A ironia ovidiana na subversão do protocolo amoroso em Roma
A less attentive reading of The Art of Love by Ovid may suggest that the poet framed his manual on the science of love within the social codes of his time, which subordinated woman to man and made her merely an object of male desire and pleasure, as well as a kind of reproductive apparatus. A closer...
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| description | A less attentive reading of The Art of Love by Ovid may suggest that the poet framed his manual on the science of love within the social codes of his time, which subordinated woman to man and made her merely an object of male desire and pleasure, as well as a kind of reproductive apparatus. A closer reading enables us to reach very different conclusions: the text acknowledges woman’s right to pleasure, to choose (or reject) her partner and to betray him, and it even defends mutual and simultaneous pleasure as one of the aims of the sexual act. This article aims to demonstrate this subversion of the “protocol of love” in Rome, discernible in The Loves and evident in The Heroines – the first book of poems by a male author with a female poetic subject – and also in the Cure for Love, a subtly ironic book concealing recognition of the primordial role of woman in relations between the sexes. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-9de6290d1d2c4bc39312c01f1bac617c2022-12-22T00:53:53ZengCentro de Estudos Sociais da Universidade de CoimbraRevista Crítica de Ciências Sociais0254-11062182-74352010-06-0189415410.4000/rccs.3672A ironia ovidiana na subversão do protocolo amoroso em RomaCarlos Ascenso AndréA less attentive reading of The Art of Love by Ovid may suggest that the poet framed his manual on the science of love within the social codes of his time, which subordinated woman to man and made her merely an object of male desire and pleasure, as well as a kind of reproductive apparatus. A closer reading enables us to reach very different conclusions: the text acknowledges woman’s right to pleasure, to choose (or reject) her partner and to betray him, and it even defends mutual and simultaneous pleasure as one of the aims of the sexual act. This article aims to demonstrate this subversion of the “protocol of love” in Rome, discernible in The Loves and evident in The Heroines – the first book of poems by a male author with a female poetic subject – and also in the Cure for Love, a subtly ironic book concealing recognition of the primordial role of woman in relations between the sexes.http://journals.openedition.org/rccs/3672loveironyliteraturewomenOvidgender relations |
| spellingShingle | Carlos Ascenso André A ironia ovidiana na subversão do protocolo amoroso em Roma Revista Crítica de Ciências Sociais love irony literature women Ovid gender relations |
| title | A ironia ovidiana na subversão do protocolo amoroso em Roma |
| title_full | A ironia ovidiana na subversão do protocolo amoroso em Roma |
| title_fullStr | A ironia ovidiana na subversão do protocolo amoroso em Roma |
| title_full_unstemmed | A ironia ovidiana na subversão do protocolo amoroso em Roma |
| title_short | A ironia ovidiana na subversão do protocolo amoroso em Roma |
| title_sort | ironia ovidiana na subversao do protocolo amoroso em roma |
| topic | love irony literature women Ovid gender relations |
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