Confronting Variety: Listing, Subjectivity, and Genre in Latin Poetry
Confronting Variety: Listing, Subjectivity, and Genre in Latin Poetry
Starting with Horace’s lengthy priamel in the first of his odes, this chapter looks at the relation between subjectivity and variety through the phenomenon of listing as it appears in different genres of Latin poetry. The chapter establishes distinctions and connections between the listing subject in lyric, love poetry, satire and panegyric. Particular attention is paid to the tendency of lists to be ambiguous between variety and sameness and to the possibility that the speaking subject may be absorbed into the variety he confronts.
Keywords: list, priamel, Horace, Ovid, satire, Statius, Angelo Ploziano, Seneca the Younger, Christina Rossetti
Chicago Scholarship Online requires a subscription or purchase to access the full text of books within the service. Public users can however freely search the site and view the abstracts and keywords for each book and chapter.
Please, subscribe or login to access full text content.
If you think you should have access to this title, please contact your librarian.
To troubleshoot, please check our FAQs, and if you can't find the answer there, please contact us.