An edition of The Face of Nature (1991)

The face of nature

wit, narrative, and cosmic origins in Ovid's Metamorphoses

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An edition of The Face of Nature (1991)

The face of nature

wit, narrative, and cosmic origins in Ovid's Metamorphoses

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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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Princeton University Press
Language
English
Pages
238

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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 literature

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Ovid (43 B.C.-17 or 18 A.D)

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To 1500
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Cover of: The face of nature
The face of nature: wit, narrative, and cosmic origins in Ovid's Metamorphoses
1997, Princeton University Press
in English
Cover of: The Face of Nature
The Face of Nature
August 21, 1991, Princeton University Press
Hardcover in English

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [223]-230) and indexes.

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Dewey Decimal Class
883/.01
Library of Congress
PA6519.M9 T57 1997

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Pagination
xii, 238 p. ;
Number of pages
238

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OL988753M
ISBN 10
0691011028
LCCN
96026943
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1645670
Goodreads
3037404

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OL3282064W

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In the Preface to Fables, Ancient and Modern (1700), John Dryden offers a hostile yet perceptive criticism of Ovid.
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