Janan Micaela (51 results)

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. 244 pp. Tightly bound. Corners not bumped. Text is free of markings.

Condition: Used - Very Good. 2000. 0th Edition. Paperback. Very Good.

Condition: Used - Like New. Fine. Paperback. 2001. Originally published at $$19.95.

Condition: New. Fine. Paperback. 2001. Originally published at $$19.95.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. Softcover 2000 edition. Text and covers in near fine condition. Binding firm. Text free from markings and labels. {244 pages}.

Paperback. Condition: Good. Good - Bumped and creased book with tears to the extremities, but not affecting the text block, may have remainder mark or previous owner's name - GOOD PAPERBACK Standard-sized.

Softcover. Fine.; 8vo.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Very Good condition. No internal markings of any kind.; 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good+. Scholars' name to ffep (Mark Golden). Very light shelfwear else fine. ; 293 pages; Propertius (ca. 54 b. C. --ca. 2 b. C. ) was a Roman poet who composed four compelling books of elegies in the chaotic years surrounding Rome's transition from republic to empire. The first three of these books revolve mostly around a tormented love affair with a woman called Cynthia. The fourth book of poetry rests on more diverse subject matter and is notoriously the most opaque and elusive. In The Politics of Desire, Micaela Janan radically reassesses Propertius' last elegies, using contemporary psychoanalytic theory to illuminate these challenging texts. Janan finds that the upheaval of Rome's transformation to empire corresponds to the intellectually unsettled conditions of our own time, so that contemporary methodologies offer an uncannily suitable approach for understanding Propertius. In particular, she uses the work of Jacques Lacan, since it provides the best conceptual tools for examining the relation between political crisis and the struggles of the self, a theme that resonates in these difficult elegies. This book expands our understanding of an important Roman poet, and its innovative and sophisticated methodological approach makes a substantial contribution to feminist and psychoanalytic criticism. In addition, Janan addresses elegy's relationship to larger cultural questions, and broadens our understanding of the social crisis affecting Rome during the early empire.

Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. Very light shelfwear else fine. ; 293 pages; Propertius (ca. 54 b. C. --ca. 2 b. C. ) was a Roman poet who composed four compelling books of elegies in the chaotic years surrounding Rome's transition from republic to empire. The first three of these books revolve mostly around a tormented love affair with a woman called Cynthia. The fourth book of poetry rests on more diverse subject matter and is notoriously the most opaque and elusive. In The Politics of Desire, Micaela Janan radically reassesses Propertius' last elegies, using contemporary psychoanalytic theory to illuminate these challenging texts. Janan finds that the upheaval of Rome's transformation to empire corresponds to the intellectually unsettled conditions of our own time, so that contemporary methodologies offer an uncannily suitable approach for understanding Propertius. In particular, she uses the work of Jacques Lacan, since it provides the best conceptual tools for examining the relation between political crisis and the struggles of the self, a theme that resonates in these difficult elegies. This book expands our understanding of an important Roman poet, and its innovative and sophisticated methodological approach makes a substantial contribution to feminist and psychoanalytic criticism. In addition, Janan addresses elegy's relationship to larger cultural questions, and broadens our understanding of the social crisis affecting Rome during the early empire.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. xviii, 204pp. Very good hardcover in like dust-jacket. Very minimal wear to dust-jacket. Top edge of d/j bumped at front and rear. Original owner's signature on front-free end paper. Latin and English texts. Clean, bright, and tight.

Hardcover with dust jacket. G/VG. Penciling, previous owner's name. 204 pp.

Hardcover. Octavo; VG; white spine, purple lettering; dust jacket has general shelfwear, minor edgewear, soiling on front; boards strong, minor bumping on spine edges, minor soiling on rear; text block slightly age toned; xviii, 204pp. 1294302. Full-priced Rockville.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Purple cloth hardback. No jacket.

Hardback. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine.

23.0 x 15.0cms, 244pp very good+ paperback & cover Janan uses contemporary psychoanalytic theory to reassess Propertius's opaque and elusive 4th book of elergies.

