The Gendered ‘I’ in Ancient Literature : : Modelling Gender in First-Person Discourse / / ed. by Lisa Cordes, Therese Fuhrer.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2022 Part 1
• MitwirkendeR: Basso, Luca,; Baumann, Helge,; Bessone, Federica,; Cordes, Lisa,; Fabre-Serris, Jacqueline,; Fuhrer, Therese,; Hafner, Markus,; Hallett, Judith P.,; Harich-Schwarzbauer, Henriette,; Hauser, Emily,; Keith, Alison,; Klein, Florence,; Mayr, Christoph,; Moro, Valentina,; Sharrock, Alison,; Sissa, Giulia,; Stähle, Ann-Kathrin,
• HerausgeberIn: Cordes, Lisa,; Fuhrer, Therese,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Philologus. Supplemente / Philologus. Supplementary Volumes : Zeitschrift für antike Literatur und ihre Rezeption , 18
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (VII, 411 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: Gender-Specific Elements in First-Person Statements in Classical Literature -- I The Rhetorics of a Gendered ‘I’ -- The Gender and Third-Person Parameter in the Shaping of First-Person Discourse in Roman Literature -- Construire un « je » genré dans les traductions de Catulle (c. 51 et 66) : Érotique de l’appropriation littéraire et féminisation rétrospective des modèles grecs -- Virgo, virago, Vestal – Gender and Fiction in Seneca the Elder’s Controversia 1.2 -- II Gendering a Non-Human ‘I’ -- Pythia poetrix? Oracular Polyphony between Poetic Collaboration and Delphic Politics -- Costruire un ‘io’ divino: Ovidio e le dee -- In Memory of Reading Matrons and Eloquent Dogs: Female Voices and Role Constructions in Martial’s Epigrams 10.63 and 11.69 -- III The Gendered ‘I’ in Choral Lyric and Tragedy -- Making Men: Gender and the Poet in Pindar -- A Theatre of Vulnerability: Lamentation as a Gendered Self-Narration in Sophocles’ Antigone -- 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 -- IV The Gender Parameter in Erotic First-Person Discourse -- Elle sait. Elle dit. Elle rit. L’éloge paradoxal d’éros par Diotime de Mantinée -- Gender und Rollen in Horaz carm. 1,13 -- Enquête sur l’identité du « je » féminin de l’élégie 3.11 du Corpus Tibullianum : méthodes et conjectures -- V The Gender Parameter in Ovidʼs First-Person Discourse -- Living to Tell the Tale: Male and Female First-Person Narrators of Metamorphosis -- Autofiction al femminile. Arte di raccontare ed effetti di genere in Ovidio -- Gender and Genre in First-Person Discourse: Three Case Studies in Ovid’s Metamorphoses -- VI The Gendered ‘I’ in the Poetry of Late Antiquity -- In den Wind gesprochen – Die Ich-Reden der Ceres in Claudians De raptu Proserpinae -- Medea virago in Dracontius’ Romulea -- Notes on Contributors -- General Index -- Index locorum