Simile And Identity In Ovid S Metamorphoses

Author : Marie Louise von Glinski
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2012-02-09
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781139504201

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Simile and Identity in Ovid's Metamorphoses by Marie Louise von Glinski Pdf

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.

Author : Marie Louise Von Glinski
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0549933603

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Likeness and Identity by Marie Louise Von Glinski Pdf

This dissertation examines the figure of the simile in Ovid's Metamorphoses in order to illuminate the central concern of the poem: the manipulation of shapes. In proposing a likeness that is based on both similarity and contrast, the simile engages with the problem of how identity is construed and determined by surface impression. The simile occupies a unique ontological position in the poem, in that it never substitutes one thing with another but establishes relationships between them. Thus it is ideally suited to illustrate ideas and processes that go beyond the affirmative and to become the medium of the imagination. Stressing the openness of the simile in the lack of congruence between tenor and vehicle, I show the simile's potential for internal reflection on the text.

Author : Marie Louise von Glinski
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2012-02-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521760966

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Simile and Identity in Ovid's Metamorphoses by Marie Louise von Glinski Pdf

The first monograph on Ovid's epic simile, offering fresh perspectives on central episodes of this important work.

Author : Ovid
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1960
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105005719450

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Metamorphoses: Books I-VIII by Ovid Pdf

Author : Alison Sharrock,Daniel Möller,Mats Malm
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2020-06-26
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780192609595

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Metamorphic Readings by Alison Sharrock,Daniel Möller,Mats Malm Pdf

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.

Author : Karl Galinsky
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1975-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0520028481

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Ovid's Metamorphoses by Karl Galinsky Pdf

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.

Author : Monica R. Gale,J. H. D. Scourfield
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2018-04-05
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781107027145

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Texts and Violence in the Roman World by Monica R. Gale,J. H. D. Scourfield Pdf

A wide-ranging study of violence in Latin literature, across the spectrum of texts and genres from Plautus to Prudentius.

Author : Susan Wiseman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2014-04-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107041653

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Writing Metamorphosis in the English Renaissance by Susan Wiseman Pdf

Susan Wiseman analyses mythical and natural creatures in English Renaissance writing, including Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream and The Tempest.

Author : Bartolo Natoli
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Pres
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2017-08-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780299312107

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Silenced Voices by Bartolo Natoli Pdf

Examines speech loss across all of Ovid's writings and the ways that motif is explored, developed, and modified in the poet's work after his exile from Rome.

Author : Barbara Weiden Boyd
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2017-11-07
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780190680060

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Ovid's Homer by Barbara Weiden Boyd Pdf

Ovid's Homer examines the Latin poet's engagement with the Homeric poems throughout his career. Boyd offers detailed analysis of Ovid's reading and reinterpretation of a range of Homeric episodes and characters from both epics, and demonstrates the pervasive presence of Homer in Ovid's work. The resulting intertextuality, articulated as a poetics of paternity or a poetics of desire, is particularly marked in scenes that have a history of scholiastic interest or critical intervention; Ovid repeatedly asserts his mastery as Homeric reader and critic through his creative response to alternative readings, and in the process renews Homeric narrative for a sophisticated Roman readership. Boyd offers new insight into the dynamics of a literary tradition, illuminating a previously underappreciated aspect of Ovidian intertextuality.

Author : Gareth D. Williams
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1994-10-20
Category : History
ISBN : 0521451361

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Banished Voices by Gareth D. Williams Pdf

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.

Author : Shawn O'Bryhim
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2021-07-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781119770510

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A Student's Commentary on Ovid's Metamorphoses, Book 10 by Shawn O'Bryhim Pdf

Discover a holistic perspective on Ovid's Metamorphoses Book 10 with this insightful resource. In A Student's Commentary on Ovid's Metamorphoses Book 10, Shawn O'Bryhim offers an insightful and concise examination of the literary, grammatical, and textual matters integral to Book 10 of Ovid's Metamorphoses. Expanding the scope of more traditional textbooks on Book 10, the author explores the archaeological, religious, and cultural elements of the work as it relates to Greece, Rome, and the Near East. Readers will benefit from the inclusion of: A multidisciplinary approach that examines the religious, archaeological, and cultural background of Ovid's myths A Near Eastern perspective on the material, which will allow a deeper understanding of the subject matter An exploration of the grammatical and literary components that characterize Book 10 Intended primarily for undergraduates in advanced Latin courses on Ovid, A Student's Commentary on Ovid's Metamorphoses Book 10 will also earn a place in the library of anyone who desires a broader approach to the study of Book 10 of the Metamorphoses.

Author : Alessandro Barchiesi,E. J. Kenney,Joseph D. Reed
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 692 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2023-12-31
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781009197632

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A Commentary on Ovid's Metamorphoses: Volume 2, Books 7-12 by Alessandro Barchiesi,E. J. Kenney,Joseph D. Reed Pdf

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).

Author : Philip R. Hardie
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2002-05-02
Category : History
ISBN : 0521775280

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The Cambridge Companion to Ovid by Philip R. Hardie Pdf

Ovid was one of the greatest writers of classical antiquity, and arguably the single most influential ancient poet for post-classical literature and culture. In this Cambridge Companion, chapters by leading authorities from Europe and North America discuss the backgrounds and contexts for Ovid, the individual works, and his influence on later literature and art. Coverage of essential information is combined with exciting new critical approaches. This Companion is designed both as an accessible handbook for the general reader who wishes to learn about Ovid, and as a series of stimulating essays for students of Latin poetry and of the classical tradition.

Author : Ovid
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 641 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2023-12-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : EAN:8596547793786

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Metamorphoses by Ovid Pdf

The Metamorphoses is a Latin narrative poem comprised of over 250 myths. The poem chronicles the history of the world from its creation to the deification of Julius Caesar within a loose mythico-historical framework. The Metamorphoses is one of the most influential works in Western culture, it has inspired such authors as Dante Alighieri, Giovanni Boccaccio, Geoffrey Chaucer, and William Shakespeare. Numerous episodes from the poem have been depicted in acclaimed works of sculpture, painting, and music.