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Ovid's Poetics of Illusion Hardie Hardback Cambridge University Press

Ovid's Poetics of Illusion

A comprehensive treatment of the ways in which Ovid exploits illusion in his poetry.

Philip Hardie (Author)

9780521800877, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 7 February 2002

376 pages

23.7 x 15.9 x 2.5 cm, 0.655 kg

'\u2026 this book \u2026 should be in the hands not only of anyone interested in Ovid, but of anyone interested in ancient, or modern, poetics as well.' Journal of Roman Studies

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 an overarching treatment of illusionism and the textual conjuring of presence in the corpus. Modern critical and theoretical approaches, accompanied by close readings of individual passages, examine the topic from the points of view of poetics and rhetoric, aesthetics, the psychology of desire, phi]

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Ovid's Poetics of Illusion Hardie Hardback Cambridge University Press

Ovid's Poetics of Illusion

A comprehensive treatment of the ways in which Ovid exploits illusion in his poetry.

Philip Hardie (Author)

9780521800877, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 7 February 2002

376 pages

23.7 x 15.9 x 2.5 cm, 0.655 kg

'\u2026 this book \u2026 should be in the hands not only of anyone interested in Ovid, but of anyone interested in ancient, or modern, poetics as well.' Journal of Roman Studies

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 an overarching treatment of illusionism and the textual conjuring of presence in the corpus. Modern critical and theoretical approaches, accompanied by close readings of individual passages, examine the topic from the points of view of poetics and rhetoric, aesthetics, the psychology of desire, phi]

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Ovid's Poetics of Illusion

A comprehensive treatment of the ways in which Ovid exploits illusion in his poetry.

Philip Hardie (Author)

9780521800877, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 7 February 2002

376 pages

23.7 x 15.9 x 2.5 cm, 0.655 kg

'\u2026 this book \u2026 should be in the hands not only of anyone interested in Ovid, but of anyone interested in ancient, or modern, poetics as well.' Journal of Roman Studies

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 an overarching treatment of illusionism and the textual conjuring of presence in the corpus. Modern critical and theoretical approaches, accompanied by close readings of individual passages, examine the topic from the points of view of poetics and rhetoric, aesthetics, the psychology of desire, phi]

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