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Publications of Micaela W. Janan :recent first alphabetical combined listing:
%% Books @book{fds290453, Author = {Janan, MW}, Title = {"When the Lamp Is Shattered": Desire and Narrative in Catullus}, Publisher = {Southern Illinois University Press}, Year = {1994}, Key = {fds290453} } @book{fds290454, Author = {Janan, MW}, Title = {The Politics of Desire: Propertius IV}, Publisher = {University of California Press}, Year = {2001}, Key = {fds290454} } @book{fds290455, Author = {Janan, M}, Title = {Reflections in a Serpent's Eye: Thebes in Ovid's Metamorphoses}, Pages = {1-288}, Publisher = {Oxford University Press}, Year = {2010}, Month = {February}, ISBN = {9780199556922}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199556922.001.0001}, Abstract = {Ovid's extraordinary story of Thebes' founding and bloody unravelling spans Books 2 and 3 of his epic poem, the Metamorphoses. His bizarre refractions of the well-ordered community mirror Ovid's own Rome and the mythohistory of its origins, most particularly as framed in Vergil's Aeneid. The Aeneid has regularly been read as, demonstrating how and why Rome will stride forward into history and an 'empire without end'. This book uses the psychoanalytic theory of Freud and Lacan to argue that The Metamorphoses' strangely fantastical surface reflects what is already inherently perverse in that master-narrative and discloses its internal contradictions. Ovid's Thebes features supernatural transformations, perverse fascinations, and violent end: Actaeon turned deer and the victim of his own hounds, Narcissus fatally captivated by his own image, Pentheus ripped apart by his mother and aunt. Ovid's reflections on how and why Thebes comes together-and how it comes unstuck-sceptically interrogate not only the existing (Roman) political order, claimed asiasting truth, but also the very possibility of organizing any polity into a harmonious, organically unified, lasting institution. Ovid thus poses doubts and questions crucial to the whole epic genre and its stress on collective identity as a function of a particular city-state. His Metamorphoses probes the logical principles of the ordered human community-its cohesion, identity, and governance-revealing a hidden bond between the epic Doomed City (Troy, Thebes, Carthage) and the City of Manifest Destiny (Rome). In Ovid's 'tale of two cities' each logically defines and suppors the other. By asking, 'What does it mean to be a polity? a citizen of a polity?', Ovid poses questions centred upon the concept of identity. His Theban cycle thus asks even more radically, 'What is identity? What shapes it? What changes it?' To explicate Ovid's critique of epic nationalism and identity, a series of close readings of episodes from Books 3 and 4 draws upon psychoanalysis as a body of thought devoted to unfolding just how an unconscious constantly subverts notions of individual and collective selfhood. Psychoanalysis offers the conceptual basis for seeing the questions Ovid's Thebes inspires as facets of one problematic, revealing the singularity of Ovid's foundation-tale as more rich and complex than previously appreciated.}, Doi = {10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199556922.001.0001}, Key = {fds290455} } %% Papers Published @article{fds290462, Author = {Janan, MW}, Title = {The Pen and the Phallus, or, `Eros by Any Other Name...'}, Journal = {Philological Association of the Pacific Coast, Santa Barbara, CA}, Year = {1983}, Key = {fds290462} } @article{fds290463, Author = {Janan, MW}, Title = {New Twine in Old Shuttles: Women Weaving Rebellion in Metamorphoses IV}, Journal = {Philological Association of the Pacific Coast, Santa Cruz, CA}, Year = {1985}, Key = {fds290463} } @article{fds290465, Author = {Janan, MW}, Title = {`Stop Making Sense': Drawing the Line(s) in Catullus 68}, Journal = {Utah Academy of Arts and Sciences, Logan, UT}, Year = {1989}, Key = {fds290465} } @article{fds290467, Author = {Janan, MW}, Title = {Double Trouble, or, How Lacan Invented the Anxiety of Influence for Ovid: A Reading of the Caunus/Byblis Tale in Ovid's Metamorphoses}, Journal = {University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill}, Year = {1991}, Key = {fds290467} } @article{fds290468, Author = {Janan, MW}, Title = {'Shadow of a Doubt': Framing the Subject in Propertius' Gallus-poems}, Journal = {American Philological Association, Washington, D.C.