A R Sharrock
Biographic Data
| ID | 6048030 |
|---|---|
| NAME | A R Sharrock |
| GIVEN NAMES | A R |
| FAMILY NAME | Sharrock |
| SIGNATURE | SHARROCK A R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Clare College, Cambridge |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 59 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The art of deceit
Reading is delusion. In order to read, we have to suspend certain standards of reality and accept others; we have to offer ourselves to deceit, even if it is an act of deception of which we are acutely aware. One way of considering this paradoxical duality in the act of reading (being deceived while being aware of the deception) is more or less consciously to posit multiple levels of reading, whereby the deceived reader is watched by an aware rea…
The Drooping Rose
nos quoque delectant, quamuis nocuere, libelli, quodque mihi telum uulnera fecit, amo. ( Tr. 4.1.35f.) My books delight me, even though they have harmed me, and I love the weapon which caused my wound. In Amores 3.7, Ovid sings, hymns, celebrates his own impotence. Why? In stark contrast with its nearest Latin relative, Horace's most grotesque, violent and abusive impotence poem ( Epode 12, to be discussed later), Am. 3.7 is an erotic poem, and c…
Womanufacture
Women are ‘perceived’. We speak often not just of ‘women’, but of ‘images’, ‘representations’, ‘reflections’ of women. Woman perceived is woman as art-object; and paradigmatic of this phenomenon is the myth of Pygmalion. This article will consider Ovid's version of the myth, the story of the artist who loved his own creation. I shall suggest that the story reflects on the eroto-artistic relationship between the poet and his puella explored in Lat…
Ars Amatoria 2.123-42
The Drooping Rose
nos quoque delectant, quamuis nocuere, libelli, quodque mihi telum uulnera fecit, amo. ( Tr. 4.1.35f.) My books delight me, even though they have harmed me, and I love the weapon which caused my wound. In Amores 3.7, Ovid sings, hymns, celebrates his own impotence. Why? In stark contrast with its nearest Latin relative, Horace's most grotesque, violent and abusive impotence poem ( Epode 12, to be discussed later), Am. 3.7 is an erotic poem, and c…
The art of deceit
Reading is delusion. In order to read, we have to suspend certain standards of reality and accept others; we have to offer ourselves to deceit, even if it is an act of deception of which we are acutely aware. One way of considering this paradoxical duality in the act of reading (being deceived while being aware of the deception) is more or less consciously to posit multiple levels of reading, whereby the deceived reader is watched by an aware rea…
Womanufacture
Women are ‘perceived’. We speak often not just of ‘women’, but of ‘images’, ‘representations’, ‘reflections’ of women. Woman perceived is woman as art-object; and paradigmatic of this phenomenon is the myth of Pygmalion. This article will consider Ovid's version of the myth, the story of the artist who loved his own creation. I shall suggest that the story reflects on the eroto-artistic relationship between the poet and his puella explored in Lat…
Ars Amatoria 2.123-42
Ars Amatoria 2.123-42
Womanufacture
Women are ‘perceived’. We speak often not just of ‘women’, but of ‘images’, ‘representations’, ‘reflections’ of women. Woman perceived is woman as art-object; and paradigmatic of this phenomenon is the myth of Pygmalion. This article will consider Ovid's version of the myth, the story of the artist who loved his own creation. I shall suggest that the story reflects on the eroto-artistic relationship between the poet and his puella explored in Lat…
The Drooping Rose
nos quoque delectant, quamuis nocuere, libelli, quodque mihi telum uulnera fecit, amo. ( Tr. 4.1.35f.) My books delight me, even though they have harmed me, and I love the weapon which caused my wound. In Amores 3.7, Ovid sings, hymns, celebrates his own impotence. Why? In stark contrast with its nearest Latin relative, Horace's most grotesque, violent and abusive impotence poem ( Epode 12, to be discussed later), Am. 3.7 is an erotic poem, and c…
The art of deceit
Reading is delusion. In order to read, we have to suspend certain standards of reality and accept others; we have to offer ourselves to deceit, even if it is an act of deception of which we are acutely aware. One way of considering this paradoxical duality in the act of reading (being deceived while being aware of the deception) is more or less consciously to posit multiple levels of reading, whereby the deceived reader is watched by an aware rea…
Art (4 works) · Literature (4 works) · Classical Antiquity Studies (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Elegiac (2 works) · Poetry (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 work) · Ancient Mediterranean Archaeology and History (1 work) · Art history (1 work)