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The most sophisticated and daring poetic ironist of the early Roman Empire, Publius Ovidius Naso, is perhaps best known for his oft-imitated Metamorphoses . But the Roman poet also wrote lively and lewd verse on the subjects of love, sex, marriage, and adultery—a playful parody of the earnest erotic poetry traditions established by his literary ancestors. The Amores , Ovid's first completed book of poetry, explores the conventional mode of erotic elegy with some subversive and silly twists: the poetic narrator sets up a lyrical altar to an unattainable woman only to knock it down by poking fun at her imperfections. Ars Amatoria takes the form of didactic verse in which a purportedly mature and experienced narrator instructs men and women alike on how to best play their hands at the long con of love. Ovid's Erotic Poems offers a modern English translation of the Amores and Ars Amatoria that retains the irreverent wit and verve of the original. Award-winning poet Len Krisak captures the music of Ovid's richly textured Latin meters through rhyming couplets that render the verse as playful and agile as it was meant to be. Sophisticated, satirical, and wildly self-referential, Ovid's Erotic Poems is not just a wickedly funny send-up of romantic and sexual mores but also a sharp critique of literary technique and poetic convention.

Erotic Ambiguities explores how feminist artists have responded to traditional depictions of the "ideal female body" which proliferate throughout contemporary visual culture. Across photography, fashion, painting and performance art, McDonald shows how feminist artists have employed the idea of ambiguity to counter negative images of women and to dismantle the elusive classical ideal enshrined in "the nude." Examining the work of key artists from Barbara Kruger, Judy Chicago, and Mary Duffy, to Zoe Leonard, Tracey Moffat, Pat Barrington and Sally Smart, McDonald traces the shift in feminist art practices from the early deconstruction of patriarchal representations to the more ambivalent contemporary practices.

В аудиокниге представлены избранные стихи, поэмы, сонеты великого английского поэта Джорджа Ноэла Гордона Байрона на английском языке. Творчество Байрона вошло в историю мировой литературы как выдающееся художественное явление. Поэт-романтик он был властителем дум для своего времени. Пушкин назвал Байрона гением. Личность Байрона, его характер великий русский поэт сравнил со стихией моря. В стихах Байрона нашла свое отражение вся богатая мыслями и чувствами жизнь поэта. Аудиокнига будет интересна всем владеющим основами английского языка и совершенствующим свои навыки в нем.

Евгения Лавут – поэт, переводчик. Родилась в Москве в 1972 году. Окончила романо-германское отделение филологического факультета МГУ. Автор двух стихотворных сборников – «Стихи про Глеба, Доброго Барина, царя Давида, Фому и Ерему, Лютера и других» (1994) и «Амур и др.» (2001). Стихи, собранные в настоящей книге, написаны в последние пять лет.

Полный вариант заголовка: «Translations from the German and original poems / By lord Francis Leveson Gower».