}, Year = {1993}, Key = {fds290468} } @article{fds290469, Author = {Janan, MW}, Title = {Changing the Subject: Hercules and the Interpretation of Catullus 68}, Journal = {Classical Association of the Middle West and South, Atlanta, GA}, Year = {1994}, Key = {fds290469} } @article{fds290470, Author = {Janan, MW}, Title = {Hercules in Rome: Propertius 4.9}, Journal = {Classical Association of the Middle West and South, Southern Section, Chapel Hill, NC}, Year = {1994}, Key = {fds290470} } @article{fds290471, Author = {Janan, MW}, Title = {The Phenomenology of the Spirits: The Cornelia Elegy (Propertius}, Journal = {American Philological Association, San Diego, CA}, Year = {1995}, Key = {fds290471} } @article{fds290472, Author = {Janan, MW}, Title = {Infidelities: (Un)making Belief in Propertius 4.8 (the Lanuvium Elegy)}, Journal = {American Philological Association, New York, NY}, Year = {1996}, Key = {fds290472} } @article{fds290473, Author = {Janan, MW}, Title = {Arethusa to Lycotas: The Metaphysics of Decadence}, Journal = {Classical Association of the Middle West and South, Charlottesville, VA}, Year = {1998}, Key = {fds290473} } @article{fds290474, Author = {Janan, MW}, Title = {Speaking as (the Ghost of) a Woman: Acanthis as the 'Other Voice' of Prop. 4.5}, Journal = {American Philological Association, Washington, D.C.}, Year = {1998}, Key = {fds290474} } @article{fds290475, Author = {Janan, MW}, Title = {The Parallax View: Arethusa Writes (to) Lycotas}, Journal = {American Philological Association, Dallas, TX}, Year = {1999}, Key = {fds290475} } @article{fds290476, Author = {Janan, MW}, Title = {A Snake in the Glass: Pentheus Fashions Thebes (Met. 3.531-63)}, Journal = {Classical Association of the Middle West and South, Austin, TX}, Year = {2002}, Key = {fds290476} } @article{fds290461, Author = {Janan, MW}, Title = {'That Way Madness lies': The Outrageous Father of Ovid’s Thebes}, Journal = {Classical Association, Manchester, UK,}, Year = {2004}, Key = {fds290461} } @article{fds290477, Author = {Janan, MW}, Title = {Delusion and Desire in the Fatherland: The Law in Ovid’s Thebes}, Journal = {American Philological Association, San Francisco, CA}, Year = {2004}, Key = {fds290477} } @article{fds305279, Author = {Janan, MW}, Title = {'Our Father, Who Art My Lover': Psychoanalysis and Paternity in Statius’ Silvae}, Year = {2014}, Month = {September}, Key = {fds305279} } @article{fds305270, Author = {Janan, MW}, Title = {Desire and Narrative in Catullus 11 and 51}, Year = {2015}, Month = {March}, Key = {fds305270} } @article{fds305271, Author = {Janan, MW}, Title = {The Labyrinth and the Mirror: Incest and Influence in Metamorphoses 9}, Year = {2015}, Month = {March}, Key = {fds305271} } @article{fds305272, Author = {Janan, MW}, Title = {The Politics of Interpretation: Judging the Hermaphrodite}, Year = {2015}, Month = {March}, Key = {fds305272} } @article{fds305273, Author = {Janan, MW}, Title = {There Beneath the Roman Ruin Where the Purple Flowers Grow: Ovid's Minyeides and the Feminine Imagination}, Year = {2015}, Month = {March}, Key = {fds305273} } @article{fds305274, Author = {Janan, MW}, Title = {Beyond Good and Evil: Tarpeia & Philosophy in the Feminine}, Year = {2015}, Month = {March}, Key = {fds305274} } @article{fds305275, Author = {Janan, MW}, Title = {Refashioning Hercules: Propertius 4.9}, Year = {2015}, Month = {March}, Key = {fds305275} } @article{fds305276, Author = {Janan, MW}, Title = {Rome's Mirror Stage: Ovid, the Classics and Reflective Identity}, Year = {2015}, Month = {March}, Key = {fds305276} } @article{fds305277, Author = {Janan, MW}, Title = {Narcissus on the Text: Psychoanalysis, Exegesis, Ethics}, Year = {2015}, Month = {March}, Key = {fds305277} } %% Articles @article{fds290464, Author = {Janan, MW}, Title = {Desire and Narrative in Catullus 11 and 51}, Journal = {Utah Academy of Arts and Sciences, St. George, UT}, Year = {1988}, Key = {fds290464} } @article{fds290479, Author = {Janan, M}, Title = {The Book of Good Love? Design Versus Desire in Metamorphoses 10}, Journal = {Ramus}, Volume = {17}, Number = {2}, Pages = {110-137}, Publisher = {Cambridge University Press (CUP)}, Year = {1988}, ISSN = {0048-671X}, url = {http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:A1988CX08900002&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=47d3190e77e5a3a53558812f597b0b92}, Abstract = {<jats:p>Much attention has been paid recently to the role of individual narrators within the <jats:italic>Metamorphoses</jats:italic>. Whereas it was once considered adequate to attribute the characteristics of the poem solely to Ovid as narrator, a number of critics have now drawn correlations between the development of certain tales and the character of the narrators to whom they are attributed within the poem.</jats:p><jats:p>Book 10 calls particular attention to itself in this regard. Orpheus is its primary narrator: after losing Eurydice to death for the second and final time, he composes a song that recalls ‘boys beloved by the gods and young girls struck by unsanctioned passion’ (10.152-54) which occupies the major portion of the book. However, the marked dissonance between Orpheus' announced program and what actually unfolds pricks the reader's curiosity. The bard's initial criteria for choosing material implicitly condemn female passion and celebrate pederasty — an understandable, if extreme, reaction on the part of a man who has just been badly hurt by his passion for a woman. But of the seven stories that follow, only two concern divine pederasty; one of these ends unhappily. The subject of a third tale (Venus' love for Adonis) radically stretches the sense of ‘boy-love’. A fourth tale — of Pygmalion and his statue — does not fit either category of love.</jats:p>}, Doi = {10.1017/s0048671x0000312x}, Key = {fds290479} } @article{fds290466, Author = {Janan, MW}, Title = {The Politics of Interpretation: Judging the Hermaphrodite}, Journal = {American Philological Association, Boston, MA}, Year = {1989}, Key = {fds290466} } @article{fds290480, Author = {Janan, MW}, Title = {The Labyrinth and the Mirror: Incest and Influence in Metamorphoses 9}, Journal = {Arethusa}, Volume = {24}, Pages = {239-256}, Year = {1991}, Key = {fds290480} } @article{fds290481, Author = {Janan, M}, Title = {"There beneath the Roman Ruin Where the Purple Flowers Grow": Ovid's Minyeides and the Feminine Imagination}, Journal = {The American Journal of Philology}, Volume = {115}, Number = {3}, Pages = {427-427}, Publisher = {JSTOR}, Year = {1994}, ISSN = {0002-9475}, url = {http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:A1994PF85200008&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=47d3190e77e5a3a53558812f597b0b92}, Doi = {10.2307/295368}, Key = {fds290481} } @article{fds290438, Author = {Janan, MW}, Title = {Refashioning Hercules: Propertius 4.9}, Journal = {Helios: a journal devoted to critical and methodological studies of classical culture, literature, and society}, Volume = {25}, Number = {1}, Pages = {65-77}, Year = {1998}, Month = {Spring}, ISSN = {1935-0228}, Key = {fds290438} } @article{fds290460, Author = {Janan, M}, Title = {"Beyond Good and Evil": Tarpeia and Philosophy in the Feminine}, Journal = {The Classical World}, Volume = {92}, Number = {5}, Pages = {429-429}, Publisher = {JSTOR}, Year = {1999}, ISSN = {0009-8418}, url = {http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000081285300004&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=47d3190e77e5a3a53558812f597b0b92}, Doi = {10.2307/4352313}, Key = {fds290460} } @article{fds290439, Author = {Janan, MW}, Title = {The Muse Unruly and Dead: Acanthis in