Seduction and repetition in Ovid's Ars amatoria II / Alison Sharrock.

Format:

Book

Thesis/Dissertation

Author/Creator:

Sharrock, Alison.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D. Ars amatoria.

Ovid.

Erotic poetry, Latin--History and criticism.

Erotic poetry, Latin.

Seduction in literature.

Repetition (Rhetoric).

Rome--In literature.

Rome.

Rome (Empire).

Rhetoric, Ancient.

Sex in literature.

Physical Description:

xiv, 320 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1994.

Summary:

The Art of Love, or Ars Amatoria, is a poem about sex and poetry, and poetry as sex. Witty and subversive, it is a poem of seduction about seduction: the seduction of the implied reader being initiated into the art of love, as well as the actual reader being seduced by the poet into the act of reading the poem. This sophisticated but accessible reading of the poem focuses on the relationship between the poet and reader, the lover and the seduced--both here and elsewhere in Latin poetry. The book translates all Latin quotations, and should prove a new, exciting, and provocative contribution to Latin literary criticism.

Notes:

Based on the author's thesis (Ph. D.--University of Keele), 1993.

Includes bibliographical references (page) and indexes.

ISBN:

019814959X

OCLC:

187467866