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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Natoli, Bartolo, author.

Series:

Wisconsin studies in classics.

Wisconsin studies in classics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Ovid.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (pages cm)

Place of Publication:

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

Summary:

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

Contents:

Speech loss in ancient Rome: a working schema

Speech loss in the Metamorphoses

Speech loss in the exile literature

Speech loss and memory in the exile literature.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780299312138

0299312135

OCLC:

995782075