Ovid's Poetics of Illusion
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- Author: Philip Hardie, University of Cambridge
- Date Published: January 2007
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521030922
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Ovid's poetry is haunted obsessively by a sense both of the living fullness of the texts and of the emptiness of these 'insubstantial pageants'. This major study touches on the whole of Ovid's output, from the Amores to the exile poetry, and is an overarching treatment of illusionism and the textual conjuring of presence in the corpus. Modern critical and theoretical approaches, accompanied by close readings of individual passages, examine the topic from the points of view of poetics and rhetoric, aesthetics, the psychology of desire, philosophy, religion and politics. There are also case studies of the reception of Ovid's poetics of illusion in Renaissance and modern literature and art. The book will interest students and scholars of Latin and later European literatures. All foreign languages are accompanied by translations.
Read more- A major study of one of the most important ancient poets
- Includes substantial discussions of Ovid's influence on later European literature and art
- The author is a leading authority on Latin poetry
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'… a book produced in exemplary fashion by Cambridge University Press, and which constantly sent me back to read more extended passages of the poet.' Notes and Queries
See more reviews'… this book … should be in the hands not only of anyone interested in Ovid, but of anyone interested in ancient, or modern, poetics as well.' Journal of Roman Studies
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- Date Published: January 2007
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521030922
- length: 376 pages
- dimensions: 228 x 152 x 23 mm
- weight: 0.558kg
- contains: 12 b/w illus.
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
List of illustrations
Acknowledgements
1. Introduction
2. Impossible objects of desire
3. Death, desire and monuments
4. The Heroides
5. Narcissus: the mirror of the text
6. Pygmalion: art and illusion
7. Absent presences of language
8. Conjugal conjurings
9. The exile poetry
10. Ovid recalled in the modern novel
Bibliography
Index of modern authors
Index of passages discussed
General index.
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