Propertius 4.5}, Pages = {187-206}, Booktitle = {Cultivating the Muse - Struggles for Power and Inspiration in Classical Literature}, Publisher = {Oxford University Press}, Editor = {Spentzou, E and Fowler, D}, Year = {2002}, Key = {fds290439} } @article{fds290456, Author = {Janan, M}, Title = {The snake sheds its skin:: Pentheus (re)imagines Thebes (Reflections on Ovidian borrowings from the 'Aeneid')}, Journal = {CLASSICAL PHILOLOGY}, Volume = {99}, Number = {2}, Pages = {130-146}, Year = {2004}, ISSN = {0009-837X}, url = {http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000222741500002&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=47d3190e77e5a3a53558812f597b0b92}, Doi = {10.1086/423859}, Key = {fds290456} } @article{fds290450, Author = {Janan, MW}, Title = {Was the Aeneid Augustan propaganda?}, Journal = {History in Dispute}, Volume = {20}, Pages = {189-194}, Editor = {Platter, C and Miller, PA}, Year = {2005}, Month = {March}, Key = {fds290450} } @article{fds290451, Author = {Janan, M}, Title = {In the Name of the Father: Ovid’s Theban Law}, Pages = {102-137}, Booktitle = {The Sites of Rome: Time, Space, Memory}, Publisher = {Oxford University Press}, Editor = {Larmour, DHJ and Spencer, D}, Year = {2007}, Key = {fds290451} } @article{fds305280, Author = {Janan, MW}, Title = {’In the Name of the Father’: Ovid’s Theban Law}, Pages = {102-137}, Booktitle = {The Sites of Rome: Time, Space, Memory}, Publisher = {Oxford University Press}, Editor = {Larmour, DHJ and Spencer, D}, Year = {2007}, Key = {fds305280} } @article{fds290478, Author = {Janan, M}, Title = {Narcissus on the text: Psychoanalysis, exegesis, ethics}, Journal = {Phoenix}, Volume = {61}, Number = {3-4}, Pages = {286-295}, Year = {2007}, Month = {September}, ISSN = {0031-8299}, url = {http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000258225900006&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=47d3190e77e5a3a53558812f597b0b92}, Abstract = {Bringing to bear the concepts of Lou Andreas-Salomé,Julia Kristeva, and Jacques Lacan upon Ovid's Narcissus tale (Met 3.339-510) helps us see how the infatuated boy's dénouement makes the irrational intrude upon rational discourse in such a way as to rock unexamined assumptions about the autonomous self and its encounter with the possibility of meaning in the act of reading signs. ©The Classical Association of Canada/La Sociét́ canadienne des études classiques 2008.}, Key = {fds290478} } @article{fds305281, Author = {Janan, MW}, Title = {Lacanian Psychoanalytic Theory and Roman Love Elegy}, Pages = {375-389}, Booktitle = {The Blackwell Companion to Roman Love Elegy}, Publisher = {Wiley Blackwell}, Editor = {Gold, B}, Year = {2012}, Key = {fds305281} } @article{fds320866, Author = {Janan, M}, Title = {Lacanian Psychoanalytic Theory and Roman Love Elegy}, Pages = {373-389}, Booktitle = {A Companion to Roman Love Elegy}, Publisher = {WILEY-BLACKWELL}, Year = {2012}, Month = {March}, ISBN = {9781444330373}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9781118241165.ch23}, Doi = {10.1002/9781118241165.ch23}, Key = {fds320866} } @article{fds305278, Author = {Janan, M}, Title = {The Father's Tragedy: Assessing Paternity in Statius, Silvae 2.1}, Journal = {TAPA: Transactions of the American Philological Association}, Volume = {150}, Number = {1}, Pages = {181-230}, Publisher = {Johns Hopkins University Press}, Year = {2020}, Month = {June}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/apa.2020.0002}, Abstract = {Silvae 2.1 mourns Glaucias, libertus-foster child of Atedius Melior. Statius’s allusions to Vergil’s Aeneid examine fatherhood as a model for understanding other hierarchical relationships. Statius probes Vergil’s implied justification of Augustus’s rule as patria potestas via the princeps’ mythical descent from Rome’s founding father, Aeneas. Writing under Domitian—no Julio-Claudian—Statius scrutinizes an imperial authority still conceptualized as patriarchy. By substituting a freed slave-child, a bereaved old man and possibly an assassin’s victim for Vergil’s heroic vessels of Rome’s future, Aeneas and Anchises, Silvae 2.1 traces how the Aeneid’s logic of patrilineal superiority infantilizes and imperils even élite imperial subjects.