Condition: Gut. XI, 244 Seiten / p. Aus der Bibliothek von Prof. Wolfgang Haase, langjährigem Herausgeber der ANRW und des International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT) / From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - sehr guter Zustand / very good condition - Propertius (ca. 54-ca. 2 b.c.e.) was a Roman poet who composed four compelling books of elegies in the chaotic years surrounding Romes transition from Republic to Empire. The first three of these books revolve around a tormented love affair with a woman called Cynthia. The fourth book of poetry rests on more diverse subject matter and is notoriously the most opaque and elusive. Micaela Janan radically reassesses Propertius' last elegies, using contemporary psychoanalytic theory to illuminate these challenging texts. ISBN 9780520223219 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 425 15,2 x 1,5 x 22,9 cm, Broschiert / Paperback.

Condition: as new. Berkeley : University of California Press, 2001. Paperback. 244 pp. - Propertius (ca. 54 b.c.--ca. 2 b.c.) was a Roman poet who composed four compelling books of elegies in the chaotic years surrounding Rome's transition from republic to empire. The first three of these books revolve mostly around a tormented love affair with a woman called Cynthia. The fourth book of poetry rests on more diverse subject matter and is notoriously the most opaque and elusive. In The Politics of Desire, Micaela Janan radically reassesses Propertius' last elegies, using contemporary psychoanalytic theory to illuminate these challenging texts. Janan finds that the upheaval of Rome's transformation to empire corresponds to the intellectually unsettled conditions of our own time, so that contemporary methodologies offer an uncannily suitable approach for understanding Propertius. In particular, she uses the work of Jacques Lacan, since it provides the best conceptual tools for examining the relation between political crisis and the struggles of the self, a theme that resonates in these difficult elegies. This book expands our understanding of an important Roman poet, and its innovative and sophisticated methodological approach makes a substantial contribution to feminist and psychoanalytic criticism. In addition, Janan addresses elegy's relationship to larger cultural questions, and broadens our understanding of the social crisis affecting Rome during the early empire. Condition : as new copy. ISBN 9780520223219. Keywords : CLASSICAL ANTIQUITY,

Condition: very good. Berkeley : University of California Press, c2000, Paperback. Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index. Contents : Theoretical preliminaries -- "Shadow of a doubt": framing the subject in the Gallus poems -- The ethics of evil: Arethusa to Lycotas -- "Beyond good and evil": Tarpeia and philosophy in the feminine -- The return of the dead: the Acanthis elegy -- "The book of revelation": Cynthia's truth -- Cynthia returns from Lanuvium -- Hercules in Rome -- The phenomenology of the spirits -- Dreaming Rome. Condition : very good copy. ISBN 9780520223219. Keywords : CLASSICAL ANTIQUITY,

Condition: as new. pbk 255pp an excellent clean tight unmarked copy as new.

First Edition. An exceptional copy; fine in an equally fine dw. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Literally as new. ; 244 pages; Subjects: Propertius, Sextus. Elegiae. Liber 4. Elegiac poetry, Latin--History and criticism. Psychoanalysis and literature--Rome. Desire in literature. Series: The Joan Palevsky imprint in classical literature. 1 Kg.

First Edition. An exceptional copy; fine in an equally fine dw. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Literally as new. ; 244 pages; Subjects: Propertius, Sextus. Elegiae. Liber 4. Elegiac poetry, Latin--History and criticism. Psychoanalysis and literature--Rome. Desire in literature. Series: The Joan Palevsky imprint in classical literature. 1 Kg.

Paperback or Softback. Condition: New. The Politics of Desire: Propertius IV 0.85. Book.

Condition: New.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 276 pages. Size: 8vo - otver 7¾" - 9¾" Tall.

