Simile and Identity in Ovid's Metamorphoses
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Simile and Identity in Ovid's Metamorphoses

Marie Louise von Glinski

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Simile and Identity in Ovid's Metamorphoses

Marie Louise von Glinski

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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.

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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2012
ISBN
9781139210621
Topic
Littérature
Subtopic
Collections littéraires anciennes et classiques

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APA 6 Citation

von Glinski, M. L. (2012). Simile and Identity in Ovid’s Metamorphoses ([edition unavailable]). Cambridge University Press. Retrieved from https://www.perlego.com/book/4224288 (Original work published 2012)

Chicago Citation

Glinski, Marie Louise von. (2012) 2012. Simile and Identity in Ovid’s Metamorphoses. [Edition unavailable]. Cambridge University Press. https://www.perlego.com/book/4224288.

Harvard Citation

von Glinski, M. L. (2012) Simile and Identity in Ovid’s Metamorphoses. [edition unavailable]. Cambridge University Press. Available at: https://www.perlego.com/book/4224288 (Accessed: 14 June 2024).

MLA 7 Citation

von Glinski, Marie Louise. Simile and Identity in Ovid’s Metamorphoses. [edition unavailable]. Cambridge University Press, 2012. Web. 14 June 2024.