The Image of the Poet in Ovid's Metamorphoses - Rilegato

Pavlock, Barbara

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ISBN 10: 0299231402 ISBN 13: 9780299231408

Casa editrice: Univ of Wisconsin Pr, 2009

Riassunto

Barbara Pavlock unmasks major figures in Ovid’s Metamorphoses as surrogates for his narrative persona, highlighting the conflicted revisionist nature of the Metamorphoses. Although Ovid ostensibly validates traditional customs and institutions, instability is in fact a defining feature of both the core epic values and his own poetics.
    The Image of the Poet explores issues central to Ovid’s poetics—the status of the image, the generation of plots, repetition, opposition between refined and inflated epic style, the reliability of the narrative voice, and the interrelation of rhetoric and poetry. The work explores the constructed author and complements recent criticism focusing on the reader in the text.

2009 Outstanding Academic Title, Choice Magazine

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Barbara Pavlock is associate professor of classics at Lehigh University and author of Eros, Imitation, and the Epic Tradition.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Univ of Wisconsin Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0299231402
• ISBN 13: 9780299231408
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 198