Freud''s Rome - Psychoanalysis and Latin Poetry

Informationen zum Autor Ellen Oliensis is Professor of Classics at the University of California, Berkeley. She has published essays in various journals and collections on a range of Latin poets, including Virgil, Horace, and Ovid. Her first book, Horace and the Rhetoric of Authority, was published by Cambridge University Press in 1998. Klappentext Examines the role of psychoanalysis within Latin literary studies, focusing on what psychoanalytic theory has to contribute to interpretation. Zusammenfassung Examines the role of psychoanalysis within Latin literary studies! focusing on what psychoanalytic theory has to contribute to interpretation. The argument is organized around three key topics - mourning! motherhood! and the origins of sexual difference - and takes the poetry of Catullus! Virgil! and Ovid as its point of reference. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: psychoanalysis and Latin poetry; 1. Two poets mourning; 2. Murdering mothers; 3. Variations on a phallic theme; Afterword: Freud's Rome.

Product details

• Authors: Ellen Oliensis, Ellen (University of California Oliensis
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 22.10.2009
• EAN: 9780521609104
• ISBN: 978-0-521-60910-4
• No. of pages: 160
• Series: Roman Literature and Its Conte; Roman Literature and Its Conte; Roman Literature and its Contexts
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies