%0 Journal Article
%T Approximative Similes in Ovid. Incest and Doubling
%A Philip Hardie
%J Dictynna : Revue de Po¨¦tique Latine
%D 2010
%I Universit¨¦ Lille-3
%X This paper is about the pleasures and dangers of getting too close, about a desire to elide difference that operates on both a sexual and a textual plane. My subject is Ovid at his most seriously flirtatious, for this desire is at once the source of typically playful ¨C and, as we say, Ovidian ¨C effects of illusion and mistaken identity, and the obsessive urge that keeps the poet writing. This kind of serioludere is a central topic of my book Ovid¡¯spoeticsofillusion ; the present discussion ma...
%U http://dictynna.revues.org/166