Ovid's Lovers: Desire, Difference and the Poetic Imagination - Brossura

Rimell, Victoria

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ISBN 10: 0521117801 ISBN 13: 9780521117807

Casa editrice: Cambridge University Press, 2009

Riassunto

Central to Ovid's elegiac texts and his Metamorphoses is his preoccupation with how desiring subjects interact and seduce each other. This major study, which shifts the focus in Ovidian criticism from intertextuality to intersubjectivity, explores the relationship between self and other, and in particular that between male and female worlds, which is at the heart of Ovid's vision of poetry and the imagination. A series of close readings, focusing on both the more celebrated and less studied parts of the corpus, moves beyond the more often-asked questions of Ovid, such as whether he is 'for' or 'against' women, in order to explore how gendered subjects converse, compete and co-create. It illustrates how the tale of Medusa, alongside that of Narcissus, reverberates throughout Ovid's oeuvre, becoming a fundamental myth for his poetics. This book offers a compelling, often troubling portrait of Ovid that will appeal to classicists and all those interested in gender and difference.

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Recensione:

'The serious reader will profit from engaging with Rimell's central thesis and detailed examples. ... Her brief account of the characteristic moment of metamorphoses in Ovid's great compendium is well worth reading, and her discussion of the gorgon's gaze prompts new ideas about the relationship between Ovid's poetry and the visual arts.' Britannia

Descrizione del libro:

Just as it compels writers today, the question of male and female relations preoccupied Ovid. This work investigates his obsession with the complexities of that relationship, exploring both his celebrated and lesser-known works. Offering a new vision of Ovid, this is required reading for students of Latin literature, gender and difference.

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• Editore: Cambridge University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0521117801
• ISBN 13: 9780521117807
• Rilegatura: Paperback
• Numero di pagine: 244