pages : 458 pages
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Book Synopsis A Discourse on the Worship of Priapus, and Its Connection with the Mystic Theology of the Ancients by : Richard Payne Knight

Download or read book A Discourse on the Worship of Priapus, and Its Connection with the Mystic Theology of the Ancients written by Richard Payne Knight and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Garden of Priapus. Translated by Louis Colman. Illustrated by Arthur Zaidenberg; with an Introduction by Matthew Josephson

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Total Pages : 169 pages
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Download or read book The Garden of Priapus. Translated by Louis Colman. Illustrated by Arthur Zaidenberg; with an Introduction by Matthew Josephson written by Alfred Jarry and published by . This book was released on 1936 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Priapus Poems

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Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252067525
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (675 download)

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Download or read book The Priapus Poems written by and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unmistakable by virtue of his exaggerated phallus, Priapus--one of Rome's minor fertility gods--inspired a host of epigrammatic poems that offer one of the best primary sources for the study of ancient sexuality. Despite their apparent frivolity, the Priapus poems raise basic questions of class and gender, censorship, and the nature of obscenity. The god's self-conscious indecency placed him squarely in the realm of comedy, but his role as guardian of fertility also gave him a deep religious significance. Richard Hooper's introduction explores this important duality and places the poems in their historical context. Essentially graffiti clothed in the refined forms of classical poetry, The Priapus Poems offers the reader "a trip to Coney Island in a Rolls Royce." Hooper's lively translation makes these playful poems available for the first time to the nonspecialist in an appealing, elegant, and readable version. This edition includes the original Latin texts as well as a commentary on classical references and textual problems.

Ancient Roman Literary Gardens

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Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0197773206
Total Pages : 313 pages
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Book Synopsis Ancient Roman Literary Gardens by : K. Sara Myers

Download or read book Ancient Roman Literary Gardens written by K. Sara Myers and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Beginning with Cicero and Varro and ending with Statius and Pliny the Younger, this chapter offers a chronological investigation of the ways in which real and literary gardens developed from the first century BCE to the first century CE as a means of elite masculine self-representation and the reactions of elite Roman men to the increased social and cultural power of villa and horti estates and their grounds. Gardens served as powerful symbols of wealth and as creative displays of the cultural aspirations of their owners in ways that challenged traditional definitions of gardens and of Roman manliness. Since these large-scale 'gardens' are primarily associated with leisure (otium), authors are concerned with describing and justifying their activities in these sites as befitting Roman masculine ideals. We can trace a change in attitude towards leisure and the private display of wealth, and consequently gardens, largely attributed to changes in the socio-political circumstances of the Roman elite, in the works of Statius and his contemporary Pliny the Younger, who use laudatory descriptions of extensive villas and grounds as a means of expressing social and literary power"--

Gardens of the Roman Empire

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108327036
Total Pages : 656 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (83 download)

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Book Synopsis Gardens of the Roman Empire by : Wilhelmina F. Jashemski

Download or read book Gardens of the Roman Empire written by Wilhelmina F. Jashemski and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-12-28 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Gardens of the Roman Empire, the pioneering archaeologist Wilhelmina F. Jashemski sets out to examine the role of ancient Roman gardens in daily life throughout the empire. This study, therefore, includes for the first time, archaeological, literary, and artistic evidence about ancient Roman gardens across the entire Roman Empire from Britain to Arabia. Through well-illustrated essays by leading scholars in the field, various types of gardens are examined, from how Romans actually created their gardens to the experience of gardens as revealed in literature and art. Demonstrating the central role and value of gardens in Roman civilization, Jashemski and a distinguished, international team of contributors have created a landmark reference work that will serve as the foundation for future scholarship on this topic. An accompanying digital catalogue will be made available at: www.gardensoftheromanempire.org.

Catullan Provocations

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Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520924096
Total Pages : 323 pages
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Book Synopsis Catullan Provocations by : William Fitzgerald

Download or read book Catullan Provocations written by William Fitzgerald and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-04-28 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Restoring to Catullus a provocative power that familiarity has tended to dim, this book argues that Catullus challenges us to think about the nature of lyric in new ways. Fitzgerald shows how Catullus's poetry reflects the conditions of its own consumption as it explores the terms and possibilities of the poet's license. Reading the poetry in relation to the drama of position played out between poet, poem, and reader, the author produces a fresh interpretation of almost all of Catullus's oeuvre. Running through the book is an analysis of the ideological stakes behind the construction of the author Catullus in twentieth-century scholarship and of the agenda governing the interpreter's position in relation to Catullus. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1996. Restoring to Catullus a provocative power that familiarity has tended to dim, this book argues that Catullus challenges us to think about the nature of lyric in new ways. Fitzgerald shows how Catullus's poetry reflects the conditions of its own consumptio

Ancient Roman Gardens

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Publisher : Dumbarton Oaks
ISBN 13 : 9780884021001
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (21 download)

