The Face of Nature : : Wit, Narrative, and Cosmic Origins in Ovid's Metamorphoses / / Garth Tissol.
In these reflections on the mercurial qualities of style in Ovid's Meta-morphoses, Garth Tissol contends that stylistic features of the ever-shifting narrative surface, such as wordplay, narrative disruption, and the self-conscious reworking of the poetic tradition, are thematically significant...
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Tissol, Garth, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut The Face of Nature : Wit, Narrative, and Cosmic Origins in Ovid's Metamorphoses / Garth Tissol. Course Book Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2014] ©1997 1 online resource (252 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Princeton Legacy Library ; 367 Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- ABBREVIATIONS -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER 1. Glittering Trifles: Verbal Wit and Physical Transformation -- CHAPTER 2. The Ass's Shadow: Narrative Disruption and Its Consequences -- CHAPTER 3. Disruptive Traditions -- CHAPTER 4. Deeper Causes: Aetiology and Style -- CONCLUSION -- ApPENDIX A. G. J. Voss ius on Syllepsis oratoria -- Appendix B. SYLLEPSIS AND ZEUGMA -- Appendix C. FURTHER EXAMPLES OF SYLLEPSIS IN OVID -- REFERENCES -- INDEX LOCORUM -- INDEX restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star In these reflections on the mercurial qualities of style in Ovid's Meta-morphoses, Garth Tissol contends that stylistic features of the ever-shifting narrative surface, such as wordplay, narrative disruption, and the self-conscious reworking of the poetic tradition, are thematically significant. It is the style that makes the process of reading the work a changing, transformative experience, as it both embodies and reflects the poem's presentation of the world as defined by instability and flux. Tissol deftly illustrates that far from being merely ornamental, style is as much a site for interpretation as any other element of Ovid's art.In the first chapter, Tissol argues that verbal wit and wordplay are closely linked to Ovidian metamorphoses. Wit challenges the ordinary conceptual categories of Ovid's readers, disturbing and extending the meanings and references of words. Thereby it contributes on the stylistic level to the readers' apprehension of flux. On a larger scale, parallel disturbances occur in the progress of narratives. In the second and third chapters, the author examines surprise and abrupt alteration of perspective as important features of narrative style. We experience reading as a transformative process not only in the characteristic indirection and unpredictability of Ovid's narrative but also in the memory of his predecessors. In the fourth chapter, Tissol shows how Ovid subsumes Vergil's Aeneid into the Metamorphoses in an especially rich allusive exploitation, one which contrasts Vergil's aetiological themes with those of his own work.Originally published in 1997.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Aug 2021) Cosmology, Ancient, in literature. Latin wit and humor -- History and criticism. Metamorphosis in literature. Mythology, Classical, in literature. Narration (Rhetoric) -- History -- To 1500. Ovid, -- 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D. -- Literary style. Ovid, -- 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D. -- Metamorphoses. Ovid, -- 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D. -- Metamorphoses.;Ovid, -- 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D. -- Literary style.;Latin wit and humor -- History and criticism.;Mythology, Classical, in literature.;Cosmology, Ancient, in literature.;Narration (Rhetoric) -- History -- To 1500.;Metamorphosis in literature. HISTORY / Ancient / Greece. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1980-1999 9783110413441 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Library eBook Package World History 9783110413663 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999 9783110442496 print 9780691600390 https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400864614 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781400864614 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9781400864614.jpg |
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