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The Resource The face of nature : wit, narrative, and cosmic origins in Ovid's Metamorphoses, Garth Tissol

The face of nature : wit, narrative, and cosmic origins in Ovid's Metamorphoses, Garth Tissol

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Summary
"In these reflections on the mercurial qualities of style in Ovid's Metamorphoses, Garth Tissol contends that stylistic features of the ever-shifting narrative surface, such as worldplay, 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."--Jacket
Language
eng
Work
Publication
Extent
xii, 238 pages
Contents
  • Self-Cancelling and Self-Objectifying Witticisms.
  • Wordplay, Personification, and Phantasia.
  • True Imitation: Ceyx, Alcyone, and Morpheus.
  • The House of Reception
  • Ch. 2.
  • The Ass's Shadow: Narrative Disruption and Its Consequences.
  • Some Exemplary Interruptions.
  • Daedalus and Perdix.
  • Cyclopean Violence and Narrative Disruption.
  • Some Scandalous Passages
  • Ch. 1.
  • Ch. 3.
  • Disruptive Traditions
  • Glittering Trifles: Verbal Wit and Physical Transformation.
  • Transgressive Language: Narcissus and Althea.
  • Indecorous and Transformative Puns.
  • Misunderstanding aura: Cephalus, Procris, and the Pun.
  • Divinatory Wordplay: The Pun Overheard.
  • Vox non intellecta: Irony and Metamorphic Wordplay (Myrrha).
  • Littera scripta manet -- Or Does It? (Byblis).
Isbn
9780691011028
Instance
Label
The face of nature : wit, narrative, and cosmic origins in Ovid's Metamorphoses
Title
The face of nature
Title remainder
wit, narrative, and cosmic origins in Ovid's Metamorphoses
Statement of responsibility
Garth Tissol
Creator
Subject
Genre
Language
eng
Summary
"In these reflections on the mercurial qualities of style in Ovid's Metamorphoses, Garth Tissol contends that stylistic features of the ever-shifting narrative surface, such as worldplay, 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."--Jacket
Cataloging source
DLC
http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
1953-
http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
Tissol, Garth
Index
index present
LC call number
PA6519.M9
LC item number
T57 1997
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
bibliography
http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
  • Ovid
  • Ovid
  • Ovid
  • Ovid
  • Ovid
  • Ovide
  • Ovide
  • Ovid
  • Latin wit and humor
  • Mythology, Classical, in literature
  • Cosmology, Ancient, in literature
  • Narration (Rhetoric)
  • Metamorphosis in literature
  • Latin language
  • Rhetoric, Ancient
  • Humour latin
  • Mythologie ancienne dans la littérature
  • Cosmologie antique dans la littérature
  • Métamorphose dans la littérature
  • Latin (Langue)
  • Narration
  • Rhétorique ancienne
  • Metamorphoses (Ovidius)
  • Stijlen
  • Cosmology, Ancient, in literature
  • Latin language
  • Latin wit and humor
  • Metamorphosis in literature
  • Mythology, Classical, in literature
  • Narration (Rhetoric)
  • Rhetoric, Ancient
  • Literary style
Label
The face of nature : wit, narrative, and cosmic origins in Ovid's Metamorphoses, Garth Tissol
Instantiates
Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [223]-230) and indexes
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
  • Self-Cancelling and Self-Objectifying Witticisms.
  • Wordplay, Personification, and Phantasia.
  • True Imitation: Ceyx, Alcyone, and Morpheus.
  • The House of Reception
  • Ch. 2.
  • The Ass's Shadow: Narrative Disruption and Its Consequences.
  • Some Exemplary Interruptions.
  • Daedalus and Perdix.
  • Cyclopean Violence and Narrative Disruption.
  • Some Scandalous Passages
  • Ch. 1.
  • Ch. 3.
  • Disruptive Traditions
  • Glittering Trifles: Verbal Wit and Physical Transformation.
  • Transgressive Language: Narcissus and Althea.
  • Indecorous and Transformative Puns.
  • Misunderstanding aura: Cephalus, Procris, and the Pun.
  • Divinatory Wordplay: The Pun Overheard.
  • Vox non intellecta: Irony and Metamorphic Wordplay (Myrrha).
  • Littera scripta manet -- Or Does It? (Byblis).
Dimensions
25 cm
Extent
xii, 238 pages
Isbn
9780691011028
Isbn Type
(cloth : acid-free paper)
Lccn
96026943
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
System control number
  • (OCoLC)34974582
  • (OCoLC)ocm34974582
Label
The face of nature : wit, narrative, and cosmic origins in Ovid's Metamorphoses, Garth Tissol
Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [223]-230) and indexes
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
  • Self-Cancelling and Self-Objectifying Witticisms.
  • Wordplay, Personification, and Phantasia.
  • True Imitation: Ceyx, Alcyone, and Morpheus.
  • The House of Reception
  • Ch. 2.
  • The Ass's Shadow: Narrative Disruption and Its Consequences.
  • Some Exemplary Interruptions.
  • Daedalus and Perdix.
  • Cyclopean Violence and Narrative Disruption.
  • Some Scandalous Passages
  • Ch. 1.
  • Ch. 3.
  • Disruptive Traditions
  • Glittering Trifles: Verbal Wit and Physical Transformation.
  • Transgressive Language: Narcissus and Althea.
  • Indecorous and Transformative Puns.
  • Misunderstanding aura: Cephalus, Procris, and the Pun.
  • Divinatory Wordplay: The Pun Overheard.
  • Vox non intellecta: Irony and Metamorphic Wordplay (Myrrha).
  • Littera scripta manet -- Or Does It? (Byblis).
Dimensions
25 cm
Extent
xii, 238 pages
Isbn
9780691011028
Isbn Type
(cloth : acid-free paper)
Lccn
96026943
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
System control number
  • (OCoLC)34974582
  • (OCoLC)ocm34974582

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