Ovid's Metamorphoses in Twentieth Century Italian Literature

This book aims to show the metamorphic nature of Ovid's reception in twentieth-century Italian literature. It is a study of the aesthetic effects of Ovid's poetics within both the novel and poetry tradition in Italy. By using a historical and philological methodology, the authors of each essay have shown the hermeneutic power of Ovid, read as a constant intertextual presence. From Giovanni Pascoli to Eugenio Montale, from Italo Calvino to Antonio Tabucchi, in this book Ovid's reception is finally shown to be as important as Virgil's and offers new important tools in order to understand the role of Latin literature in the twentieth century.

Summary

This book aims to show the metamorphic nature of Ovid’s reception in twentieth-century Italian literature. It is a study of the aesthetic effects of Ovid’s poetics within both the novel and poetry tradition in Italy. By using a historical and philological methodology, the authors of each essay have shown the hermeneutic power of Ovid, read as a constant intertextual presence. From Giovanni Pascoli to Eugenio Montale, from Italo Calvino to Antonio Tabucchi, in this book Ovid’s reception is finally shown to be as important as Virgil’s and offers new important tools in order to understand the role of Latin literature in the twentieth century.

Product details

• Assisted by: Alberto Comparini (Editor)
• Publisher: Universitätsverlag Winter
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.02.2018
• EAN: 9783825367886
• ISBN: 978-3-8253-6788-6
• No. of pages: 362
• Dimensions: 164 mm x 240 mm x 25 mm
• Weight: 658 g
• Series: Bibliothek der klassischen Altertumswissenschaften / Neue Folge, 2. Reihe; Bibliothek der klassischen Altertumswissenschaften, NF, 2. Reihe; Bibliothek der klassischen Altertumswissenschaften, Neue Folge, 2. Reihe; Bibliothek der klassischen Altertumswissenschaften / Neue Folge, 2. Reihe; Bibliothek der klassischen Altertumswissenschaften / The Library of The Other Antiquity
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Classical linguistics / literary studies; Literaturgeschichte, Italienisch, Italienische Literatur, Ovid, Lateinische Literatur, Calvino, Italo, Rezeptionsgeschichte, Literaturwissenschaft, allgemein, Mythenrezeption, Antikenrezeption, Gadda, Carlo Emilio, Publius Ovidius Naso, Montale, Eugenio, Pavese, Cesare, Tabucchi, Antonio, Landolfi, Tommaso, Savinio, Alberto, Levi, Carlo, Pascoli, Giovanni, D’Annunzio, Gabriele, Ortese, Anna Maria, Bontempelli, Massimo