Loving Writing/Ovid's Amores

Bibliographic Data

ID24159595
AuthorsEllen Oliensis (University of California, Berkeley, corresponding author)
Year2019
Publication date2019-07-11
Open AccessYes
TypeBOOK
VenueLoving Writing/Ovid's Amores (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherCambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1017/9781108687027
OpenAlexW4210963817
ISBN9781108687027
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited89

This book offers a fresh reading of the Amores centered on the aggressive, opportunistic, endlessly fluent, pleasure-seeking character, the poet-lover of the collection, here called Naso. Resisting the scholarly tendency to segregate the poet from the lover, Ellen Oliensis teases out the compromising affiliations between Naso's most 'poetic' performances and his seamy erotic adventures and shows that his need to write the script of his own subjection, far from delegitimizing his desire, tallies with other features of his generally masochistic profile. The book concludes with an exploration of the masochistic pleasures of the elegiac writing project as such, thereby effectively re-uniting Ovid with his surrogate within the collection.

Adventure · Art · Art history · Character (mathematics) · Elegiac · Linguistics · Literature · Pleasure · Poetry · Reading (process) · Decadence, Literature, and Society · Literature: history, themes, analysis · Philosophy · Psychology · Shakespeare, Adaptation, and Literary Criticism