Ovid's poetics of illusion / Philip Hardie.

"Ovid's poetry is haunted obsessively by a sense both of the living fullness of the texts and of the emptiness of these 'insubstantial pageants'. This major study touches on the whole of Ovid's output, from the Amores to the exile poetry, and is the first overarching treatme...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Hardie, Philip R.
Format:	Book
Language:	English Latin
Published:	Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2002.
Subjects:	Ovid, > 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D. > Technique. Ovid, > 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D. > Influence. Literary form > History > To 1500. Illusion in literature. Rhetoric, Ancient. History.
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Table of Contents:

1. Introduction
2. Impossible objects of desire
3. Death, desire and monuments
4. The Heroides
5. Narcissus: The mirror of the text
6. Pygmalion: Art and illusion
7. Absent presences of language
8. Conjugal conjurings
9. The exile poetry
10. Ovid recalled in the modern novel.

Ovid's poetics of illusion / Philip Hardie.

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