Condition: Sehr gut. XVIII, 203 p. From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - Slightly rubbed jacket, staining on bottom edge, otherwise very good and clean. / Leicht beriebener Umschlag, Anschmutzung auf Fußschnitt, sonst sehr gut und sauber. - The poetry of the Late Roman Republican poet Gaius Valerius Catullus, a rich document of the human heart, is the earliest-known reasonably complete body of erotic verse in the West. Though approximately 116 poems survive, uncertainties about the condition of the fragmented manuscript and the narrative order of the poems make the Catullan text unusually problematic for the modern critic. Indeed, the poems can be arranged in a number of ways, making a multitude of different plots possible and frustrating the reader's desire for narrative closure. Micaela Janan contends that since unsatisfied desire structures both the experience of reading Catullus as well as its subject matter, critical interpretation of the text demands a "poetics of desire." She proposes an original and provocative feminist reading of Catullus, a reading informed by theories of consciousness as ancient as Plato and as contemporary as Freud and Lacan. Janan holds that traditional text theory achieves interpretive closure by idealizing a self-aware, autonomous, and concrete textual "persona." In such a view, even the most unexpected or bizarre conduct ought to be explainable in terms of this presumably stable core of consciousness. Thus the extraordinary variations in Catullus' sexualityincluding apparent shifts of gender identityhave led critics who seek a personality type that would account for the poet's behavior to speculate about his "bisexuality" or "effeminacy." Postmodern critical theory, narratology, and psychoanalysis, however, suggest a more flexible concept of the "subject" as a site through which a multitude of social, cultural, and unconscious forces move. Human consciousness, Janan contends, is inherently incomplete and in a continuous process of transformation. She argues that Catullus' gender transitions should be understood less as evidence of a conflicted sexuality than as a radical, poetic interrogation of the social construction of gender itself. The Late Roman Republic in which Catullus lived, Janan reminds us, was a time of profound social upheaval when political and cultural institutions that had persisted for centuries were rapidly breaking down a time not unlike our own. Catullus' poetry provides an unusually honest look at his culture and its contradictory representations of class, gender, and power. By bringing to the study of this major work of classical literature the themes of consciousness and desire dealt with in postmodern scholarship, Janan's book invites a new conversation among literary disciplines. - Micaela Janan is an assistant professor of classical studies at Duke University, where she teaches classical and comparative literature and literary theory. ISBN 0809317656 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 550 Original cloth with dust jacket in additional plastic.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 276pp; inscription on flyleaf.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust jacket is fully intact, only lightly rubbed at edges. All pages free from notes or highlighting. In good order overall.Publisher's note: "The poetry of the Late Roman Republican poet Gaius Valerius Catullus, a rich document of the human heart, is the earliest-known reasonably complete body of erotic verse in the West." "Though approximately 116 poems survive, uncertainties about the condition of the fragmented manuscript and the narrative order of the poems make the Catullan text unusually problematic for the modern critic. Indeed, the poems can be arranged in a number of ways, making a multitude of different plots possible and frustrating the reader's desire for narrative closure." "Micaela Janan contends that since unsatisfied desire structures both the experience of reading Catullus as well as its subject matter, critical interpretation of the text demands a "poetics of desire." She proposes an original and provocative feminist reading of Catullus, a reading informed by theories of consciousness as ancient as Plato and as contemporary as Freud and Lacan." "Janan holds that traditional text theory achieves interpretive closure by idealizing a self-aware, autonomous, and concrete textual "persona." In such a view, even the most unexpected or bizarre conduct ought to be explainable in terms of this presumably stable core of consciousness. Thus the extraordinary variations in Catullus' sexuality - including apparent shifts of gender identity - have led critics who seek a personality type that would account for the poet's behavior to speculate about his "bisexuality" or "effeminacy." "Postmodern critical theory, narratology, and psychoanalysis, however, suggest a more flexible concept of the "subject" as a site through which a multitude of social, cultural, and unconscious forces move. Human consciousness, Janan contends, is inherently incomplete and in a continuous process of transformation. She argues that Catullus' gender transitions should be understood less as evidence of a conflicted sexuality than as a radical, poetic interrogation of the social construction of gender itself." Size: 24.1 x 15.9 x 2.4 cm. 204 pp. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Literature & Literary; Love poetry, Latin; Narration (Rhetoric); Psychoanalysis and literature; Rhetoric, Ancient; Desire in literature; Rome (Empire); ISBN: 0809317656. ISBN/EAN: 9780809317653. Add. Inventory No: 231101HAD2-4110.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. xii, 276 pp. [ISBN: 978-0199556922] Hardbound in dustwrapper. A NEW COPY.

Condition: New. Buy with confidence! Book is in new, never-used condition 0.94.