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Simile and Identity in Ovid's Metamorphoses

2012-02-09 Literary Collections
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Book Synopsis Simile and Identity in Ovid's Metamorphoses by : Marie Louise von Glinski

Download or read book Simile and Identity in Ovid's Metamorphoses written by Marie Louise von Glinski. This book was released on 2012-02-09. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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

2012-02-09 History
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Book Synopsis Simile and Identity in Ovid's Metamorphoses by : Marie Louise von Glinski

Download or read book Simile and Identity in Ovid's Metamorphoses written by Marie Louise von Glinski. This book was released on 2012-02-09. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first monograph on Ovid's epic simile, offering fresh perspectives on central episodes of this important work.

Likeness and Identity

2009
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Release : 2009
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Book Synopsis Likeness and Identity by : Marie Louise Von Glinski

Download or read book Likeness and Identity written by Marie Louise Von Glinski. This book was released on 2009. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Metamorphoses: Books I-VIII

1960
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Release : 1960
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Book Synopsis Metamorphoses: Books I-VIII by : Ovid

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

Banished Voices

1994-10-20 History
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Release : 1994-10-20
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Banished Voices by : Gareth D. Williams

Download or read book Banished Voices written by Gareth D. Williams. This book was released on 1994-10-20. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

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