Repeat Performances : Ovidian Repetition and the <i>Metamorphoses<i/> / edited by Laurel Fulkerson and Tim Stover.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Stover, Tim, editor.

Fulkerson, Laurel, 1972- editor.

Conference Name:

Langford Conference of the Department of Classics (2013 : Florida State University)

Series:

Wisconsin studies in classics.

Wisconsin studies in classics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Epic poetry, Latin--History and criticism.

Epic poetry, Latin.

Repetition in literature.

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

Ovid.

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

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

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

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (343 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Madison, Wisconsin : The University of Wisconsin Press, [2016]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Although repetition is found in all ancient literary genres, it is especially pervasive in epic poetry. Ovid's Metamorphoses exploits this dimension of the epic genre to a great extent; past critics have faulted it as too filled with recycled themes and language. This volume seeks a deeper understanding of Ovidian repetitiveness in the context of new scholarship on intertextuality and intratextuality, examining the purposeful reuse of previous material and the effects produced by a text's repetitive gestures. A shared vision of the possibilities of Latin epic poetry unites the essays, as does a series of attempts to realize those opportunities. Some of the pieces represent a traditional vein of allusion and intertextuality; others are more innovative in their approaches. Each, in a sense, stands as a placeholder for a methodology of theorizing the repetitive practices of poetry, of epic, and of Ovid in particular.Contributors: Antony Augoustakis, Neil W. Bernstein, Barbara Weiden Boyd, Andrew Feldherr, Peter Heslin, Stephen Hinds, Sharon L. James, Alison Keith, Peter E. Knox, Darcy Krasne

Contents:

Introduction: echoes of the past

Nothing like the sun: repetition and representation in Ovid's Phaethon narrative / Laurel Fulkerson and Tim Stover

Repeat after me: the loves of Venus and Mars in Ars amatoria 2 and Metamorphoses 4 / Andrew Feldherr

Ovid's Cycnus and Homer's Achilles' heel / Barbara Weiden Boyd

Loca luminis haurit: Ovid's re-cycling of Hecuba / Peter Heslin

Succeeding succession: cosmic and earthly succession in the Fasti and Metamorphoses / Antony Augoustakis

Rape and repetition in Ovid's Metamorphoses: myth, history, structure, Rome / Darcy Krasne

Metamorphoses in a cold climate / Sharon L. James

Ovidian itineraries in Flavian epic / Peter E. Knox

Revisiting Ovidian Silius, along with Lucretian, Virgilian, and Lucanian Silius / Alison Keith

Return to Enna: Ovid and Ovidianism in Claudian's De Raptu Proserpinae / Neil W. Bernstein.

Notes:

"The papers in this volume, many of which were delivered at a two-day Langford Conference held at the Florida State University in February of 2013 ... " -- Preface.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780299307530

0299307530

OCLC:

953582275