OVID'S POETICS OF ILLUSION by Philip Hardie ( 9780521030922 ) - Books & Audio Books at Pickabook.co.uk

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Title:

OVID'S POETICS OF ILLUSION

By:

Philip Hardie

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Paperback

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ISBN 10:

0521030927

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9780521030922

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Publisher:

CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

29 November, 2006

Pages:

376

Description:

A comprehensive treatment of the ways in which Ovid exploits illusion in his poetry.

Synopsis:

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.

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12 b/w illus.

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Cambridge University Press

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