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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Oxford University Press, Incorporated
ISBN-10
0199281165
ISBN-13
9780199281169
eBay Product ID (ePID)
57005939
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
552 Pages
Publication Name
Oxford Readings in Ovid
Language
English
Publication Year
2007
Subject
Ancient & Classical
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Literary Criticism
Series
Oxford Readings in Classical Studies
Format
Perfect
Dimensions
Item Height
1.2 in
Item Weight
23.8 Oz
Item Length
8.3 in
Item Width
5.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
2006-025672
Dewey Edition
22
Reviews
...the articles...are wholly worth reading...[some of which] I would instinctively and unreservedly regard as essential reading for every interested reader
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
871/.01
Table Of Content
Introduction: Horizons in Ovidian ScholarshipContexts and Intertexts1. Generalizing about Ovid2. Playing with his Life: Ovid's Autobiographical References3. The Epistolary Mode and the First of Ovid's Heroides4. Ovidian Allusion and the Vocabulary of Memory5. Vergil's Best Reader? Ovidian Commentary on Vergilian Etymological Wordplay6. Lucretius and the Delusions of Narcissus7. Other Voices in Ovid's 'Aeneid'Ideologies of Love and Poetry8. Reading Female Flesh: Amores 3.19. The Death of Corinna's Parrot Reconsidered: Poetry and Ovid's Amores10. Fantasy, Myth, and Love Letters: Text and Tale in Ovid's Heroides11. Ovid and the Politics of ReadingNarrators and Narratives12. Ovidius Prooemians13. Voices and Narrative 'Instances' in the Metamorphoses14. Pyramus and Thisbe in Cyprus15. Form in Motion: Weaving the Text in the Metamorphoses16. Ovid's Narrator in the FastiOn the Margins of Empire17. Ovid, Germanicus, and the Composition of the Fasti18. Booking the Return Trip19. On Ovid's Ibis: A Poem in Context20. Si licet et fas est: Ovid's Fasti and the Problem of Free Speech under the Principate
Synopsis
No other ancient poet has had such a hold on the imagination of readers as Ovid. Through the centuries, artists, writers, and poets have found in his work inspiration for new creative endeavours.This anthology of twenty of the most influential papers published in the last thirty years represents the broad range of critical and scholarly approaches to Ovid's work. The entire range of his poetry, from the Amores to the Epistles from the Black Sea, is discussed by some of the leading scholars of Latin poetry, employing, critical methods ranging from philology to contemporary literary theory. In an introductory essay, Peter Knox surveys Ovidian scholarship over this period and locates the assembled papers within recent critical trends. Taken together, the articles in this collection offer the interested reader, whether experienced scholar or novice, an entrée into the current critical discourse on Ovid, who is at once one of the most accessible authors of classical antiquity and one of the least understood., A collection of twenty classic papers by the critics most often consulted by students and teachers of Ovid's poetry. Taken together, these papers form the basis for contemporary interpretation of Ovid's works; an introduction by Peter Knox locates them within recent critical trends. All Latin in the text has been translated., No other ancient poet has had such a hold on the imagination of readers as Ovid. Through the centuries, artists, writers, and poets have found in his work inspiration for new creative endeavors. This anthology of twenty of the most influential papers published in the last thirty years represents the broad range of critical and scholarly approaches to Ovid's work. The entire range of his poetry, from the Amores to the Epistles from the Black Sea, is discussed by some of the leading scholars of Latin poetry, employing, critical methods ranging from philology to contemporary literary theory. In an introductory essay, Peter Knox surveys Ovidian scholarship over this period and locates the assembled papers within recent critical trends. Taken together, the articles in this collection offer the interested reader, whether experienced scholar or novice, an entrée into the current critical discourse on Ovid, who is at once one of the most accessible authors of classical antiquity and one of the least understood., No other ancient poet has had such a hold on the imagination of readers as Ovid. Through the centuries, artists, writers, and poets have found in his work inspiration for new creative endeavors. This anthology of twenty of the most influential papers published in the last thirty years represents the broad range of critical and scholarly approaches to Ovid's work. The entire range of his poetry, from the Amores to the Epistles from the Black Sea, is discussed by some of the leading scholars of Latin poetry, employing, critical methods ranging from philology to contemporary literary theory. In an introductory essay, Peter Knox surveys Ovidian scholarship over this period and locates the assembled papers within recent critical trends. Taken together, the articles in this collection offer the interested reader, whether experienced scholar or novice, an entree into the current critical discourse on Ovid, who is at once one of the most accessible authors of classical antiquity and one of the least understood."
LC Classification Number
PA6537.O94 2006
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