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The World of Ovid's Metamorphoses Joseph B. Solodow.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Solodow, Joseph B.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mythology, Classical, in literature.
- Metamorphosis in literature.
- Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D. Metamorphoses.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (289 p.)
- Manufacture:
- Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015
- Place of Publication:
- Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 1988.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- World of Ovid's Metamorphoses
- Contents:
- Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; INTRODUCTION; The Propoetides and Pygmalion; Argument and Method; Scholarship on Ovid; CHAPTER ONE: Structures; The Search for Structure; Organizations; Dis-organizations; Story-telling; CHAPTER TWO: The Narrator; How Many Narrators?; Transitions; Epigram; The Narrator's Point of View; Self-doubt and Self-criticism; CHAPTER THREE: Mythology; Anachronism; Romanization; Modernization; Gods and Things Humanized; Intra-mythological References; Wit and Humor; CHAPTER FOUR: Aeneid; Narratives Compared: Storm and Flood; Narratives Compared: Firing the Ships
- The Story of AeneasCriticism of Virgil; CHAPTER FIVE: Metamorphosis; Narrative without Morality; Metamorphosis without Morality; A Definition of Metamorphosis; Metamorphosis in Literature; Allegory; CHAPTER SIX: Art; Metamorphosis as Art; Nature as Art; The Figure of the Artist; The Role of Art; Notes; Bibliography; Index of Passages Cited; General Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Z
- Notes:
- Includes indexes.
- English and Latin.
- Bibliography: p. 256-261.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 979-88-9313-144-4
- 979-88-908756-3-1
- 1-4696-1649-1
- 1-4696-1650-5
- OCLC:
- 567942452
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