Tragedy in Ovid - Theater, Metatheater, and the Transformation of a Genre

Informationen zum Autor Dan Curley is Associate Professor of Classics at Skidmore College. Klappentext This comprehensive study establishes the importance of an unexpected genre, tragedy, in the career of the most mercurial Western poet. Zusammenfassung A comprehensive study of Ovid's career as a tragedian. Important for scholars of Latin poetry and especially Ovid's amatory works! and for those interested in the history of the stage and the rich intertextuality of Greco-Roman literature. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Mutatas dicere formas: the transformation of tragedy; 2. Nunc habeam per te Romana Tragoedia nomen: Ovid's Medea and Roman tragedy; 3. Lacrimas finge videre meas: epistolary theater; 4. Locus exstat et ex re nomen habet: space, time, and spectacle; 5. Tollens ad sidera palmas exclamat: staging rhetoric; 6. Medeae Medea forem: tragic intratextuality; 7. Carmen et error: tragedy's end.

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• Authors: Dan Curley, Dan (Professor Curley, Daniel Curley, Curley Dan
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 18.07.2013
• EAN: 9781107009530
• ISBN: 978-1-107-00953-0
• No. of pages: 285
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Latin, LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, Literary studies: poetry and poets