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The Grotesque in Roman Love Elegy by Mariapia Pietropaolo is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Grotesque in Roman Love Elegy about?
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 appearance and to degrade their social standing. This book explores the theme of corporeal, intellectual, and social degradation from a perspective attentive to the aesthetic significance of the grotesque ima
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Mariapia Pietropaolo
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press (Virtual Publishing)
- Published
- 2020
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781108738644
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- History, Literary Fiction, Literary Criticism
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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