Ovid's Poetics of Illusion

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Cambridge University Press, 2002 M02 7 - 365 pages
This major study of Ovid's poetry is the first overarching treatment of the importance of illusion and the conjuring presence throughout his corpus. Modern theoretical approaches accompanied by close readings examine the topic from the points of view of poetics and rhetoric, aesthetics, the psychology of desire, philosophy, religion, and politics. There are also case studies of the reception of Ovid's poetics of illusion in Renaissance and modern literature and art. The book will interest those studying Latin and later European literature. All foreign languages are accompanied by translations.

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Contents

Introduction
1
Impossible objects of desire
38
Death desire and monuments
72
The Heroides
122
the mirror of the text
146
art and illusion
174
Absent presences of language
232
Conjugal conjurings
264
The exile poetry
307
Ovid recalled in the modern novel
326
Bibliography
338
Index of modern authors
351
General index
360
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