International audienceHow are we to understand Martial’s satirical and sexual epigrams? And, especially, how are we to perceive the humour in these caricatures, which are so coarse and violent? This essay focuses on a particular figure, that of the Philaenis character, a woman whom Martial twice characterises as a tribas. The character is portrayed as performing various types of activities (touching on sex, sports, and food).This study shows that a reading relying too heavily on moral considerations may keep us from perceiving an important aspect of Martial’s humour. If, following the work of M. Foucault and D. Halperin, we take into account the appropriate categories for a society ‘before sexuality’, and stop focusing on sexuality, we can ...
National audienceCette étude, qui repose sur l'analyse des rapports de correspondance iconique entre...
The humour of the flesh. Jokes and puns in the images and glosses of the Coutumes de Toulouse. In a...
In French comic quoted forms mechanisms of comism connected with taboo can be defined by means of se...
International audienceThis essay explores Martial’s Priapic humor, focusing on those epigrams featur...
International audienceThese papers examine ways in which humor can, in different cultural contexts, ...
Marcus Valerius Martialis (c.40-104 CE) was one of the wittiest and dirtiest of the Latin poets. Th...
Recent studies regarding multiple sexualities in Greek and Roman Antiquity (or at least practices th...
Le Chevalier Des Touches is a novel in which the notions of sexual gender and literary genre are hig...
Representations of sexual violence in medieval literature are few, but not insignificant. Although h...
This essay studies the connection between sex and power, humor and impotence in the work of female h...
International audienceIn the True Stories of Lucian of Samosata, the issues of gender and sexuality ...
253 p.Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1981.Although much work has been d...
International audienceIn his Epigrams, Martial often has someone use a word whose meaning does not f...
International audienceThe epigrammatic genre is renowned for its comic potential and for the ludic p...
International audienceEpics are traditionally considered a serious genre. However, many playful elem...
National audienceCette étude, qui repose sur l'analyse des rapports de correspondance iconique entre...
The humour of the flesh. Jokes and puns in the images and glosses of the Coutumes de Toulouse. In a...
In French comic quoted forms mechanisms of comism connected with taboo can be defined by means of se...
International audienceThis essay explores Martial’s Priapic humor, focusing on those epigrams featur...
International audienceThese papers examine ways in which humor can, in different cultural contexts, ...
Marcus Valerius Martialis (c.40-104 CE) was one of the wittiest and dirtiest of the Latin poets. Th...
Recent studies regarding multiple sexualities in Greek and Roman Antiquity (or at least practices th...
Le Chevalier Des Touches is a novel in which the notions of sexual gender and literary genre are hig...
Representations of sexual violence in medieval literature are few, but not insignificant. Although h...
This essay studies the connection between sex and power, humor and impotence in the work of female h...
International audienceIn the True Stories of Lucian of Samosata, the issues of gender and sexuality ...
253 p.Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1981.Although much work has been d...
International audienceIn his Epigrams, Martial often has someone use a word whose meaning does not f...
International audienceThe epigrammatic genre is renowned for its comic potential and for the ludic p...
International audienceEpics are traditionally considered a serious genre. However, many playful elem...
National audienceCette étude, qui repose sur l'analyse des rapports de correspondance iconique entre...
The humour of the flesh. Jokes and puns in the images and glosses of the Coutumes de Toulouse. In a...
In French comic quoted forms mechanisms of comism connected with taboo can be defined by means of se...