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The three major Roman love poets - Tibullus, Propertius and Ovid -
are celebrated for the ways in which they used social and
historical contexts, as well as a highly developed sense of place
and landscape, to inform their explorations of passion and desire.
These writers pursued both men and women, and expressed romantic
attachments to the bucolic countryside as well as to the city of
Rome. At the same time, they initiated a vibrant exchange with
other genres and authors, and explored the art of writing as much
as the experience of love itself. This new and attractive survey of
a genre that is often called elegy - because of its metre -
discusses the poets and their writings against the turbulent
backdrop of the Augustan age (31 BCE-14 CE). It examines the
literary origins of Latin elegy, highlights the poets' key themes
and traces their reception by later writers and readers.
Introducing the chief Latin elegists, as well as these poets' main
sources of inspiration (Catullus, Cornelius Gallus and earlier
Greek elegists like Euphorion of Chalcis), the book shows that love
elegy is the defining genre of Roman poetry.
This is the first book in English to trace the fascinating and
tragic history of the Moscow State Yiddish Theater, founded in 1919
and liquidated by the Soviet government in 1949. Since the
conventional view of the fate of Jews in Soviet Russia is that from
the beginning, the Soviet state pursued policies aimed at stamping
out Jewish culture, it is surprising to learn that from the 1920s
through World War II, secular Yiddish culture was actively promoted
and Yiddish cultural institutions thrived, supported by the Soviet
government, albeit for its own propaganda purposes. Drawing from
newly available archives, Jeffrey Veidlinger uses the dramatic
story of the Moscow State Yiddish Theater, the premiere secular
Jewish cultural institution of the Soviet era, to demonstrate how
Jewish writers and artists were able to promote Jewish national
culture within the confines of Soviet nationality policies. He
shows how a stellar group of artists, writers, choreographers,
directors, and actors led by Solomon Michaels brought to life
shtetl fables, biblical heroes, Israelite lore, exilic laments, and
dilemmas of contemporary life under the guise of conventional
socialist realism before the theater and many of its principal
figures fell victim to Stalinist antisemitism and xenophobia after
World War II. Enriched by rare photographs of the theater's artists
and performances, The Moscow State Yiddish Theater brings to life a
complex period in the history and culture of Soviet Jewry.
The three major Roman love poets - Tibullus, Propertius and Ovid -
are celebrated for the ways in which they used social and
historical contexts, as well as a highly developed sense of place
and landscape, to inform their explorations of passion and desire.
These writers pursued both men and women, and expressed romantic
attachments to the bucolic countryside as well as to the city of
Rome. At the same time, they initiated a vibrant exchange with
other genres and authors, and explored the art of writing as much
as the experience of love itself. This new and attractive survey of
a genre that is often called elegy - because of its metre -
discusses the poets and their writings against the turbulent
backdrop of the Augustan age (31 BCE-14 CE). It examines the
literary origins of Latin elegy, highlights the poets' key themes
and traces their reception by later writers and readers.
Introducing the chief Latin elegists, as well as these poets' main
sources of inspiration (Catullus, Cornelius Gallus and earlier
Greek elegists like Euphorion of Chalcis), the book shows that love
elegy is the defining genre of Roman poetry.
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