In the Preface to Fables, Ancient and Modern (1700), John Dryden offers a hostile yet perceptive criticism of Ovid.
An edition of The Face of Nature
(1991)
The Face of Nature
by Garth Tissol
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In these reflections on the mercurial qualities of style in Ovid's Metamorphoses, Garth Tissol contends that stylistic features of the ever-shifting narrative surface, such as worldplay, 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.
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Ancient Rhetoric, Cosmology, Ancient, in literature, History, History and criticism, Latin language, Latin wit and humor, Literary style, Metamorphosis in literature, Mythology, Classical, in literature, Narration (Rhetoric), Rhetoric, Ancient, Style, Ovid, 43 b.c.-17 a.d. or 18 a.d., Mythology in literaturePeople
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The face of nature: wit, narrative, and cosmic origins in Ovid's Metamorphoses
1997, Princeton University Press
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The Face of Nature
August 21, 1991, Princeton University Press
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in English
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