Metamorphoses Play

Author : Mary Zimmerman
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
ISBN 13 : 0810119803
Total Pages : 115 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Metamorphoses written by Mary Zimmerman and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This play is based on David R. Slavitt's translation of The Metamorphoses of Ovid - Monologues.

Author : Leon Katz
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9781557835024
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Greek Myths written by Leon Katz and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2004 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A cycle of eleven episodes that brings to life some of the most memorable edisodes and characters of Greek mythology.

Author : Andrew Feldherr
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400836549
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Playing Gods written by Andrew Feldherr and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2010-08-16 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a novel interpretation of politics and identity in Ovid's epic poem of transformations, the Metamorphoses. Reexamining the emphatically fictional character of the poem, Playing Gods argues that Ovid uses the problem of fiction in the text to redefine the power of poetry in Augustan Rome. The book also provides the fullest account yet of how the poem relates to the range of cultural phenomena that defined and projected Augustan authority, including spectacle, theater, and the visual arts. Andrew Feldherr argues that a key to the political as well as literary power of the Metamorphoses is the way it manipulates its readers' awareness that its stories cannot possibly be true. By continually juxtaposing the imaginary and the real, Ovid shows how a poem made up of fictions can and cannot acquire the authority and presence of other discursive forms. One important way that the poem does this is through narratives that create a "double vision" by casting characters as both mythical figures and enduring presences in the physical landscapes of its readers. This narrative device creates the kind of tensions between identification and distance that Augustan Romans would have felt when experiencing imperial spectacle and other contemporary cultural forms. Full of original interpretations, Playing Gods constructs a model for political readings of fiction that will be useful not only to classicists but to literary theorists and cultural historians in other fields.

Author : A. M. Keith
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 9780472102747
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Play of Fictions written by A. M. Keith and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lucid analysis of the characterization of Ovidian narrative

Author : Franz Kafka
Publisher : Saptarshee Prakashan
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Metamorphosis written by Franz Kafka and published by Saptarshee Prakashan. This book was released on 2023-04-06 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ovid
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Metamorphoses: Books I-VIII written by Ovid and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ovid
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 9780806114569
Total Pages : 564 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ovid's Metamorphoses written by Ovid and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 1972 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ovid is a poet to enjoy, declares William S. Anderson in his introduction to this textbook. And Anderson’s skillful introduction and enlightening textual commentary will indeed make it a joy to use. In these books Ovid begins to leave the conflict between men and the gods to concentrate on the relations among human beings. Subjects of the stories include Arachne and Niobe; Tereus, Procne, and Philomela; Medea and Jason; Orpheus and Eurydice; and many others, familiar and unfamiliar. For students of Latin-and teachers, too-they provide an interesting experience. In his introduction the editor discusses Ovid’s career, the reputation of the Metamorphoses during Ovid’s time and after, and the various manuscripts that exist or have been known to exist. He describes the general plan of the poem, its main theme, and the problem of its tone. Technical matters, such as style and meter, are also considered. In notes the editor summarizes the story being told before proceeding to the line-by-line textual comments.

Author : Marina Warner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0199266840
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fantastic Metamorphoses, Other Worlds written by Marina Warner and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Metamorphosis is a dynamic principle of creation, vital to natural processes of generation and evolution, growth and decay, yet it also threatens personal identity if human beings are subject to a continual process of bodily transformation. Shape-shifting also belongs in the landscape ofmagic, witchcraft, and wonder, and enlivens classical mythology, early modern fairy tales and uncanny fictions of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This collection of essays, given as the Clarendon Lectures in English 2001, takes four dominant processes of metamorphosis: Mutating, Hatching,Splitting, and Doubling, and explores their metaphorical power in the evication of human personality. Marina Warner traces this story against a background of historical encounters with different cultures, especially with the Caribbean. Beginning with Ovid's great poem, The Metamorphoses, as thefounding text of the metamorphic tradition, she takes us on a journey of exploration, into the fantastic art of Hieronymous Bosch, the legends of the Taino people, the life cycle of the butterfly, the myth of Leda and the Swan, the genealogy of the Zombie, the pantomime of Aladdin, the haunting ofdoppelgangers, the coming of photography, and the late fiction of Lewis Carroll.

Author : Elaine Fantham
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190288493
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ovid's Metamorphoses written by Elaine Fantham and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2004-07-15 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Oxford Approaches to Classical Literature (Series Editors: Kathleen Coleman and Richard Rutherford) introduces individual works of Greek and Latin literature to readers who are approaching them for the first time. Each volume sets the work in its literary and historical context, and aims to offer a balanced and engaging assessment of its content, artistry, and purpose. A brief survey of the influence of the work upon subsequent generations is included to demonstrate its enduring relevance and power. All quotations from the original are translated into English. Ovid's Metamorphoses have been seen as both the culmination of and a revolution in the classical epic tradition, transferring narrative interest from war to love and fantasy. This introduction considers how Ovid found and shaped his narrative from the creation of the world to his own sophisticated times, illustrating the cruelty of jealous gods, the pathos of human love, and the imaginative fantasy of flight, monsters, magic, and illusion. Elaine Fantham introduces the reader not only to this marvelous and complex narrative poem, but to the Greek and Roman traditions behind Ovid's tales of transformation and a selection of the images and texts that it inspired.

Author : Barbara Pavlock
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN 13 : 0299231437
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Image of the Poet in Ovid’s Metamorphoses written by Barbara Pavlock and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 2009-05-21 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Barbara Pavlock unmasks major figures in Ovid’s Metamorphoses as surrogates for his narrative persona, highlighting the conflicted revisionist nature of the Metamorphoses. Although Ovid ostensibly validates traditional customs and institutions, instability is in fact a defining feature of both the core epic values and his own poetics. The Image of the Poet explores issues central to Ovid’s poetics—the status of the image, the generation of plots, repetition, opposition between refined and inflated epic style, the reliability of the narrative voice, and the interrelation of rhetoric and poetry. The work explores the constructed author and complements recent criticism focusing on the reader in the text. 2009 Outstanding Academic Title, Choice Magazine