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Loving Writing/Ovid's Amores

By: Ellen Oliensis

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Loving Writing/Ovid's Amores

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Offers detailed reading of the Amores, oriented toward the writer's and reader's pleasure, that reframes the discussion around elegy and identity.

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1108482309

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Loving Writing/Ovid's Amores

By: Ellen Oliensis

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Offers detailed reading of the Amores, oriented toward the writer's and reader's pleasure, that reframes the discussion around elegy and identity.

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Horace and the Rhetoric of Authority

By: Ellen Oliensis

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Horace and the Rhetoric of Authority

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This book explores how Horace's poems construct the literary and social authority of their author. Bridging the traditional distinction between 'persona' and 'author', Ellen Oliensis considers Horace's poetry as one dimension of his 'face' - the projected self-image that is the basic currency of social interactions. She reads Horace's poems not only as works of art but also as social acts of face-saving, face-making and self-effacement. These acts are responsive, she suggests, to the pressure of several audiences: Horace shapes his poetry to promote his authority and to pay deference to his patrons while taking account of the envy of contemporaries and the judgement of posterity. Drawing on the insights of sociolinguistics, deconstruction and new historicism Dr Oliensis charts the poet's shifting strategies of authority and deference across his entire literary career.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521573157

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9780521573153

Freud's Rome

Psychoanalysis and Latin Poetry

By: Ellen Oliensis

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Freud's Rome

Psychoanalysis and Latin Poetry

By: Ellen Oliensis

This book is a meditation on the role of psychoanalysis within Latin literary studies. Neither a sceptic nor a true believer, Oliensis adopts a pragmatic approach to her subject, emphasizing what psychoanalytic theory has to contribute to interpretation. Drawing especially on Freud's work on dreams and slips, she spotlights textual phenomena that cannot be securely anchored in any intention or psyche but that nevertheless, or for that very reason, seem fraught with meaning; the 'textual unconscious' is her name for the indefinite place from which these phenomena erupt, or which they retroactively constitute, as a kind of 'unconsciousness-effect'. The discussion is organized around three key topics in psychoanalysis - mourning, motherhood, and the origins of sexual difference - and takes the poetry of Catullus, Virgil, and Ovid as its point of reference. A brief afterword considers Freud's own witting and unwitting engagement with the idea of Rome.

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Cambridge University Press

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1139483005

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Metamorphosis of Language in Apuleius

A Study of Allusion in the Novel

By: Ellen D. Finkelpearl

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Metamorphosis of Language in Apuleius

A Study of Allusion in the Novel

By: Ellen D. Finkelpearl

This book differs from previous studies in its scope, its insistence on a variety of approaches, its emphasis on the importance of genre, and its argument that the place of the literary tradition progresses through the book. This is the first attempt to link Apuleius' allusive practices with a consideration of the emergence of the novel and the consequent tensions in generic form. The chapters on Charite, the Phaedraesque stepmother, and Isis represent experimental new directions for the interpretation of Apuleius and literary influence.

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253

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University of Michigan Press

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0472108891

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9780472108893

Freud's Rome

Psychoanalysis and Latin Poetry

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Horace and the Rhetoric of Authority

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Loving Writing/Ovid's Amores

Loving Writing/Ovid's Amores

Loving Writing/Ovid's Amores

Loving Writing/Ovid's Amores

Horace and the Rhetoric of Authority

Horace and the Rhetoric of Authority

Freud's Rome

Freud's Rome

Metamorphosis of Language in Apuleius

Metamorphosis of Language in Apuleius

Freud's Rome

Freud's Rome

Horace and the Rhetoric of Authority

Horace and the Rhetoric of Authority

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