The Face of Nature: Wit, Narrative, and Cosmic Origins in Ovid's Metamorphoses

Author:   Garth Tissol
Publisher:   Princeton University Press
Volume:   367
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Pages:   252
Publication Date:   14 July 2014
Format:   Paperback
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Author:   Garth Tissol
Publisher:   Princeton University Press
Imprint:   Princeton University Press
Volume:   367
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.340kg
ISBN:  

9780691600390


ISBN 10:   0691600392
Pages:   252
Publication Date:   14 July 2014
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Language:   English

Table of Contents

AcknowledgmentsAbbreviationsIntroduction3Ch. 1Glittering Trifles: Verbal Wit and Physical Transformation11Transgressive Language: Narcissus and Althea11Indecorous and Transformative Puns22Misunderstanding aura: Cephalus, Procris, and the Pun26Divinatory Wordplay: The Pun Overheard30Vox non intellecta: Irony and Metamorphic Wordplay (Myrrha)36Littera scripta manet - Or Does It? (Byblis)42Self-Cancelling and Self-Objectifying Witticisms52Wordplay, Personification, and Phantasia61True Imitation: Ceyx, Alcyone, and Morpheus72The House of Reception85Ch. 2The Ass's Shadow: Narrative Disruption and Its Consequences89Some Exemplary Interruptions89Daedalus and Perdix97Cyclopean Violence and Narrative Disruption105Some Scandalous Passages124Ch. 3Disruptive Traditions131Indecorous Possibilities: Callimachus's Hymn to Artemis and Ovidian Style131Elegiac Contributions: Propertius's Tarpeia and Ovid's Scylla143Epic Distortions: The Hecale in the Metamorphoses153Ch. 4Deeper Causes: Aetiology and Style167Aetiological Wordplay167Ovid's Little Aeneid177Aetiology and the Nature of Flux191Conclusion215App. AG. J. Vossius on Syllepsis oratoria217App. BSyllepsis and Zeugma219App. CFurther Examples of Syllepsis in Ovid221References223Index locorum231Index235

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"""Tissol's book offers ample evidence of the poem's perennial appeal... His generally effective English versions of his Greek and Latin sources enrich and broaden the book, thus extending its functional importance well beyond the classics seminar.""-- Choice"


Tissol's book offers ample evidence of the poem's perennial appeal. . . . His generally effective English versions of his Greek and Latin sources enrich and broaden the book, thus extending its functional importance well beyond the classics seminar. -- Choice


Tissol's book offers ample evidence of the poem's perennial appeal... His generally effective English versions of his Greek and Latin sources enrich and broaden the book, thus extending its functional importance well beyond the classics seminar. -- Choice


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