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Ovid Revisited : the Poet in Exile.
In time for the bimillennium of Ovid's relegation to Tomis on the Black Sea by the emperor Augustus in 8 AD, Jo-Marie Claassen here revises and integrates into a more popular format two decades of scholarship on Ovid's exile. Some twenty articles and reviews from scholarly journals have be...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
Bloomsbury Publishing,
2013.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Contents; Preface; Sources; Introduction; 1. Setting the scene: why Ovid remains so popular and what this book is about; 2. Brief overview of the facts of Ovid's exile; 3. Problems of approach; 4. Ovidian personae and the myth of exile; 5. Poetic ordering: the importance of variatio and chronology in studying the exilic poems, with brief overview of contents; 6. A story with a beginning, a middle and an end; 1. Persons and personalities; 1.1. Error and the imperial household: an angry god and the exiled Ovid's fate; 1.2. Ovid's wavering identity: personification and depersonalisation.
- 2. Poetic nequitia: the constant factor2.1. Structure, chronology, tone and undertone: an examination of tonal variation; 2.2. A stylistic and literary analysis of Ex Ponto 3.3: Praeceptor amoris or praeceptor Amoris?; 3. Ovidius poeta; 3.1. Carmen and poetics: poetry as enemy and friend; 3.2. Metre and emotion; 3.3. Ovidian Lautmalerei; 4. Ovidian logodaedaly; 4.1. The vocabulary of exile; 4.2. Exsul ludens: punning and word play; 4.3. Word-order and placement as a key to meaning; 5. Myth metamorphosed: Ovid's use and re-use of mythology; 5.1. Ovid, myth and intertextual allusion.
- 5.2. Scholars' time and poet's themes5.3. Myths featured in Tristia only; 5.4. Tristia 2 and the catalogue of myths; 5.5. More frequent figures; 5.6. A pattern emerges; 5.7. A new system of ornament?; 5.8. Dominant themes and mythical identifications; 5.9. The great omission; 5.10. The singular myth; 5.11. Statistical play; 6. Ad nostra tempora: Ovid today; 6.1. Mutatis mutandis: the poetry and poetics of isolation in Ovid and Breytenbach; 6.2. 'Living in a place called exile': the universals of the alienation caused by isolation; Excursus: Ovidian studies today; 1. Historicist interest.
- 2. Literary studies3. Modern Ovidian fictions; Appendix I; Appendix II; Vocabulary Table; Myth Tables; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; L; M; O; P; R; S; T; V; W.