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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Ovid’s Metamorphoses"”.
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The Poetics of Geography in Ovid’s Metamorphoses
… of the physical world—plays a major role in Ovid’s Metamorphoses, a poem as expansive in space as it is in time. Geographical themes extend throughout the poem, which begins with cosmogony and ends with poetic immortality underpinned by the spaces of the Roman empire. In Ovid’s verses we find …
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Lucretian stillness and motion as political metaphors in Ovid’s Metamorphoses
… the contrast between stillness and motion in Ovid’s Metamorphoses as well as its connection to two other polarities in the poem: silence–sound and stagnation–fluidity. I argue that Ovid treats these three polarities as analogous and gives them political meaning, with stillness representing …
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Reverence and Heresy: The Illustrations of Printed Editions of Ovid’s Metamorphoses in Cinquecento Venice
… During this epoch of tumultuous change, Ovid’s Metamorphoses gripped the imagination of many, becoming one of the most influential texts of the period. In this thesis, I set out to question how the illustrations of vernacular printed editions of Metamorphoses changed throughout the course …
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Reverence and Heresy: The Illustrations of Printed Editions of Ovid’s Metamorphoses in Cinquecento Venice
… During this epoch of tumultuous change, Ovid’s Metamorphoses gripped the imagination of many, becoming one of the most influential texts of the period. In this thesis, I set out to question how the illustrations of vernacular printed editions of Metamorphoses changed throughout the course …
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Grammatical Gender and Transformation in Ovid's "Metamorphoses"
Ovid’s Metamorphoses offers a meandering sequence of mythological transformations with no formal scheme – or so scholars have long thought. This thesis wagers that the poem does offer a scheme for understanding the world, which lies in the relationship between the biological sex and social gender …
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A Commentary on the first 118 lines of John of Garland's Integumenta Ovidii
An important text for understanding Ovidian reception in the Middle Ages is John of Garland’s Integumenta Ovidii, a 13th century Latin poem that allegorizes the myths of Ovid’s Metamorphoses. The Integumenta has received little scholarly attention, with the most recent edition having been published …
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Looking with Narcissus: Oscar Wilde’s Reception of the Dying God
… argues that Wilde’s use of the Orpheus story in Ovid’s Metamorphoses is revealing about not only Dorian Gray’s but also his author’s troubled relations with both sexes. Chapter 3 shows how Wilde uses Aeschylus’ Agamemnon in his fairy tales and plays to represent unhappy heterosexual relations in …
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Battle narrative in Virgil and Ovid
… sequences from the Aeneid of Virgil and the Metamorphoses of Ovid are examined and analysed with regard to their use of word order, simile, catalogue, and other such stylistic features. The overall aim is to consider Ovid’s literary debt to his immediate epic predecessor Virgil, together with …
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Shakespeare's Air: Sovereignty, Omnipotence, and the Problem of the Other
… and The Tempest (1611), I argue that the air provides a rich resource for addressing the relationship between self and other, offering a space in which experiences of dependency and power can be imaginatively worked out. After an introductory chapter offering a broad overview of the project, …