}, Doi = {10.1353/apa.2020.0002}, Key = {fds305278} } %% Reviews @article{fds290442, Author = {Janan, M}, Title = {Review of 100 Years of Homosexuality, by David Halperin}, Journal = {Women’s Classical Caucus Newsletter}, Volume = {17}, Pages = {40-43}, Year = {1991}, Key = {fds290442} } @article{fds290443, Author = {Janan, MW}, Title = {Review of Torture and Truth, by Page Dubois}, Journal = {Ancient Philosophy}, Volume = {14}, Pages = {217-222}, Year = {1994}, Key = {fds290443} } @article{fds290444, Author = {Janan, MW}, Title = {Review of Lyric Texts and Lyric Consciousness, by Paul Allen Miller}, Journal = {Classical Outlook}, Volume = {74.1}, Pages = {40-42}, Year = {1996}, Key = {fds290444} } @article{fds290445, Author = {Janan, MW}, Title = {Review of Catullan Provocations, by William Fitzgerald}, Journal = {Phoenix}, Volume = {50.3-4}, Pages = {344-345}, Year = {1996}, Key = {fds290445} } @article{fds290446, Author = {Janan, MW}, Title = {Review of Powerplay in Tibullus, by Parshia Lee-Stecum}, Journal = {Bryn Mawr Classical Review}, Volume = {99.6.6}, Publisher = {Bryn Mawr College}, Year = {1999}, ISSN = {1055-7660}, url = {http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/1999/1999-06-06.html}, Key = {fds290446} } @article{fds290447, Author = {Janan, M}, Title = {Review of Roman Propertius and the Reinvention of Elegy, by Jeri Blair DeBrohun}, Journal = {American Journal of Philology}, Volume = {125}, Pages = {622-626}, Year = {2004}, Key = {fds290447} } @article{fds290448, Author = {Janan, MW}, Title = {Review of The Roman Mistress by Maria Wyke}, Journal = {Classical Journal}, Volume = {100}, Pages = {201-203}, Year = {2004}, Key = {fds290448} } @article{fds290449, Author = {Janan, MW}, Title = {Readers and Writers in Ovid’s Heroides, by Effrossini Spentzou}, Journal = {Classical Philology}, Volume = {99}, Number = {4}, Pages = {381-85}, Year = {2004}, Key = {fds290449} } @article{fds290457, Author = {Janan, M}, Title = {Review of Ovid's poetics of illusion}, Journal = {CLASSICAL WORLD}, Volume = {97}, Number = {2}, Pages = {216-217}, Publisher = {JSTOR}, Year = {2004}, ISSN = {0009-8418}, url = {http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=000189356900015&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=47d3190e77e5a3a53558812f597b0b92}, Doi = {10.2307/4352859}, Key = {fds290457} } @article{fds290459, Author = {Janan, M}, Title = {Review of Readers and writers in Ovid's "Heroides": Transgressions of genre and gender.}, Journal = {CLASSICAL PHILOLOGY}, Volume = {99}, Number = {4}, Pages = {381-385}, Year = {2004}, Month = {October}, ISSN = {0009-837X}, url = {http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=000227961300007&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=47d3190e77e5a3a53558812f597b0b92}, Doi = {10.1086/429944}, Key = {fds290459} } @article{fds290458, Author = {Janan, M}, Title = {Review of OVID'S LOVERS: DESIRE, DIFFERENCE AND THE POETIC IMAGINATION}, Journal = {PHOENIX-THE JOURNAL OF THE CLASSICAL ASSOCIATION OF CANADA}, Volume = {63}, Number = {1-2}, Pages = {186-188}, Year = {2009}, ISSN = {0031-8299}, url = {http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=000273790600020&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=47d3190e77e5a3a53558812f597b0b92}, Key = {fds290458} } @article{fds290437, Author = {Janan, M}, Title = {AUGUSTAN ELEGY. (H.H.) Review. Hunter Gardner. Gendering Time in Augustan Love Elegy. Pp. x + 285.Oxford:Oxford University Press,2013. Cased, £63, US$110. ISBN:978-0-19-965239-6.}, Journal = {The Classical Review}, Volume = {64}, Number = {02}, Pages = {463-465}, Publisher = {Cambridge University Press (CUP)}, Year = {2014}, Month = {October}, ISSN = {0009-840X}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0009840X14001061}, Doi = {10.1017/S0009840X14001061}, Key = {fds290437} }