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

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

  • Museum Tusculanum Press, University of Copenhagen,
  • EAN : 9788763507905
Publié le par Frédérique Fleck

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.

  • $66.00.
  • ISBN 9788763507905.

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 arecurring theme in Western literature, with a starting-point in Plato'sdialogues. Our need to talk, write, and read about love has resulted ina rich tradition, ranging from theoretical and philosophicaldiscussions of Eros to love romance and poetry, clearly marked by theclassical heritage but continuously unfolding and rewriting itself.

The essays in this volume aim at providing both students and scholarswith a series of discussions of this long tradition of reading andwriting the erotic, seen from a number of different perspectives. Acertain emphasis is placed on Classical philology, and in particularGreek and Roman love poetry from Antiquity to the Byzantine period. Thecontributors examine texts by Plato, Catullus, Sulpicia, Meleager andNiketas Choniates among others; but the anthology also offers moregeneral treatments within the fields of Byzantine Studies, IranianLanguages, History of Ideas and Comparative Literature.

Across this range of writers and disciplines, this collection of essaysoffers stimulating and original perspectives on how Eros has beenappropriated in a variety of ways for purposes of producing narrativesof 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"