Loving Writing/ovid''s Amores

Informationen zum Autor Ellen Oliensis is Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of Horace and the Rhetoric of Authority (Cambridge, 1998), Freud's Rome: Psychoanalysis and Latin Poetry (Cambridge, 2009), and assorted essays on ancient poetry. Klappentext Offers detailed reading of the Amores, oriented toward the writer's and reader's pleasure, that reframes the discussion around elegy and identity. Zusammenfassung A sustained exploration of the wicked charm of Ovid's perennially popular Amores! focusing on the characterization of the poet-lover (cocksure yet hapless) and his desire for the erotic agitation supplied by his uncooperative mistress and his demanding verse form. Scholarly yet accessible! so will also appeal to students and teachers. Inhaltsverzeichnis Prelude; 1. Introducing Naso; 2. The poet's heart; 3. The lover's art; 4. Loving writing.

Product details

• Authors: Ellen Oliensis, Ellen (University of California Oliensis, Oliensis Ellen
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2019
• EAN: 9781108482301
• ISBN: 978-1-108-48230-1
• No. of pages: 208
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama > Poetry; Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Latin, HISTORY / Ancient / General, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, Literary studies: poetry and poets