Mythical and Legendary Narrative in Ovid's Fasti
Title | Mythical and Legendary Narrative in Ovid's Fasti PDF eBook |
Author | Paul Murgatroyd |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 320 |
Release | 2017-07-31 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9047407229 |
This book analyses the mythical and legendary narratives in Ovid's Fasti as narrative and concentrates on the neglected literary aspects of these stories. It combines traditional tools of literary criticism with more modern techniques (taken especially from narratology and intertextuality). From a narratological viewpoint it covers important features such as aperture, closure, characterization, internal narrators, description, space, time and cinematic technique. On the intertextual level it examines the narratives' complex relationship with Virgil, Livy and Ovid's own earlier works. Recent criticism on the Fasti has addressed various elements (religious, historical, political, astronomical etc.), but detailed narrative study has been wanting. This book fills that gap, to provide a more informed and balanced appreciation of this multifaceted poem aimed at classicists and literary critics in general (for whom all the Latin is translated).
Mythical and Legendary Narrative in Ovid's Fasti. Mnemosyne
Title | Mythical and Legendary Narrative in Ovid's Fasti. Mnemosyne PDF eBook |
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Release | 2005 |
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This book analyses the mythical and legendary narratives in Ovid's Fasti as narrative and concentrates on the neglected literary aspects of these stories. It combines traditional tools of literary criticism with more modern techniques (taken especially from narratology and intertextuality). From a narratological viewpoint it covers important features such as aperture, closure, characterization, internal narrators, description, space, time and cinematic technique. On the intertextual level it examines the narratives' complex relationship with Virgil, Livy and Ovid's own earlier works. Recent criticism on the Fasti has addressed various elements (religious, historical, political, astronomical etc.), but detailed narrative study has been wanting. This book fills that gap, to provide a more informed and balanced appreciation of this multifaceted poem aimed at classicists and literary critics in general (for whom all the Latin is translated).
Ovid, Fasti
Title | Ovid, Fasti PDF eBook |
Author | Ovid |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Pages | 225 |
Release | 2013-04-11 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0192824112 |
Ovid's poetical calendar of the Roman year is both a day by day account of festivals and observances and their origins, and a delightful retelling of myths and legends associated with particular dates." --from back cover.
Ovid: Fasti Book 3
Title | Ovid: Fasti Book 3 PDF eBook |
Author | S. J. Heyworth |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 299 |
Release | 2019-05-16 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1107016479 |
Presents a clear and detailed guide to a central book of the Fasti, Ovid's account of Rome and its calendar.
Intratextuality and Latin Literature
Title | Intratextuality and Latin Literature PDF eBook |
Author | Stephen J. Harrison |
Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Pages | 497 |
Release | 2018-10-08 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 311061023X |
Recent years have witnessed an increased interest in classical studies in the ways meaning is generated through the medium of intertextuality, namely how different texts of the same or different authors communicate and interact with each other. Attention (although on a lesser scale) has also been paid to the manner in which meaning is produced through interaction between various parts of the same text or body of texts within the overall production of a single author, namely intratextuality. Taking off from the seminal volume on Intratextuality: Greek and Roman Textual Relations, edited by A. Sharrock / H. Morales (Oxford 2000), which largely sets the theoretical framework for such internal associations within classical texts, this collective volume brings together twenty-seven contributions, written by an international team of experts, exploring the evolution of intratextuality from Late Republic to Late Antiquity across a wide range of authors, genres and historical periods. Of particular interest are also the combined instances of intra- and intertextual poetics as well as the way in which intratextuality in Latin literature draws on reading practices and critical methods already theorized and operative in Greek antiquity.
Ovid's Women of the Year
Title | Ovid's Women of the Year PDF eBook |
Author | Angeline Chiu |
Publisher | University of Michigan Press |
Pages | 221 |
Release | 2016-08-19 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0472130048 |
Ovid's "calendar girls" reveal what it means to be Roman
The Fractured Voice
Title | The Fractured Voice PDF eBook |
Author | Amy A. Koenig |
Publisher | University of Wisconsin Pres |
Pages | 228 |
Release | 2024 |
Genre | Classical literature |
ISBN | 0299345300 |
Imperial Rome privileged the elite male citizen as one of sound mind and body, superior in all ways to women, noncitizens, and nonhumans. One of the markers of his superiority was the power of his voice, both literal (in terms of oratory and the legal capacity to represent himself and others) and metaphoric, as in the political power of having a "voice" in the public sphere. Muteness in ancient Roman society has thus long been understood as a deficiency, both physically and socially. In this volume, Amy Koenig deftly confronts the trope of muteness in Imperial Roman literature, arguing that this understanding of silence is incomplete. By unpacking the motif of voicelessness across a wide range of written sources, she shows that the Roman perception of silence was more complicated than a simple binary and that elite male authors used muted or voiceless characters to interrogate the concept of voicelessness in ways that would be taboo in other contexts. Paradoxically, Koenig illustrates that silence could in fact be freeing--that the loss of voice permits an untethering from other social norms and expectations, thus allowing a freedom of expression denied to many of the voiced.