Loving Writing/Ovid's Amores (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781108482301)

This book offers a fresh reading of the Amores centered on the aggressive, opportunistic, endlessly fluent, pleasure-seeking character, the poet-lover of the collection, here called Naso. Resisting the scholarly tendency to segregate the poet from the lover, Ellen Oliensis teases out the compromising affiliations between Naso's most 'poetic' performances and his seamy erotic adventures and shows that his need to write the script of his own subjection, far from delegitimizing his desire, tallies with other features of his generally masochistic profile. The book concludes with an exploration of the masochistic pleasures of the elegiac writing project as such, thereby effectively re-uniting Ovid with his surrogate within the collection.

Author: Ellen Oliensis
ISBN-10: 1108482309
ISBN-13: 9781108482301
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 07/11/2019
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 9.50h x 8.30w x 0.60d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 01/01/2020