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Metamorphic Readings - Transformation, Language, and Gender in the Interpretation of Ovid's Metamorphoses (Hardcover)
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Metamorphic Readings - Transformation, Language, and Gender in the Interpretation of Ovid's Metamorphoses (Hardcover)
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Ovid's remarkable and endlessly fascinating Metamorphoses is one of
the best-known and most popular works of classical literature,
exerting a pervasive influence on later European literature and
culture. A vast repository of mythic material as well as a
sophisticated manipulation of story-telling, the poem can be
appreciated on many different levels and by audiences of very
different backgrounds and educational experiences. As the poem's
focus on transformation and transgression connects in many ways
with contemporary culture and society, modern research perspectives
have developed correspondingly. Metamorphic Readings presents the
state of the art in research on this canonical Roman epic. Written
in an accessible style, the essays included represent a variety of
approaches, exploring the effects of transformation and the
transgression of borders. The contributors investigate three main
themes: transformations into the Metamorphoses (how the mythic
narratives evolved), transformations in the Metamorphoses (what new
understandings of the dynamics of metamorphosis might be achieved),
and transformations of the Metamorphoses (how the Metamorphoses
were later understood and came to acquire new meanings). The many
forms of transformation exhibited by Ovid's masterpiece are
explored-including the transformation of the genre of mythic
narrative itself.
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