Identification and Distance in Lucian’s Dialogues of the Courtesans : Subjects and Their Absences
Book chapter
La Valle Norman, Dawn. (2024). Identification and Distance in Lucian’s Dialogues of the Courtesans : Subjects and Their Absences. In In Goldhill, Simon (Ed.). The Cambridge Companion to Lucian pp. 297-317 Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009170406.014
Authors | La Valle Norman, Dawn |
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Editors | Goldhill, Simon |
Abstract | This chapter explores the interplay between identification and distance that Lucian sets up for his readers in relationship to the speaking characters in the Dialogues of the Courtesans. While readers are, at times, invited to identify with the plights of these ‘others’ as partners in restrictive power structures, at other times, the otherness of the courtesans is emphasised through female verbal markers, female-specific cults, and women-only sexuality. Again and again, the subjectivity of the courtesan is offered to the reader, only to be withdrawn from their grasp. And, in fact, in its current form, the collection begins with a soldier and ends with a virgin – the courtesan managing to slip away. Lucian’s play with the courtesan’s subjectivity leaves his readers full of suspicions about intentional misdirection, both by the characters within the stories and by the author Lucian himself. |
Keywords | Dialogues of the Courtesans; prostitution; subjectivity; lesbian; matronymics |
Page range | 297-317 |
Year | 2024 |
Book title | The Cambridge Companion to Lucian |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Place of publication | United Kingdom |
ISBN | 9781009170406 |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009170406.014 |
Web address (URL) | https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/cambridge-companion-to-lucian/identification-and-distance-in-lucians-dialogues-of-the-courtesans-subjects-and-their-absences/A08A31A928EA660F079FBB5913566C26 |
Funder | Australian Research Council (ARC) |
Open access | Published as green open access |
Research or scholarly | Research |
Author's accepted manuscript | License All rights reserved File Access Level Open |
Publisher's version | License All rights reserved File Access Level Controlled |
Output status | Published |
Publication dates | |
Online | 07 Nov 2024 |
Publication process dates | |
Accepted | Nov 2024 |
Deposited | 20 Dec 2024 |
ARC Funded Research | This output has been funded, wholly or partially, under the Australian Research Council Act 2001 |
Grant ID | DE220100854 |
Additional information | © Cambridge University Press & Assessment 2024. |
This research was supported by the Australian Research Council’s Discovery Early Career Research Award, “The Female Voice in Ancient Philosophical Dialogues (DE220100854). | |
This Author's version is free to view and download for private research and study only. Not for re-distribution or re-use. © Dawn LaValle Norman |
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