The grotesque in Roman love elegy / Mariapia Pietropaolo.

"Roman elegy makes frequent use of themes of ugliness and disfigurement, juxtaposing them with images of ideal beauty and sentiment. In order to overcome the obstacles to his erotic relationship, the poet-lover repeatedly represents his rivals and opponents in such a way as to ridicule their ap...

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Online Access:	Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author:	Pietropaolo, Mariapia (Author)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2020.
Subjects:	Elegiac poetry, Latin > History and criticism. Grotesque in literature. Elegiac poetry, Latin. Criticism, interpretation, etc.