The Image of the Poet in Ovid’s Metamorphoses

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Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN 13 : 0299231437
Total Pages : 214 pages
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Book Synopsis The Image of the Poet in Ovid’s Metamorphoses by : Barbara Pavlock

Download or read book The Image of the Poet in Ovid’s Metamorphoses written by Barbara Pavlock and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 2009-05-21 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Barbara Pavlock unmasks major figures in Ovid’s Metamorphoses as surrogates for his narrative persona, highlighting the conflicted revisionist nature of the Metamorphoses. Although Ovid ostensibly validates traditional customs and institutions, instability is in fact a defining feature of both the core epic values and his own poetics. The Image of the Poet explores issues central to Ovid’s poetics—the status of the image, the generation of plots, repetition, opposition between refined and inflated epic style, the reliability of the narrative voice, and the interrelation of rhetoric and poetry. The work explores the constructed author and complements recent criticism focusing on the reader in the text. 2009 Outstanding Academic Title, Choice Magazine

Metamorphoses: Books I-VIII

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 500 pages
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Book Synopsis Metamorphoses: Books I-VIII by : Ovid

Download or read book Metamorphoses: Books I-VIII written by Ovid and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Ovid: A Very Short Introduction

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Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019257468X
Total Pages : 152 pages
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Book Synopsis Ovid: A Very Short Introduction by : Llewelyn Morgan

Download or read book Ovid: A Very Short Introduction written by Llewelyn Morgan and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-09-24 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Vivam" is the very last word of Ovid's masterpiece, the Metamorphoses: "I shall live." If we're still reading it two millennia after Ovid's death, this is by definition a remarkably accurate prophecy. Ovid was not the only ancient author with aspirations to be read for eternity, but no poet of the Greco-Roman world has had a deeper or more lasting impact on subsequent literature and art than he can claim. In the present day no Greek or Roman poet is as accessible, to artists, writers, or the general reader: Ovid's voice remains a compellingly contemporary one, as modern as it seemed to his contemporaries in Augustan Rome. But Ovid was also a man of his time, his own story fatally entwined with that of the first emperor Augustus, and the poetry he wrote channels in its own way the cultural and political upheavals of the contemporary city, its public life, sexual mores, religion, and urban landscape, while also exploiting the superbly rich store of poetic convention that Greek literature and his Roman predecessors had bequeathed to him. This Very Short Introduction explains Ovid's background, social and literary, and introduces his poetry, on love, metamorphosis, Roman festivals, and his own exile, a restlessly innovative oeuvre driven by the irrepressible ingenium or wit for which he was famous. Llewelyn Morgan also explores Ovid's immense influence on later literature and art, spanning from Shakespeare to Bernini. Throughout, Ovid's poetry is revealed as enduringly scintillating, his personal story compelling, and the issues his life and poetry raise of continuing relevance and interest. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.

A Web of Fantasies

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Publisher : Ohio State University Press
ISBN 13 : 0814209998
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (142 download)

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Book Synopsis A Web of Fantasies by : Patricia B. Salzman-Mitchell

Download or read book A Web of Fantasies written by Patricia B. Salzman-Mitchell and published by Ohio State University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Drawing on recent scholarship in art, film, literary theory, and gender studies, A Web of Fantasies examines the complexities, symbolism, and interactions between gaze and image in Ovid's Metamorphoses and forms a gender-sensitive perspective. It is a feminist study of Ovid's epic, which includes many stories about change, in which discussions of viewers, viewing, and imagery strive to illuminate Ovid's constructions of male and female. Patricia Salzman-Mitchell discusses the text from the perspective of three types of gazes: of characters looking, of the poet who narrates visually charged stories, and of the reader who "sees" the woven images in the text. Arguing against certain theorists who deny the possibility of any feminine vision in a male-authored poem, the author maintains that the female point of view can be released through the traditional feminine occupation of weaving, featuring the woven images of Arachne (involved in a weaving contest in which she tried to best the goddess Athena, who turned her into a spider) and Philomela (who had her tongue cut out, so had to weave a tapestry depicting her rape and mutilation)." "The book observes that while feminist models of the gaze can create productive readings of the poem, these models are too limited and reductive for such a protean and complex text as Metamorphoses. This work brings forth the pervasive importance of the act of looking in the poem which will affect future readings of Ovid's epic."--BOOK JACKET.

