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Ovid : a poet on the margins /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Fulkerson, Laurel, 1972- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2016.
Series:Classical world series.
Subjects:
Ovid, > 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D. > Criticism and interpretation.
Latin literature > History and criticism.
Table of Contents:
  • Life on the margins
  • Truth stranger than fiction: poet exiled under suspicious circumstances!
  • Meanwhile, back in Rome?: Ovid's historical context
  • Repetition compulsion and Ovidian excess
  • Now you see him, now you still see him: Ovidian narrative style and metre
  • Same story, different day: a poetics of repetition
  • Romans at home and abroad: identity and the colonial subject
  • Strangers in a strange land: explorers and exiles
  • Speaking and silence; victims and victimizers
  • Empire and colonialism.