Silenced Voices: The Poetics of Speech in Ovid

Author:   Bartolo A. Natoli
Publisher:   University of Wisconsin Press
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Pages:   248
Publication Date:   30 January 2021
Format:   Paperback
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Silenced Voices: The Poetics of Speech in Ovid


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Silenced Voices is a pointed examination of the loss of speech, exile from community, and memory throughout the literary corpus of the Roman poet Ovid. In his book-length poem Metamorphoses, characters are transformed in ways that include losing their power of human speech. In Tristia and Epistulae ex Ponto, poems written after Ovid's exile from Rome in 8CE, he represents himself as also having been transformed, losing his voice. Bartolo A. Natoli provides a unique cross-reading of these works. He examines how the motifs and ideas articulated in the Metamorphoses provide the template for the poet's representation of his own exile. Ovid depicts his transformation with an eye toward memory, reformulating how his exile would be perceived by his audience. His exilic poems are an attempt to recover the voice he lost and to reconnect with the community of Rome.

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Author:   Bartolo A. Natoli
Publisher:   University of Wisconsin Press
Imprint:   University of Wisconsin Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.335kg
ISBN:  

9780299312145


ISBN 10:   0299312143
Pages:   248
Publication Date:   30 January 2021
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments 1 Speech and Speech Loss in Ancient Rome: A Working Schema 2 Speech Loss in the Metamorphoses 3 Speech Loss in the Exile Literature 4 Speech Loss and Memory in the Exile Literature Notes Works Cited Appendix A: Instances of Speech Loss in the Metamorphoses Appendix B: Uses of mutus in Latin Literature  Index Locorum

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"A significant and distinctive contribution to Ovidian scholarship, tackling the issues of voice and silence in a comparative reading of Ovid's varied works."" - Gianpiero Rosati, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa ""Natoli's monograph reminds us to read Ovid's exile poetry with fresh appreciation for its literary complexity and learned allusiveness, and in that Ovid enthusiasts may be pleased."" - Classical Journal"


A significant and distinctive contribution to Ovidian scholarship, tackling the issues of voice and silence in a comparative reading of Ovid's varied works. - Gianpiero Rosati, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa Natoli's monograph reminds us to read Ovid's exile poetry with fresh appreciation for its literary complexity and learned allusiveness, and in that Ovid enthusiasts may be pleased. - Classical Journal


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Bartolo A. Natoli is an associate professor of classics at Randolph-Macon College.

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