Ovid

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Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801437540
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (375 download)

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Book Synopsis Ovid by : Niklas Holzberg

Download or read book Ovid written by Niklas Holzberg and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides an overview of the life of Roman poet Ovid and offers an in depth analysis of his varied works.

Playing Gods

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Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400836549
Total Pages : 390 pages
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Book Synopsis Playing Gods by : Andrew Feldherr

Download or read book Playing Gods written by Andrew Feldherr and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2010-08-16 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a novel interpretation of politics and identity in Ovid's epic poem of transformations, the Metamorphoses. Reexamining the emphatically fictional character of the poem, Playing Gods argues that Ovid uses the problem of fiction in the text to redefine the power of poetry in Augustan Rome. The book also provides the fullest account yet of how the poem relates to the range of cultural phenomena that defined and projected Augustan authority, including spectacle, theater, and the visual arts. Andrew Feldherr argues that a key to the political as well as literary power of the Metamorphoses is the way it manipulates its readers' awareness that its stories cannot possibly be true. By continually juxtaposing the imaginary and the real, Ovid shows how a poem made up of fictions can and cannot acquire the authority and presence of other discursive forms. One important way that the poem does this is through narratives that create a "double vision" by casting characters as both mythical figures and enduring presences in the physical landscapes of its readers. This narrative device creates the kind of tensions between identification and distance that Augustan Romans would have felt when experiencing imperial spectacle and other contemporary cultural forms. Full of original interpretations, Playing Gods constructs a model for political readings of fiction that will be useful not only to classicists but to literary theorists and cultural historians in other fields.

Changing Forms

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Publisher : Museum Tusculanum Press
ISBN 13 : 9788772890883
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (98 download)

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Book Synopsis Changing Forms by : Otto Steen Due

Download or read book Changing Forms written by Otto Steen Due and published by Museum Tusculanum Press. This book was released on 1974 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Changing Forms - Studies in the Metamorphoses of Ovid

Ovid's Metamorphoses

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Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 9780806114569
Total Pages : 564 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (145 download)

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Book Synopsis Ovid's Metamorphoses by : Ovid

Download or read book Ovid's Metamorphoses written by Ovid and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 1972 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ovid is a poet to enjoy, declares William S. Anderson in his introduction to this textbook. And Anderson’s skillful introduction and enlightening textual commentary will indeed make it a joy to use. In these books Ovid begins to leave the conflict between men and the gods to concentrate on the relations among human beings. Subjects of the stories include Arachne and Niobe; Tereus, Procne, and Philomela; Medea and Jason; Orpheus and Eurydice; and many others, familiar and unfamiliar. For students of Latin-and teachers, too-they provide an interesting experience. In his introduction the editor discusses Ovid’s career, the reputation of the Metamorphoses during Ovid’s time and after, and the various manuscripts that exist or have been known to exist. He describes the general plan of the poem, its main theme, and the problem of its tone. Technical matters, such as style and meter, are also considered. In notes the editor summarizes the story being told before proceeding to the line-by-line textual comments.

A Commentary on Ovid's Metamorphoses

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521895812
Total Pages : 475 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (218 download)

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Book Synopsis A Commentary on Ovid's Metamorphoses by : Alessandro Barchiesi

Download or read book A Commentary on Ovid's Metamorphoses written by Alessandro Barchiesi and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-12-31 with total page 475 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first complete commentary in English on Ovid's Metamorphoses, covering textual interpretation, poetics, imagination, and ideology.

Ovid's Metamorphoses

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 76 pages
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Book Synopsis Ovid's Metamorphoses by : Ovid

Download or read book Ovid's Metamorphoses written by Ovid and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Structures of Epic Poetry

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Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110492598
Total Pages : 2756 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (14 download)

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Book Synopsis Structures of Epic Poetry by : Christiane Reitz

Download or read book Structures of Epic Poetry written by Christiane Reitz and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2019-12-16 with total page 2756 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This compendium (4 vols.) studies the continuity, flexibility, and variation of structural elements in epic narratives. It provides an overview of the structural patterns of epic poetry by means of a standardized, stringent terminology. Both diachronic developments and changes within individual epics are scrutinized in order to provide a comprehensive structural approach and a key to intra- and intertextual characteristics of ancient epic poetry.

