I. Nilsson (dir.), Plotting with Eros: essays on the poetics of love and the erotics of reading

Ingela Nilsson (dir.), Plotting with Eros: essays on the poetics of love and the erotics of reading. Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press, University of Copenhagen, 2009. 292 p.

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Recension par Tomás Hejduk (University of Pardubice) dans Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2010.06.31.

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Présentation de l'éditeur:

The intricate relationship between the erotic and the literary is a recurring theme in Western literature, with a starting-point in Plato's dialogues. Our need to talk, write, and read about love has resulted in a rich tradition, ranging from theoretical and philosophical discussions of Eros to love romance and poetry, clearly marked by the classical heritage but continuously unfolding and rewriting itself.

The essays in this volume aim at providing both students and scholars with a series of discussions of this long tradition of reading and writing the erotic, seen from a number of different perspectives. A certain emphasis is placed on Classical philology, and in particular Greek and Roman love poetry from Antiquity to the Byzantine period. The contributors examine texts by Plato, Catullus, Sulpicia, Meleager and Niketas Choniates among others; but the anthology also offers more general treatments within the fields of Byzantine Studies, Iranian Languages, History of Ideas and Comparative Literature.

Across this range of writers and disciplines, this collection of essays offers stimulating and original perspectives on how Eros has been appropriated in a variety of ways for purposes of producing narratives of love.

Ingela Nilsson is Associate Professor of Byzantine Studies at Uppsala University.

Table des matières:

1. Ingela Nilsson, "Introduction, The Poetics of Love and the Erotics of Reading"
2. Dimitrios Iordanoglou and Mats Persson, "In the Midst of Demons, Eros and Temporality in Plato's Symposium"
3. Magdalena Öhrman, "The Potential of Passion, The Laodamia Myth in Catullus 68b"
4. Mathilde Skoie, "Reading Sulpicia, (Em)plotting Love"
5. Dimitrios Iordanoglou, "Is This Not a Love Song? The Dioscorides Epigram on the Fire of Troy (Anth. Pal. 5.138)"
6. Regina Höschele, "Meleager and Heliodora, A Love Story in Bits and Pieces?"
7. Tim Whitmarsh, "Desire and the End of the Greek Novel"
8. Tomas Hägg and Bo Utas, "Eros Goes East, Parthenope the Virgin Meets Vámiq the Ardent Lover"
9. David Westberg, "The Rite of Spring, Erotic Celebration in the Dialexeis and Ethopoiiai of Procopius of Gaza"
10. Emmanuel C. Bourbouhakis, "Exchanging the Devices of Ares for the Delights of the Erotes, Erotic Misadventures and the History of Niketas Choniates"
11. Ingela Nilsson, "Desire and God Have Always Been Around, in Life and Romance Alike"
12. Anders Cullhed, "Celebrating Angels, Ladies, and Girls, Aspects of Male Literary Desire from Dante to Goethe"