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Simile and Identity in Ovid's Metamorphoses

By Glinski, Marie Louise von

Simile and Identity in Ovid's Metamorphoses Contemporary literature

Simile and Identity in Ovid's Metamorphoses

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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.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
180
Release Date:
2016-09-29
Publication Date:
2016-04-25
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1316623599
ISBN13:
9781316623596
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
270 g
Height:
152 cm
Width:
229 cm
Thickness:
11 cm
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