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Tissol The Face of Nature
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Wit, Narrative, and Cosmic Origins in Ovid's Metamorphoses
E-Book, Englisch, 252 Seiten
Reihe: Princeton Legacy Library
ISBN: 978-1-4008-6461-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
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In these reflections on the mercurial qualities of style in Ovid's Meta-morphoses, Garth Tissol contends that stylistic features of the ever-shifting narrative surface, such as wordplay, narrative disruption, and the self-conscious reworking of the poetic tradition, are thematically significant. It is the style that makes the process of reading the work a changing, transformative experience, as it both embodies and reflects the poem's presentation of the world as defined by instability and flux. Tissol deftly illustrates that far from being merely ornamental, style is as much a site for interpretation as any other element of Ovid's art.
In the first chapter, Tissol argues that verbal wit and wordplay are closely linked to Ovidian metamorphoses. Wit challenges the ordinary conceptual categories of Ovid's readers, disturbing and extending the meanings and references of words. Thereby it contributes on the stylistic level to the readers' apprehension of flux. On a larger scale, parallel disturbances occur in the progress of narratives. In the second and third chapters, the author examines surprise and abrupt alteration of perspective as important features of narrative style. We experience reading as a transformative process not only in the characteristic indirection and unpredictability of Ovid's narrative but also in the memory of his predecessors. In the fourth chapter, Tissol shows how Ovid subsumes Vergil's Aeneid into the Metamorphoses in an especially rich allusive exploitation, one which contrasts Vergil's aetiological themes with those of his own work.
Originally published in 1997.
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Introduction 3
Ch. 1 Glittering Trifles: Verbal Wit and Physical Transformation 11
Transgressive Language: Narcissus and Althea 11
Indecorous and Transformative Puns 22
Misunderstanding aura: Cephalus, Procris, and the Pun 26
Divinatory Wordplay: The Pun Overheard 30
Vox non intellecta: Irony and Metamorphic Wordplay (Myrrha) 36
Littera scripta manet - Or Does It? (Byblis) 42
Self-Cancelling and Self-Objectifying Witticisms 52
Wordplay, Personification, and Phantasia 61
True Imitation: Ceyx, Alcyone, and Morpheus 72
The House of Reception 85
Ch. 2 The Ass's Shadow: Narrative Disruption and Its Consequences 89
Some Exemplary Interruptions 89
Daedalus and Perdix 97
Cyclopean Violence and Narrative Disruption 105
Some Scandalous Passages 124
Ch. 3 Disruptive Traditions 131
Indecorous Possibilities: Callimachus's Hymn to Artemis and Ovidian Style 131
Elegiac Contributions: Propertius's Tarpeia and Ovid's Scylla 143
Epic Distortions: The Hecale in the Metamorphoses 153
Ch. 4 Deeper Causes: Aetiology and Style 167
Aetiological Wordplay 167
Ovid's Little Aeneid 177
Aetiology and the Nature of Flux 191
Conclusion 215
App. A G. J. Vossius on Syllepsis oratoria 217
App. B Syllepsis and Zeugma 219
App. C Further Examples of Syllepsis in Ovid 221
References 223
Index locorum 231
Index 235
