McAuley, Mairead;
(2022)
Dextrae iungere dextram: the affective dynamics of touch in Aeneid.
Vergilius
, 67
pp. 239-274.
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Abstract
This article explores the tactile poetics of the Aeneid and their potential for feminist readings of the poem. From Amata, to Dido, and Venus, tactility is connected to volatile feminine bodies and irrational, pathologized emotions. But Vergil also uses touch as a device for the intimate transmission of affect between poem and a reader, a way of engaging our bodily senses and “touching” our minds (mentem tangere). Yet the postcritical focus on affect has often been critiqued as lacking feminist political bite. Does reading the Aeneid for sensual and affective intimacy preclude coolly detached critique of its power structures?
| Type: | Article |
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| Title: | Dextrae iungere dextram: the affective dynamics of touch in Aeneid |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| Publisher version: | https://www.vergiliansociety.org/vergilius-journal... |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the version of record. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher's terms and conditions. |
| UCL classification: | UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Arts and Humanities UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Dept of Greek and Latin UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10148787 |
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