The face of nature
The face of nature: wit, narrative, and cosmic origins in Ovid's Metamorphoses Garth Tissol
Publisher: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c1997.
ISBN: 0691011028
DDC: 883.01
LCC: PA6519
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [223]-230) and indexes.
Ch. 1. 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). 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. 3. Disruptive Traditions.
Indecorous Possibilities: Callimachus's Hymn to Artemis and Ovidian
Style. Elegiac Contributions: Propertius's Tarpeia and Ovid's Scylla.
Epic Distortions: The Hecale in the Metamorphoses -- Ch. 4. Deeper
Causes: Aetiology and Style. Aetiological Wordplay. Ovid's Little
Aeneid. Aetiology and the Nature of Flux. App. A. G. J. Vossius on
Syllepsis oratoria -- App. B. Syllepsis and Zeugma -- App. C. Further
Examples of Syllepsis in Ovid.
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