The Gendered ‘I’ in Ancient Literature: Modelling Gender in First-Person Discourse

Published by De Gruyter 2022

The Gendered ‘I’ in Ancient Literature

Modelling Gender in First-Person Discourse

Edited by: Lisa Cordes and Therese Fuhrer

Volume 18 in the series Philologus. Supplemente / Philologus. Supplementary Volumes

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110795257

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Considering the ubiquity of rhetorical training in antiquity, the volume starts from the premise that every first-person statement in ancient literature is in some way rhetorically modelled and aesthetically shaped. Focusing on different types of Greek and Latin literature, poetry and prose, from the Archaic Age to Late Antiquity, the contributions analyse the use and modelling of gender-specific elements in different types of first-person speech, be it that the speaker is (represented as) the author of a work, be it that they feature as characters in the work, narrating their own story or that of others. In doing so, they do not only offer new insights into the rhetorical strategies and literary techniques used to construct a gendered ‘I’ in ancient literature. They also address the form and function of first-person discourse in classical literature in general, touching on fields of research that have increasingly come into focus in recent years, such as authorship studies, studies concerning the ancient notion(s) of the literary persona, as well as a historical narratology that discusses concepts such as the narrator or the literary character in ancient literary theory and practice.

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Lisa Cordes, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany; Therese Fuhrer, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, Germany.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	V
Introduction: Gender-Specific Elements in First-Person Statements in Classical Literature Lisa Cordes and Therese Fuhrer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
I The Rhetorics of a Gendered ‘I’
The Gender and Third-Person Parameter in the Shaping of First-Person Discourse in Roman Literature Judith P. Hallett Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	9
Construire un « je » genré dans les traductions de Catulle (c. 51 et 66) : Érotique de l’appropriation littéraire et féminisation rétrospective des modèles grecs Florence Klein Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	25
Virgo, virago, Vestal – Gender and Fiction in Seneca the Elder’s Controversia 1.2 Lisa Cordes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	43
II Gendering a Non-Human ‘I’
Pythia poetrix? Oracular Polyphony between Poetic Collaboration and Delphic Politics Markus Hafner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	69
Costruire un ‘io’ divino: Ovidio e le dee Luca Basso Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	93
In Memory of Reading Matrons and Eloquent Dogs: Female Voices and Role Constructions in Martial’s Epigrams 10.63 and 11.69 Helge Baumann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	105
III The Gendered ‘I’ in Choral Lyric and Tragedy
Making Men: Gender and the Poet in Pindar Emily Hauser Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	127
A Theatre of Vulnerability: Lamentation as a Gendered Self-Narration in Sophocles’ Antigone Valentina Moro Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	151
A Female View of the Tragic Action: On the Function of Collective First-Person Statements in the Women’s Choruses in the (ps.-)Senecan Tragedies Troades and Hercules Oetaeus Therese Fuhrer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	179
IV The Gender Parameter in Erotic First-Person Discourse
Elle sait. Elle dit. Elle rit. L’éloge paradoxal d’éros par Diotime de Mantinée Giulia Sissa Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	201
Gender und Rollen in Horaz carm. 1,13 Christoph Mayr Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	243
Enquête sur l’identité du « je » féminin de l’élégie 3.11 du Corpus Tibullianum : méthodes et conjectures Jacqueline Fabre-Serris Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	257
V The Gender Parameter in Ovidʼs First-Person Discourse
Living to Tell the Tale: Male and Female First-Person Narrators of Metamorphosis Alison Sharrock Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	283
Autofiction al femminile. Arte di raccontare ed effetti di genere in Ovidio Federica Bessone Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	307
Gender and Genre in First-Person Discourse: Three Case Studies in Ovid’s Metamorphoses Alison Keith Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	329
VI The Gendered ‘I’ in the Poetry of Late Antiquity
In den Wind gesprochen – Die Ich-Reden der Ceres in Claudians De raptu Proserpinae Henriette Harich-Schwarzbauer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	355
Medea virago in Dracontius’ Romulea Ann-Kathrin Stähle Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	375
Notes on Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	391
General Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	395
Index locorum Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	403

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Languages: English, German, French
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Scholars and students of Classical Philology, Literary Studies, Ancient History and Gender Studies
Pages
- Front matter: 7
- Main content: 411
Illustrations
- Tables: 1
Keywords: gender studies; antiquity; first-person speech; literary persona

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Published: October 24, 2022
ISBN: 9783110795257

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Published: October 24, 2022
ISBN: 9783110795196