Ovid's Poetics of Illusion. - HARDIE, Ph.,
KORTE INHOUD
'Ovid's presence at the centre of the Latin canon must now be beyond doubt. A supple understanding of allusion, a post-modern interest in the phenomenon of textuality, and the revival of psychoanalytic criticism have all replaced the puerile genre wrecker who single-handedly brought down the Augustan golden age with a poet uniquely responsive to contemporary literary sensibility. This re-location of Ovid from the end of the classical tradition to the beginning of our own receives its most comprehensive and stimulating confirmation in Philip Hardie's ambitious new book. H. reveals the dynamic of absent presences as a defining poetic interest throughout Ovid's career. From the 'Amores' to the exile poetry, Ovid simultaneously celebrates the text's capacity to project the figures it describes, and the author who produces it, into the immediate experience of its readers and exposes these presences as mere illusions that mark above all the distance between representation and reality. This focus yields a new and st...
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2002Uitgever: Cambridge University Press365 paginasTaal: EngelsISBN-10: 0521800870ISBN-13: 9780521800877Koop dit boek tweedehands
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Cambridge (...), 2002. VIII,365p. Hard bound with dust wrps. Spine gilt titled. Nice copy. [Antiquarian] [Auteur: HARDIE, Ph.,] [Uitgever: Cambridge University Press] [Jaar: 2002] [Titel: Ovid's Poetics of Illusion.]
