Metamorphoses

Metamorphoses PDF Author: Mary Zimmerman
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
ISBN: 0810119803
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 115

Book Description
This play is based on David R. Slavitt's translation of The Metamorphoses of Ovid - Monologues.

Playing Gods

Playing Gods PDF Author: Andrew M Feldherr
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400836549
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 390

Book Description
This book offers a novel interpretation of politics and identity in Ovid's epic poem of transformations, the Metamorphoses. Reexamining the emphatically fictional character of the poem, Playing Gods argues that Ovid uses the problem of fiction in the text to redefine the power of poetry in Augustan Rome. The book also provides the fullest account yet of how the poem relates to the range of cultural phenomena that defined and projected Augustan authority, including spectacle, theater, and the visual arts. Andrew Feldherr argues that a key to the political as well as literary power of the Metamorphoses is the way it manipulates its readers' awareness that its stories cannot possibly be true. By continually juxtaposing the imaginary and the real, Ovid shows how a poem made up of fictions can and cannot acquire the authority and presence of other discursive forms. One important way that the poem does this is through narratives that create a "double vision" by casting characters as both mythical figures and enduring presences in the physical landscapes of its readers. This narrative device creates the kind of tensions between identification and distance that Augustan Romans would have felt when experiencing imperial spectacle and other contemporary cultural forms. Full of original interpretations, Playing Gods constructs a model for political readings of fiction that will be useful not only to classicists but to literary theorists and cultural historians in other fields.

The Play of Fictions

The Play of Fictions PDF Author: A. M. Keith
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472102747
Category : Fables, Latin
Languages : en
Pages : 188

Book Description
A lucid analysis of the characterization of Ovidian narrative

The Greek Myths

The Greek Myths PDF Author: Leon Katz
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN: 9781557835024
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 162

Book Description
A cycle of eleven episodes that brings to life some of the most memorable edisodes and characters of Greek mythology.

He Brought Her Heart Back in a Box and Other Plays

He Brought Her Heart Back in a Box and Other Plays PDF Author: Adrienne Kennedy
Publisher: Theatre Communications Group
ISBN: 1559369280
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 100

Book Description
In her first new work in a decade, Adrienne Kennedy journeys into Georgia and New York City in the 1940s to lay bare the devastating effects of segregation and its aftermath. The story of a doomed interracial love affair unfolds through fragmented pieces--letters, recollections from family members, songs from the time--to present a multifaceted view of our cultural history that resists simple interpretation. This volume also includes Etta and Ella on the Upper West Side and Mom, How Did You Meet The Beatles?

A Discourse of Wonders

A Discourse of Wonders PDF Author: Stephen M. Wheeler
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 9780812234756
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 304

Book Description
Wheeler proposes instead that Ovid represents himself in the poem as an epic storyteller moved to tell a universal history of metamorphosis in the presence of a fictional audience.

The Image of the Poet in Ovid’s Metamorphoses

The Image of the Poet in Ovid’s Metamorphoses PDF Author: Barbara Pavlock
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN: 0299231437
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 214

Book Description
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

Power Play in Latin Love Elegy and its Multiple Forms of Continuity in Ovid’s >Metamorphoses

Power Play in Latin Love Elegy and its Multiple Forms of Continuity in Ovid’s >Metamorphoses PDF Author: José Manuel Blanco Mayor
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110490285
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 391

Book Description
Conceived as a necessary reconsideration of the pristine "elegiac question" in Ovid’s Metamorphoses, this book intends to offer an analysis of the function of elegiac discourse within Ovid’s magnum opus from the perspective of metapoetics. To that end, the author undertakes, in the first section, a close re-reading of some relevant passages of Latin love elegy. From a prism that takes into account the characteristically elegiac multivocality, the genre reveals itself as an agonistic discourse in which the poet dramatises his metaliterary power-relation with the puella, who is unveiled as the synthesis of the distinct sub-products of his poetic activity. Thereupon, the author proceeds to scrutinise how elegiac elements are assimilated and transformed as they become integrated within the framework of Ovid’s poem of changing forms. Far from being a mere stylistic ornament, the presence of an elegiac register in many erotic passages tells us about Ovid’s stance towards love as a metapoetic trope. By reworking elegiac tradition to the point of transforming it into a novum corpus, the poet ultimately substantiates the mutability of generic categories.

Ovid's 'Metamorphoses'

Ovid's 'Metamorphoses' PDF Author: Genevieve Liveley
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1441170812
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 209

Book Description
Perhaps no other classical text has proved its versatility so much as Ovid's epic poem. A staple of undergraduate courses in Classical Studies, Latin, English and Comparative Literature, Metamorphoses is arguably one of the most important, canonical Latin texts and certainly among the most widely read and studied. Ovid's 'Metamorphoses': A Reader's Guide is the ideal companion to this epic classical text offering guidance on: • Literary, historical and cultural context • Key themes • Reading the text • Reception and influence • Further reading
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