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Simile and Identity in Ovid's Metamorphoses (Hardcover)
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Simile and Identity in Ovid's Metamorphoses (Hardcover)
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Nulli sua forma manebat. The world of Ovid's Metamorphoses is
marked by constant flux in which nothing keeps its original form.
This book argues that Ovid uses the epic simile to capture states
of unresolved identity - in the transition between human, animal
and divine identity, as well as in the poem's textual ambivalence
between genres and the negotiation of fiction and reality. In
conjuring up a likeness, the mental image of the simile enters a
dialectic of appearances in a visually complex and treacherous
universe. Original and subtle close readings of episodes in the
poem, from Narcissus to Adonis, from Diana's blush to the freeform
dreams in the House of Sleep, trace the simile's potential for
exploiting indeterminacy and immateriality. In its protean
permutations the simile touches on the most profound issues of the
poem - the nature of humanity and divinity and the essence of
poetic creation.
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