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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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014] ©1997 |
| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Edition: | Course Book |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Princeton Legacy Library ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (252 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- 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