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Book Synopsis Ancient Roman Gardens by : Elisabeth B. MacDougall

Download or read book Ancient Roman Gardens written by Elisabeth B. MacDougall and published by Dumbarton Oaks. This book was released on 1981 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Chaucer's Queer Poetics

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Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 0802090354
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (2 download)

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Book Synopsis Chaucer's Queer Poetics by : Susan Schibanoff

Download or read book Chaucer's Queer Poetics written by Susan Schibanoff and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Geoffrey Chaucer was arguably fourteenth-century England's greatest poet. In the nineteenth century, readers of Chaucer's early dream poems - the Book of the Duchess, House of Fame, and Parliament of Fowles - began to detect a tripartite model of his artistic development from a French to an Italian, and finally to an English phase. They fleshed out this model with the liberation narrative, the inspiring story of how Chaucer escaped the emasculating French house of bondage to become the generative father of English poetry. Although this division has now largely been dismissed, both the tripartite model and the accompanying liberation narrative persist in Chaucer criticism. In Chaucer's Queer Poetics, Susan Schibanoff interrogates why the tripartite model remains so tenacious even when literary history does not support it. Revealing deeply rooted Francophobic, homophobic, and nationalistic biases, Schibanoff examines the development paradigm and demonstrates that 'liberated Chaucer' depends on antiquated readings of key source texts for the dream trilogy. This study challenges the long held view the Chaucer fled the prison of effete French court verse to become the 'natural' English father poet and charts a new model of Chaucerian poetic development that discovers the emergence of a queer aesthetic in his work.

Marcus Aurelius in Love

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Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022637811X
Total Pages : 181 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (263 download)

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Download or read book Marcus Aurelius in Love written by Marcus Aurelius and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2016-02-19 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1815 a manuscript containing one of the long-lost treasures of antiquity was discovered—the letters of Marcus Cornelius Fronto, reputed to have been one of the greatest Roman orators. But this find disappointed many nineteenth-century readers, who had hoped for the letters to convey all of the political drama of Cicero’s. That the collection included passionate love letters between Fronto and the future emperor Marcus Aurelius was politely ignored—or concealed. And for almost two hundred years these letters have lain hidden in plain sight. Marcus Aurelius in Love rescues these letters from obscurity and returns them to the public eye. The story of Marcus and Fronto began in 139 CE, when Fronto was selected to instruct Marcus in rhetoric. Marcus was eighteen then and by all appearances the pupil and teacher fell in love. Spanning the years in which the relationship flowered and died, these are the only love letters to survive from antiquity—homoerotic or otherwise. With a translation that reproduces the effusive, slangy style of the young prince and the rhetorical flourishes of his master, the letters between Marcus and Fronto will rightfully be reconsidered as key documents in the study of the history of sexuality and classics.

The Recollections of Encolpius

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Publisher : Barkhuis
ISBN 13 : 9080739081
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (87 download)

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Book Synopsis The Recollections of Encolpius by : Gottskálk Jensson

Download or read book The Recollections of Encolpius written by Gottskálk Jensson and published by Barkhuis. This book was released on 2004 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While nineteenth-century scholars debated whether the fragmentary Satyrica of Petronius should be regarded as a traditional or an original work in ancient literary history, twentieth-century Petronian scholarship tended to take for granted that the author was a unique innovator and his work a synthetic composition with respect to genre. The consequence of this was an excessive emphasis on authorial intention as well as a focus on parts of the text taken out of the larger context, which has increased the already severe state of fragmentation in which today's reader finds the Satyrica. The present study offers a reading of the Satyrica as the mimetic performance of its fictional auctor Encolpius; as an ancient road novel told from memory by a Greek exile who relates how on his travels through Italy he had dealings with people who told stories, gave speeches, recited poetry and made other statements, which he then weaves into his own story and retells through the performance technique of vocal impersonation. The result is a skillfully made narrative fabric, a travelogue carried by a desultory narrative voice that switches identity from time to time to deliver discursively varied and often longish statements in the personae of encountered characters.This study also makes a renewed effort to reconstruct the story told in the Satyrica and to explain how it relates to the identity and origin of its fictional auctor, a poor young scholar who volunteered to act the scapegoat in his Greek home city, Massalia (ancient Marseille), and was driven into exile in a bizarre archaic ritual. Besides relating his erotic suffering on account of his love for the beautiful boy Giton, Encolpius intertwines the various discourses and character statements of his narrative into a subtle brand of satire and social criticism (e.g. a critique of ancient capitalism) in the style of Cynic popular philosophy. Finally, it is argued that Petronius' Satyrica is a Roman remake of a lost Greek text of the same title and belongs - together with Apuleius' Metamorphoses - to the oldest type of Greco-Roman novel, known to antiquity as Milesian fiction. Supplementum 2 in Ancient Narrative

A Visit to Priapus and Other Stories

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Publisher : University of Wisconsin Pres
ISBN 13 : 0299296938
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (992 download)

