Loving Writing/Ovid's Amores
- Author: Ellen Oliensis, University of California, Berkeley
- Date Published: July 2019
- availability: Available
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9781108482301
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This book offers a fresh reading of the Amores centered on the aggressive, opportunistic, endlessly fluent, pleasure-seeking character, the poet-lover of the collection, here called Naso. Resisting the scholarly tendency to segregate the poet from the lover, Ellen Oliensis teases out the compromising affiliations between Naso's most 'poetic' performances and his seamy erotic adventures and shows that his need to write the script of his own subjection, far from delegitimizing his desire, tallies with other features of his generally masochistic profile. The book concludes with an exploration of the masochistic pleasures of the elegiac writing project as such, thereby effectively re-uniting Ovid with his surrogate within the collection.
Read more- Provides the first full-scale reading of Ovid's Amores for over two decades
- Presents an alternative approach to the Amores, opening up new ways of reading Latin poetry
- Clearly and engagingly written with all Latin translated, making the book accessible for readers of all levels
Awards
- Winner, 2021 Charles J. Goodwin Award of Merit, Society for Classical Studies
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- Date Published: July 2019
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9781108482301
- length: 208 pages
- dimensions: 235 x 158 x 15 mm
- weight: 0.45kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Prelude
1. Introducing Naso
2. The poet's heart
3. The lover's art
4. Loving writing.
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