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

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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Main Author: Tissol, Garth
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2014.
Series:Princeton legacy library.
Subjects:
Ovid, > 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D. > Metamorphoses.
Ovid, > 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D. > Literary style.
Ovid, > 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D. > Style.
Ovid, > 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D.
Metamorphoses (Ovid)
To 1500
Latin wit and humor > History and criticism.
Mythology, Classical, in literature.
Cosmology, Ancient, in literature.
Narration (Rhetoric) > History > To 1500.
Metamorphosis in literature.
Latin language > Style.
Rhetoric, Ancient.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology of Religion.
HISTORY > Ancient > Greece.
Cosmology, Ancient, in literature
Latin language > Style
Latin wit and humor
Metamorphosis in literature
Mythology, Classical, in literature
Narration (Rhetoric)
Rhetoric, Ancient
Literary style
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
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