Silenced voices : the poetics of speech in Ovid / Bartolo A. Natoli.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Natoli, Bartolo, author.

Series:

Wisconsin studies in classics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D--Criticism and interpretation.

Ovid.

Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D.

Criticism and interpretation.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

x, 227 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Madison, Wisconsin : The University of Wisconsin Press, [2017]

Summary:

Silenced Voices offers a pointed examination of the loss of speech, exile from community, and memory throughout the literary corpus of the Roman poet Ovid. In Metamorphoses, characters are transformed in ways that include losing their power of human speech. In Tristia and Epistulae ex Ponto, poems written following Ovid's exile from Rome in 8 CE, he represents himself as also having been transformed, losing his voice. In his unique cross-reading of these works, Bartolo A. Natoli reveals how the motifs and ideas articulated in the book-length Metamorphoses provide the template for the poet's representation of his own exile. He examines the ways Ovid depicts his transformation with an eye toward memory, reformulating how his exile would be perceived by his audience. Thus, argues Natoli, these exilic poems are an attempt to recover his voice and reconnect with the community of Rome. Book jacket.

Contents:

Speech and speech loss in ancient Rome

Speech loss in the Metamorphoses

Speech loss in the exile literature

Speech loss and memory in the exile literature.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9780299312107

0299312100

OCLC:

963749780