Italian Readers of Ovid from the Origins to Petrarch

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004421696
Total Pages : 357 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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Book Synopsis Italian Readers of Ovid from the Origins to Petrarch by : Julie Van Peteghem

Download or read book Italian Readers of Ovid from the Origins to Petrarch written by Julie Van Peteghem and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-06-22 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Italian Readers of Ovid from the Origins to Petrarch, Julie Van Peteghem examines Ovid’s influence on Italian poetry from its beginnings, through Dante, to Petrarch, situating it within the history of reading Ovid in medieval and early modern Italy.

Ovid and Hesiod

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107328292
Total Pages : 261 pages
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Download or read book Ovid and Hesiod written by Ioannis Ziogas and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-04-11 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The influence on Ovid of Hesiod, the most important archaic Greek poet after Homer, has been underestimated. Yet, as this book shows, a profound engagement with Hesiod's themes is central to Ovid's poetic world. As a poet who praised women instead of men and opted for stylistic delicacy instead of epic grandeur, Hesiod is always contrasted with Homer. Ovid revives this epic rivalry by setting the Hesiodic character of his Metamorphoses against the Homeric character of Virgil's Aeneid. Dr Ziogas explores not only Ovid's intertextual engagement with Hesiod's works but also his dialogue with the rich scholarly, philosophical and literary tradition of Hesiodic reception. An important contribution to the study of Ovid and the wider poetry of the Augustan age, the book also forms an excellent case study in how the reception of previous traditions can become the driving force of poetic creation.

Ovid's Metamorphoses

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Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801870606
Total Pages : 580 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (76 download)

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Download or read book Ovid's Metamorphoses written by Ovid and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This landmark translation of Ovid was acclaimed by Ezra Pound as "the most beautiful book in the language (my opinion and I suspect it was Shakespeare's)". Ovid's deliciously witty and poignant epic starts with the creation of the world and brings together a series of ingeniously linked myths and legends in which men and women are transformed -- often by love -- into flowers, trees, stones, and stars. Golding's robustly vernacular version was the first major English translation and decisively influenced Shakespeare, Spenser, and the character of English Renaissance writing.

Identities, Ethnicities and Gender in Antiquity

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Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110719940
Total Pages : 293 pages
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Book Synopsis Identities, Ethnicities and Gender in Antiquity by : Jacqueline Fabre-Serris

Download or read book Identities, Ethnicities and Gender in Antiquity written by Jacqueline Fabre-Serris and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2021-04-06 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The question of ‘identity’ arises for any individual or ethnic group when they come into contact with a stranger or another people. Such contact results in the self-conscious identification of ways of life, customs, traditions, and other forms of society as one’s own specific cultural features and the construction of others as characteristic of peoples from more or less distant lands, described as very ‘different’. Since all societies are structured by the division between the sexes in every field of public and private activity, the modern concept of ‘gender’ is a key comparator to be considered when investigating how the concepts of identity and ethnicity are articulated in the evaluation of the norms and values of other cultures. The object of this book is to analyze, at the beginning Western culture, various examples of the ways the Greeks and Romans deployed these three parameters in the definition of their identity, both cultural and gendered, by reference to their neighbours and foreign nations at different times in their history. This study also aims to enrich contemporary debates by showing that we have yet to learn from the ancients’ discussions of social and cultural issues that are still relevant today.

A Discourse of Wonders

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Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 9780812234756
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (347 download)

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Book Synopsis A Discourse of Wonders by : Stephen M. Wheeler

Download or read book A Discourse of Wonders written by Stephen M. Wheeler and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 1999-05-13 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wheeler proposes instead that Ovid represents himself in the poem as an epic storyteller moved to tell a universal history of metamorphosis in the presence of a fictional audience.

Producing Ovid’s 'Metamorphoses' in the Early Modern Low Countries

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004462392
Total Pages : 345 pages
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Download or read book Producing Ovid’s 'Metamorphoses' in the Early Modern Low Countries written by John Tholen and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-08-30 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers an analysis of paratextual infrastructures in editions of Ovid’s Metamorphoses and shows how paratexts functioned as important instruments for publishers and commentators to influence readers of this ancient text.