Simile And Identity In Ovid S Metamorphoses
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Simile And Identity In Ovid S Metamorphoses
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Author : Marie Louise von Glinski
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2012-02-09
Simile And Identity In Ovid S Metamorphoses written by Marie Louise von Glinski and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-02-09 with Literary Collections categories.
Nulli sua forma manebat. The world of Ovid's Metamorphoses is marked by constant flux in which nothing keeps its original form. This book argues that Ovid uses the epic simile to capture states of unresolved identity - in the transition between human, animal and divine identity, as well as in the poem's textual ambivalence between genres and the negotiation of fiction and reality. In conjuring up a likeness, the mental image of the simile enters a dialectic of appearances in a visually complex and treacherous universe. Original and subtle close readings of episodes in the poem, from Narcissus to Adonis, from Diana's blush to the freeform dreams in the House of Sleep, trace the simile's potential for exploiting indeterminacy and immateriality. In its protean permutations the simile touches on the most profound issues of the poem - the nature of humanity and divinity and the essence of poetic creation.
Simile And Identity In Ovid S Metamorphoses
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Author : Marie Louise von Glinski
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2012-02-09
Simile And Identity In Ovid S Metamorphoses written by Marie Louise von Glinski and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-02-09 with History categories.
The first monograph on Ovid's epic simile, offering fresh perspectives on central episodes of this important work.
Ovid S Metamorphoses
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Author : Karl Galinsky
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 1975-01-01
Ovid S Metamorphoses written by Karl Galinsky and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1975-01-01 with Literary Criticism categories.
The main purpose of this book is to provide an introduction, in the form of a literary study, both to the major aspects of the Metamorphoses and to Ovid's basic aims in the poem. -- Book Jacket.
Metamorphosis
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Author : David Gallagher
language : en
Publisher: Rodopi
Release Date : 2009
Metamorphosis written by David Gallagher and has been published by Rodopi this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Literary Criticism categories.
The origins of selected instances of metamorphosis in Germanic literature are traced from their roots in Ovid's Metamorphoses, grouped roughly on an 'ascending evolutionary scale' (invertebrates, birds, animals, and mermaids). Whilst a broad range of mythological, legendary, fairytale and folktale traditions have played an appreciable part, Ovid's Metamorphoses is still an important comparative analysis and reference point for nineteenth- and twentieth-century German-language narratives of transformations. Metamorphosis is most often used as an index of crisis: an existential crisis of the subject or a crisis in a society's moral, social or cultural values. Specifically selected texts for analysis include Jeremias Gotthelf's Die schwarze Spinne (1842) with the terrifying metamorphoses of Christine into a black spider, the metamorphosis of Gregor Samsa in Kafka's Die Verwandlung (1915), ambiguous metamorphoses in E. T. A. Hoffmann's Der goldne Topf (1814), Hermann Hesse's Piktors Verwandlungen (1925), Der Steppenwolf (1927) and Christoph Ransmayr's Die letzte Welt (1988). Other mythical metamorphoses are examined in texts by Bachmann, Fouqué, Fontane, Goethe, Nietzsche, Nelly Sachs, Thomas Mann and Wagner, and these and many others confirm that metamorphosis is used historically, scientifically, for religious purposes; to highlight identity, sexuality, a dream state, or for metaphoric, metonymic or allegorical reasons.
Texts And Violence In The Roman World
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Author : Monica R. Gale
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2018-04-05
Texts And Violence In The Roman World written by Monica R. Gale and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-04-05 with Drama categories.
A wide-ranging study of violence in Latin literature, across the spectrum of texts and genres from Plautus to Prudentius.
Metamorphoses Books I Viii
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Author : Ovid
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1960
Metamorphoses Books I Viii written by Ovid and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1960 with categories.
Metamorphic Readings
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Author : Alison Sharrock
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2020-06-26
Metamorphic Readings written by Alison Sharrock and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-06-26 with Literary Collections categories.
Ovid's remarkable and endlessly fascinating Metamorphoses is one of the best-known and most popular works of classical literature, exerting a pervasive influence on later European literature and culture. A vast repository of mythic material as well as a sophisticated manipulation of story-telling, the poem can be appreciated on many different levels and by audiences of very different backgrounds and educational experiences. As the poem's focus on transformation and transgression connects in many ways with contemporary culture and society, modern research perspectives have developed correspondingly. Metamorphic Readings presents the state of the art in research on this canonical Roman epic. Written in an accessible style, the essays included represent a variety of approaches, exploring the effects of transformation and the transgression of borders. The contributors investigate three main themes: transformations into the Metamorphoses (how the mythic narratives evolved), transformations in the Metamorphoses (what new understandings of the dynamics of metamorphosis might be achieved), and transformations of the Metamorphoses (how the Metamorphoses were later understood and came to acquire new meanings). The many forms of transformation exhibited by Ovid's masterpiece are explored—including the transformation of the genre of mythic narrative itself.
A Commentary On Ovid S Metamorphoses Volume 2 Books 7 12
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Author : Alessandro Barchiesi
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2023-12-31
A Commentary On Ovid S Metamorphoses Volume 2 Books 7 12 written by Alessandro Barchiesi and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-12-31 with Literary Collections categories.
Comprising fifteen books and over two hundred and fifty myths, Ovid's Metamorphoses is one of the longest extant Latin poems from the ancient world and one of the most influential works in Western culture. It is an epic on desire and transgression that became a gateway to the entire world of pagan mythology and visual imagination. This, the first complete commentary in English, covers all aspects of the text – from textual interpretation to poetics, imagination, and ideology – and will be useful as a teaching aid and an orientation for those who are interested in the text and its reception. Historically, the poem's audience includes readers interested in opera and ballet, psychology and sexuality, myth and painting, feminism and posthumanism, vegetarianism and metempsychosis (to name just a few outside the area of Classical Studies).
Banished Voices
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Author : Gareth D. Williams
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1994-10-20
Banished Voices written by Gareth D. Williams and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994-10-20 with History categories.
This study examines the literary complexities of the poetry which Ovid wrote in Tomis, his place of exile on the coast of the Black Sea after he was banished from Rome by the emperor Augustus in A.D. 8 because of the alleged salaciousness of the Ars Amatoria and a mysterious misdemeanour which is nowhere explained. Exile transforms Ovid into a melancholic poet of despair who claims that his creative faculties are in terminal decline. But recent research has exposed the ironic disjunction between many of the poet's claims and the latent artistry which belies them. Through a series of close readings which offer a new analytical contribution to the scholarly evaluation of the exile poetry, Dr Williams examines the nature and the extent of Ovidian irony in Tomis and demonstrates the complex literary designs which are consistently disguised under a veil of dissimulation. Gareth Williams aims to counteract traditional scholarly antipathy to the exile poetry, which could be said to represent the last frontier in modern Ovidian studies. Scholars working in the field will welcome his insights.
Ovid S Metamorphoses
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Author : Ovid
language : en
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Release Date : 1997
Ovid S Metamorphoses written by Ovid and has been published by University of Oklahoma Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Drama categories.
Ovid's Metamorphosesis a weaving-together of classical myths, extending in time from the creation of the world to the death of Julius Caesar. This volume provides the Latin text of the first five books of the poem and the most detailed commentary available in English of these books.