Loving Writing/Ovid's Amores

by Ellen Oliensis

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,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1108482309
• ISBN13: 9781108482301
• Release Date: August 2019
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 8.3" x 9.5"