{"product_id":"a-commentary-on-ovid-remedia-victoria-rimell-9780192894212","title":"A Commentary on Ovid, Remedia Amoris: Edited with Introduction and Commentary","description":"The Ovidian Renaissance seems to have left the \u003cem\u003eRemedia Amoris\u003c\/em\u003e behind. The poem has remained marginal, read either as a reversal of the \u003cem\u003eArs Amatoria\u003c\/em\u003e's teaching that brings the world of Ovidian elegy to a banal end, or as an over-determined supplement to the \u003cem\u003eArs\u003c\/em\u003e which ironically fails in its ostensible aim of 'curing' the dissatisfied lover. While recent work has explored how the poem functions not just as a palinode to, but also as a continuation of, the \u003cem\u003eArs\u003c\/em\u003e, the critical status quo continues to present it as a minor appendage rather than as an important chapter in Ovid's project as a poet of desire. Victoria Rimell's commentary resets critical perspectives by reading the \u003cem\u003eRemedia\u003c\/em\u003e as distinctive and original, and as a pivotal text within Ovid's oeuvre as a whole. In her immersive, creatively interpretative guide to the poem, the \u003cem\u003eRemedia\u003c\/em\u003e emerges as an intricate work that interacts with medical texts, works on rhetoric, law, magic and ritual, philosophical thinking about self-discipline, the irrational, consolation and therapy for the soul, as well as with Greco-Roman satire, lyric, epigram, and traditions of didactic and erotodidactic verse. The poem, Rimell argues, is a key node in Ovid's development of a poetics of paradox, reversibility, and auto-immunity.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Victoria Rimell\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0192894218\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780192894212\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/01\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 448\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.45lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.10h x 5.20w x 1.30d","brand":"Victoria Rimell","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46094245134591,"sku":"9780192894212","price":210.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_ea5745f7-be96-4852-822f-ea63cfe6cf00.jpg?v=1724844109","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/a-commentary-on-ovid-remedia-victoria-rimell-9780192894212","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}