Metamorphosis of Persephone - Ovid and the Self-Conscious Muse

List of contents

Acknowledgements; Preface; Part I. Two Settings for a Rape: 1. Metamorphoses 5.256-64: the Heliconian fount; 2. Metamorphoses 5.385-91: the landscape of Enna; Part II. Ovid's Two Persephones: 3. The Homeric Hymn to Demeter: Fasti 4; 4. The Homeric Hymn to Demeter: Metamorphoses 5; 5. Elegy and epic: a traditional approach; 6. Elegy and epic: a new approach; Epilogue; Notes; Works cited; Index of passages discussed; Index of subjects.

Summary

Ovid, a poet unashamedly in love in poetry, including his own, has enjoyed a recent renaissance in popularity. Yet there is still a certain tendency amongst critics to withhold from his writing the close, word-by-word, engagement which is its due. The primary aim of The Metamorphosis of Persephone is to celebrate this poet's detailed verbal art.

Product details

• Authors: Stephen Hinds, Hinds Stephen
• Assisted by: R. Lanny Hunter (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 03.09.1987
• EAN: 9780521335065
• ISBN: 978-0-521-33506-5
• No. of pages: 200
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Mathemati; Cambridge Studies in Mathemati
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics