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PublisherOxford University Press, Incorporated

ISBN-100199281165

ISBN-139780199281169

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Product Key Features

Number of Pages552 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameOxford Readings in Ovid

SubjectAncient & Classical

Publication Year2007

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaLiterary Criticism

AuthorPeter E. Knox

SeriesOxford Readings in Classical Studies

FormatPerfect

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Item Height1.2 in

Item Weight23.6 Oz

Item Length8.5 in

Item Width5.4 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN2006-025672

Reviews...the articles...are wholly worth reading...[some of which] I would instinctively and unreservedly regard as essential reading for every interested reader

Dewey Edition22

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal871/.01

Table Of ContentIntroduction: 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

SynopsisNo 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 NumberPA6537.O94 2006