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Seduction and repetition in Ovid's Ars amatoria 2

Author: Alison Sharrock
Publisher: Oxford [England] : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1994.
Dissertation: Based on the author's Thesis (Ph. D.--University of Keele), 1993.
Edition/Format:   Thesis/dissertation : Thesis/dissertation : EnglishView all editions and formats
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The Ars Amatoria is a poem about sex and poetry, and poetry as sex. Witty and subversive, it is a poem of seduction about seduction: the seduction of the 'implied' reader being initiated into the art of love, and ourselves, as we are seduced by the poet into the act of reading the poem.
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Sharrock, Alison.
Seduction and repetition in Ovid's Ars amatoria 2.
Oxford [England] : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1994
(OCoLC)621341836
Named Person: Ovid; Publius Ovidius Naso
Material Type: Thesis/dissertation
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Alison Sharrock
ISBN: 019814959X 9780198149590
OCLC Number: 29670075
Notes: Spine title: Seduction and repetition in Ovid's Ars amatoria II.
Description: xiv, 320 p. ; 23 cm.
Contents: 1. The Art of (re-)Reading --
2. First Catch Your Reader --
3. Amor Artis: The Daedalus Episode --
4. Callimachean Apollo and the Long and Short of Art --
5. Thus We See? Re-reading 'Reading the Ars Amatoria'.
Other Titles: Seduction and repetition in Ovid's Ars amatoria II.
Responsibility: Alison Sharrock.
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Abstract:

The Ars Amatoria is a poem about sex and poetry, and poetry as sex. Witty and subversive, it is a poem of seduction about seduction: the seduction of the 'implied' reader being initiated into the art of love, and ourselves, as we are seduced by the poet into the act of reading the poem.

This book offers a new and sophisticated critical assessment of the poem, based on the close analysis of certain passages, whilst at the same time being concerned with the reading of Ovidian poetry generally. Dr Sharrock's study is overtly theoretical, influenced in particular by deconstruction and reader-response theory, with an emphasis on intertextuality.

In it she discusses a range of original and important issues: the traditions of didactic poetry and of elegy; the nature of the addressee in literature; the relationship between author and reader, speaker, and addressee; poetic self-display; digression and relevance; programmatic theory and poetic value under the sign of Callimachus. This is an important and innovative work, which should be of interest not only to classicists but also to literary critics and theorists in English and other literatures.

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