Ovid's Lovers: Desire, Difference and the Poetic Imagination

by Victoria Rimell

Book Overview

Central to Ovid's elegiac texts and his Metamorphoses is his preoccupation with how desiring subjects interact and seduce each other. This major study, which shifts the focus in Ovidian criticism from intertextuality to intersubjectivity, explores the relationship between self and other, and in particular that between male and female worlds, which is at the heart of Ovid's vision of poetry and the imagination. A series of close readings, focusing...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521117801
• ISBN13: 9780521117807
• Release Date: July 2009
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 244 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"