Image of the Poet in Ovid''s Metamorphoses

Informationen zum Autor Barbara Pavlock is associate professor of classics at Lehigh University and author of Eros, Imitation, and the Epic Tradition. Klappentext Reveals major figures in Ovid's ""Metamorphoses""! highlighting the conflicted revisionist nature of the ""Metamorphoses"". This title explores issues central to Ovid's poetics - the status of the image! the generation of plots! repetition! opposition between refined and inflated epic style! and the interrelation of rhetoric and poetry. Zusammenfassung Reveals major figures in Ovid's ""Metamorphoses""! highlighting the conflicted revisionist nature of the ""Metamorphoses"". This title explores issues central to Ovid's poetics - the status of the image! the generation of plots! repetition! opposition between refined and inflated epic style! and the interrelation of rhetoric and poetry.

Product details

• Authors: Barbara Pavlock, Barbara Aylward Pavlock
• Publisher: The University of Wisconsin Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.03.2009
• EAN: 9780299231408
• ISBN: 978-0-299-23140-8
• No. of pages: 208
• Series: Wisconsin Studies in Classics; Wisconsin Studies in Classics
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Classical linguistics / literary studies