The Face of Nature : Wit, Narrative, and Cosmic Origins in Ovid's Metamorphoses

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In these reflections on the mercurial qualities of style in Ovid's Meta-morphoses, Garth Tissol contends that stylistic features of the ever-shifting narrative surface, such as wordplay, narrative disruption, and the self-conscious reworking of the poetic tradition, are thematically significant...

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Autor principal: Tissol, Garth
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2014.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Ovid, > 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D.
Ovid, > 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D. > Style.
Ovid, > 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D. > Literary style.
Ovid, > 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D. > Metamorphoses.
Metamorphoses (Ovid)
Literary style.
Rhetoric, Ancient.
Narration (Rhetoric)
Mythology, Classical, in literature.
Metamorphosis in literature.
Latin wit and humor.
Latin language > Style.
Cosmology, Ancient, in literature.
HISTORY > Ancient > Greece.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology of Religion.
Rhetorique ancienne.
Metamorphose (Biologie) dans la litterature.
Cosmologie antique dans la litterature.
Mythologie ancienne dans la litterature.
Humour latin > Histoire et critique.
Narration (Rhetoric) > History > To 1500.
Latin wit and humor > History and criticism.
History.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Acknowledgments ; Abbreviations ; Introduction; CHAPTER 1; Glittering Trifles: Verbal Wit and Physical Transformation; Transgressive Language: Narcissus and Althea; Indecorous and Transformative Puns; Misunderstanding aura: Cephalus, Procris, and the Pun; Divinatory Wordplay: The Pun Overheard; Vox non intellecta: Irony and Metamorphic Wordplay (Myrrha); Littera scripta manet-Or Does It? (Byblis); Self-Cancelling and Self-Objectifying Witticisms; Wordplay, Personification, and Phantasia; True Imitation: Ceyx, Alcyone, and Morpheus; The House of Reception; CHAPTER 2.
  • The Ass's Shadow: Narrative Disruption and Its ConsequencesSome Exemplary Interruptions; Daedalus and Perdix; Cyclopean Violence and Narrative Disruption; Some Scandalous Passages; CHAPTER 3; Disruptive Traditions; Indecorous Possibilities: Callimachus's Hymn to Artemis and Ovidian Style; Elegiac Contributions: Propertius's Tarpeia and Ovid's Scylla; Epic Distortions: The Hecale in the Metamorphoses; CHAPTER 4; Deeper Causes: Aetiology and Style; Aetiological Wordplay; Ovid's Little Aeneid; Aetiology and the Nature of Flux; Conclusion; APPENDIX A ; G.J. Vossius on Syllepsis Oratoria.
  • APPENDIX B Syllepsis and Zeugma ; APPENDIX C; Further Examples of Syllepsis in Ovid ; References ; Index Locorum ; Index.

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