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The Face of Nature - Wit, Narrative, and Cosmic Origins in Ovid's Metamorphoses (Hardcover)
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The Face of Nature - Wit, Narrative, and Cosmic Origins in Ovid's Metamorphoses (Hardcover)
Series: Princeton Legacy Library
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In these reflections on the mercurial qualities of style in Ovid's
Meta-morphoses, Garth Tissol contends that stylistic features of
the ever-shifting narrative surface, such as wordplay, narrative
disruption, and the self-conscious reworking of the poetic
tradition, are thematically significant. It is the style that makes
the process of reading the work a changing, transformative
experience, as it both embodies and reflects the poem's
presentation of the world as defined by instability and flux.
Tissol deftly illustrates that far from being merely ornamental,
style is as much a site for interpretation as any other element of
Ovid's art. In the first chapter, Tissol argues that verbal wit and
wordplay are closely linked to Ovidian metamorphoses. Wit
challenges the ordinary conceptual categories of Ovid's readers,
disturbing and extending the meanings and references of words.
Thereby it contributes on the stylistic level to the readers'
apprehension of flux. On a larger scale, parallel disturbances
occur in the progress of narratives. In the second and third
chapters, the author examines surprise and abrupt alteration of
perspective as important features of narrative style. We experience
reading as a transformative process not only in the characteristic
indirection and unpredictability of Ovid's narrative but also in
the memory of his predecessors. In the fourth chapter, Tissol shows
how Ovid subsumes Vergil's Aeneid into the Metamorphoses in an
especially rich allusive exploitation, one which contrasts Vergil's
aetiological themes with those of his own work. Originally
published in 1997. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest
print-on-demand technology to again make available previously
out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton
University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of
these important books while presenting them in durable paperback
and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is
to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in
the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press
since its founding in 1905.
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