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Chapter 3 - The Lover’s Art

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 July 2019

Ellen Oliensis
Ellen Oliensis
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University of California, Berkeley
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Chapter launches project of taking Naso’s desire seriously. Reads Naso’s desire alongside Sacher-Masoch’s Venus in Furs, focusing on Naso’s desire to script scenes in which he is at the mercy of his girlfriend; his fascination with the blurred boundary between art-objects and flesh, especially visible in simile-clusters; his interest in castration; and the recurrrence, starting with the poems on Corinna’s abortion, of a “maternal fantasy” in which he plays alternately the mother and the baby. Key poems: Amores 1.7, 2.19, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 2.13, 2.14, 2.15

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masochismsimilesdesiresuspenseabortioncastrationeunuchfantasypaternal masquerade
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Loving Writing/Ovid's Amores , pp. 100 - 149
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2019

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  • The Lover’s Art
  • Ellen Oliensis, University of California, Berkeley
  • Book: Loving Writing/Ovid's <I>Amores</I>
  • Online publication: 01 July 2019
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108687027.004
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  • The Lover’s Art
  • Ellen Oliensis, University of California, Berkeley
  • Book: Loving Writing/Ovid's <I>Amores</I>
  • Online publication: 01 July 2019
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108687027.004
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  • The Lover’s Art
  • Ellen Oliensis, University of California, Berkeley
  • Book: Loving Writing/Ovid's <I>Amores</I>
  • Online publication: 01 July 2019
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108687027.004
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