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Book Synopsis A Visit to Priapus and Other Stories by : Glenway Wescott

Download or read book A Visit to Priapus and Other Stories written by Glenway Wescott and published by University of Wisconsin Pres. This book was released on 2013-11-29 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Just as E. M. Forster's novel of gay love, Maurice, remained unpublished throughout his lifetime, Glenway Wescott's long story "A Visit to Priapus" was also destined to be a posthumous work, buried from 1938 until this century in Wescott's massive archive of manuscripts, journals, notebooks, and letters. The autobiographical story is about a literary man, frustrated in love, who puts aside his pride and makes a date with a young artist in Maine. Lavishly rendered in Wescott's elegant prose, the tale is explicit where it needs to be, but—as is typical of Wescott—it is filled with descriptive beauty and introspective lessons about sex and sexuality, love and creativity. Previously published in anthology form in the United Kingdom, "A Visit to Priapus" is presented for the first time in book form in America, containing previously uncollected stories, including three never before published. The result is a candid portrayal of the gifted but enigmatic writer who was famous in youth and remained a perceptive and compassionate voice throughout his long life. Drawn together from midcentury literary journals and magazines of the 1920s and 1930s, as well as from Wescott's papers, the stories were inspired by his life, from childhood to old age, from Wisconsin farm country to New York, London, Germany, and Paris. Finalist, Gay General Fiction, Lambda Literary Awards

The Queer Encyclopedia of the Visual Arts

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Publisher : Cleis Press Start
ISBN 13 : 1573448745
Total Pages : 366 pages
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Book Synopsis The Queer Encyclopedia of the Visual Arts by : Claude Summers

Download or read book The Queer Encyclopedia of the Visual Arts written by Claude Summers and published by Cleis Press Start. This book was released on 2012-03-23 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A distinctly queer presence permeates the history of the visual arts — from Michelangelo's David and homoerotic images on ancient Greek vases to Frida Kahlo's self-portraits and the photography of Claude Cahun and Robert Mapplethorpe. The Queer Encyclopedia of the Visual Arts is a comprehensive work showcasing the enormous contribution of gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and queer artists to painting, drawing, photography, printmaking, sculpture, and architecture. International in scope, the volume includes overviews of the various periods in art history, from Classical Art to Contemporary Art and from African Art to Erotic and Pornographic Art; discussions of topics ranging from AIDS Activism in the Arts, Censorship in the Arts, and the Arts and Crafts Movement to Pulp Paperbacks and Their Covers; surveys of the representation of various subjects in the visual arts, from Androgyny to Vampires; and biographical entries on significant figures in the history of art, such as Andy Warhol, Keith Haring, El Greco, Leonardo da Vinci, David Hockney, Ruth Bernhard, Rosa Bonheur, Romaine Brooks, Simeon Solomon, and Nahum Zenil. Includes more than 100 illustrations and photographs.

The Roman Garden

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134071655
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (34 download)

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Book Synopsis The Roman Garden by : Katharine T. von Stackelberg

Download or read book The Roman Garden written by Katharine T. von Stackelberg and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-06-22 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This innovative book is the first comprehensive study of ancient Roman gardens to combine literary and archaeological evidence with contemporary space theory. It applies a variety of interdisciplinary methods including access analysis, literary and gender theory to offer a critical framework for interpreting Roman gardens as physical sites and representations. The Roman Garden: Space, Sense, and Society examines how the garden functioned as a conceptual, sensual and physical space in Roman society, and its use as a vehicle of cultural communication. Readers will learn not only about the content and development of the Roman garden, but also how they promoted memories and experiences. It includes a detailed original analysis of garden terminology and concludes with three case studies on the House of Octavius Quartio and the House of the Menander in Pompeii, Pliny’s Tuscan garden, and Caligula’s Horti Lamiani in Rome. Providing both an introduction and an advanced analysis, this is a valuable and original addition to the growing scholarship in ancient gardens and will complement courses on Roman history, landscape archaeology and environmental history.

Slave Theater in the Roman Republic

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108216439
Total Pages : 582 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (82 download)

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Download or read book Slave Theater in the Roman Republic written by Amy Richlin and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-12-28 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Roman comedy evolved early in the war-torn 200s BCE. Troupes of lower-class and slave actors traveled through a militarized landscape full of displaced persons and the newly enslaved; together, the actors made comedy to address mixed-class, hybrid, multilingual audiences. Surveying the whole of the Plautine corpus, where slaves are central figures, and the extant fragments of early comedy, this book is grounded in the history of slavery and integrates theories of resistant speech, humor, and performance. Part I shows how actors joked about what people feared - natal alienation, beatings, sexual abuse, hard labor, hunger, poverty - and how street-theater forms confronted debt, violence, and war loss. Part II catalogues the onstage expression of what people desired: revenge, honor, free will, legal personhood, family, marriage, sex, food, free speech; a way home, through memory; and manumission, or escape - all complicated by the actors' maleness. Comedy starts with anger.