عنوان

Sexing the world :

شابک

1400852463

شابک

9781400852468

شابک اشتباه

0691163227

شابک اشتباه

9780691163222

عنوان اصلي

Sexing the world :

نام عام مواد

[Book]

ساير اطلاعات عنواني

grammatical gender and biological sex in ancient Rome /

نام نخستين پديدآور

Anthony Corbeill.

محل نشرو پخش و غیره

Oxford :

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

Princeton University Press,

تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره

[2015]

تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره

©2015

نام خاص و کميت اثر

1 online resource

متن يادداشت

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

متن يادداشت

Latin grammatical gender is not arbitrary -- Roman scholars on grammatical gender and biological sex -- Roman poets on grammatical gender -- Poetic play with sex and gender -- Androgynous gods in archaic Rome -- Appendix to chapter 4: male/female pairs of deities -- The prodigious hermaphrodite.

بدون عنوان

0

متن يادداشت

From the moment a child in ancient Rome began to speak Latin, the surrounding world became populated with objects possessing grammatical gender-masculine eyes (oculi), feminine trees (arbores), neuter bodies (corpora). Sexing the World surveys the many ways in which grammatical gender enabled Latin speakers to organize aspects of their society into sexual categories, and how this identification of grammatical gender with biological sex affected Roman perceptions of Latin poetry, divine power, and the human hermaphrodite. Beginning with the ancient grammarians, Anthony Corbeill examines how these scholars used the gender of nouns to identify the sex of the object being signified, regardless of whether that object was animate or inanimate. This informed the Roman poets who, for a time, changed at whim the grammatical gender for words as seemingly lifeless as "dust" (pulvis) or "tree bark" (cortex). Corbeill then applies the idea of fluid grammatical gender to the basic tenets of Roman religion and state politics. He looks at how the ancients tended to construct Rome's earliest divinities as related male and female pairs, a tendency that waned in later periods. An analogous change characterized the dual-sexed hermaphrodite, whose sacred and political significance declined as the republican government became an autocracy. Throughout, Corbeill shows that the fluid boundaries of sex and gender became increasingly fixed into opposing and exclusive categories. Sexing the World contributes to our understanding of the power of language to shape human perception.

منبع سفارش / آدرس اشتراک

JSTOR

شماره انبار

22573/ctt86chpw

عنوان

Sexing the world

شماره استاندارد بين المللي کتاب و موسيقي

9780691163222

موضوع مستند نشده

Gender identity in literature.

موضوع مستند نشده

Latin language-- Gender.

موضوع مستند نشده

Latin literature-- History and criticism.

موضوع مستند نشده

Gender identity in literature.

موضوع مستند نشده

HISTORY-- Ancient-- Rome.

موضوع مستند نشده

Latin language-- Gender.

موضوع مستند نشده

Latin literature.

موضوع مستند نشده

LITERARY CRITICISM-- Ancient & Classical.

موضوع مستند نشده

HIS002020

موضوع مستند نشده

LAN009000

موضوع مستند نشده

LIT-- 004190

شماره

ويراست

شماره رده

نشانه اثر

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Corbeill, Anthony,1960-

تاريخ عمليات

20200822181323.0

قواعد فهرست نويسي ( بخش توصيفي )

pn

نام الکترونيکي

نوع ماده

[Book]

تكميل شده

Y