{"product_id":"a-commentary-on-ovid-remedia-amoris-edited-with-introduction-and-commentary-9780192894212","title":"A Commentary on Ovid, Remedia Amoris: Edited with Introduction and Commentary","description":"The Ovidian Renaissance seems to have left the \u003cem\u003eRemedia Amoris\u003c\/em\u003e behind. The poem has remained marginal, read either as a reversal of the \u003cem\u003eArs Amatoria\u003c\/em\u003e's teaching that brings the world of Ovidian elegy to a banal end, or as an over-determined supplement to the \u003cem\u003eArs\u003c\/em\u003e which ironically fails in its ostensible aim of 'curing' the dissatisfied lover. While recent work has explored how the poem functions not just as a palinode to, but also as a continuation of, the \u003cem\u003eArs\u003c\/em\u003e, the critical status quo continues to present it as a minor appendage rather than as an important chapter in Ovid's project as a poet of desire. Victoria Rimell's commentary resets critical perspectives by reading the \u003cem\u003eRemedia\u003c\/em\u003e as distinctive and original, and as a pivotal text within Ovid's oeuvre as a whole. In her immersive, creatively interpretative guide to the poem, the \u003cem\u003eRemedia\u003c\/em\u003e emerges as an intricate work that interacts with medical texts, works on rhetoric, law, magic and ritual, philosophical thinking about self-discipline, the irrational, consolation and therapy for the soul, as well as with Greco-Roman satire, lyric, epigram, and traditions of didactic and erotodidactic verse. The poem, Rimell argues, is a key node in Ovid's development of a poetics of paradox, reversibility, and auto-immunity.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVictoria Rimell, \u003cem\u003eProfessor of Latin, University of Warwick\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eVictoria Rimell\u003c\/strong\u003e is Professor of Latin at the University of Warwick, and has written extensively on Ovid and early imperial Latin literature. Her books include \u003cem\u003eOvid's Lovers: Desire, Difference and the Poetic Imagination\u003c\/em\u003e (2006), and \u003cem\u003eThe Closure of Space in Roman Poetics\u003c\/em\u003e (2015).\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50877880402194,"sku":"9780192894212","price":219.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_92df2ee6-8042-4732-a010-f2d850e07564.jpg?v=1738781890","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/a-commentary-on-ovid-remedia-amoris-edited-with-introduction-and-commentary-9780192894212","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}