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Seduction and Repetition in Ovid's Ars Amatoria 2 (Hardcover)
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Seduction and Repetition in Ovid's Ars Amatoria 2 (Hardcover)
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The 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, and ourselves, as we are seduced by the poet into the act
of reading the poem. This book offers a new and sophisticated
critical assessment of the poem, based on the close analysis of
certain passages, whilst at the same time being concerned with the
reading of Ovidian poetry generally. Dr Sharrock's study is overtly
theoretical, influenced in particular by deconstruction and
reader-response theory, with an emphasis on intertextuality. In it
she discusses a range of original and important issues: the
traditions of didactic poetry and of elegy; the nature of the
addressee in literature; the relationship between author and
reader, speaker and addressee; poetic self-display; digression and
relevence; programmatic theory and poetic value under the sign of
Callimachus. This is an important and innovative work, which should
be of interest not only to classicists but also to literary critics
and theorists in English and other literatures. This book is
intended for scholars and advanc
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