Repeat Performances
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Repeat Performances

Ovidian Repetition and the Metamorphoses

  1. 272 pages
  2. English
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Repeat Performances

Ovidian Repetition and the Metamorphoses

About this book

Although repetition is found in all ancient literary genres, it is especially pervasive in epic poetry. Ovid's Metamorphoses exploits this dimension of the epic genre to a great extent; past critics have faulted it as too filled with recycled themes and language. This volume seeks a deeper understanding of Ovidian repetitiveness in the context of new scholarship on intertextuality and intratextuality, examining the purposeful reuse of previous material and the effects produced by a text's repetitive gestures.
            A shared vision of the possibilities of Latin epic poetry unites the essays, as does a series of attempts to realize those opportunities. Some of the pieces represent a traditional vein of allusion and intertextuality; others are more innovative in their approaches. Each, in a sense, stands as a placeholder for a methodology of theorizing the repetitive practices of poetry, of epic, and of Ovid in particular.

Contributors: Antony Augoustakis, Neil W. Bernstein, Barbara Weiden Boyd, Andrew Feldherr, Peter Heslin, Stephen Hinds, Sharon L. James, Alison Keith, Peter E. Knox, Darcy Krasne

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Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Preface
  3. Introduction: Echoes of the Past / Laurel Fulkerson and Tim Stover
  4. 1. Nothing like the Sun: Repetition and Representation in Ovid’s Phaethon Narrative / Andrew Feldherr
  5. 2. Repeat after Me: The Loves of Venus and Mars in Ars amatoria 2 and Metamorphoses 4 / Barbara Weiden Boyd
  6. 3. Ovid’s Cycnus and Homer’s Achilles Heel / Peter Heslin
  7. 4. Loca luminis haurit: Ovid’s Recycling of Hecuba / Antony Augoustakis
  8. 5. Succeeding Succession: Cosmic and Earthly Succession in the Fasti and Metamorphoses / Darcy Krasne
  9. 6. Rape and Repetition in Ovid’s Metamorphoses: Myth, History, Structure, Rome / Sharon L. James
  10. 7. Metamorphoses in a Cold Climate / Peter E. Knox
  11. 8. Ovidian Itineraries in Flavian Epic / Alison Keith
  12. 9. Revisiting Ovidian Silius, along with Lucretian, Vergilian, and Lucanian Silius / Neil W. Bernstein
  13. 10. Return to Enna: Ovid and Ovidianism in Claudian’s De raptu Proserpinae / Stephen Hinds
  14. Works Cited
  15. Contributors
  16. Index
  17. Index Locorum