English and Latin. - Includes bibliographical references (pages 256-261) and indexes. - Online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed November 24, 2013)
Online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed November 24, 2013)
World of Ovid's Metamorphoses
Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; INTRODUCTION; The Propoetides and Pygmalion; Argument and Method; Scholarship on Ovid; CHAPTER ONE: Structures; The Search for Structure; Organizations; Dis-organizations; Story-telling; CHAPTER TWO: The Narrator; How Many Narrators?; Transitions; Epigram; The Narrator's Point of View; Self-doubt and Self-criticism; CHAPTER THREE: Mythology; Anachronism; Romanization; Modernization; Gods and Things Humanized; Intra-mythological References; Wit and Humor; CHAPTER FOUR: Aeneid; Narratives Compared: Storm and Flood; Narratives Compared: Firing the Ships
The Story of AeneasCriticism of Virgil; CHAPTER FIVE: Metamorphosis; Narrative without Morality; Metamorphosis without Morality; A Definition of Metamorphosis; Metamorphosis in Literature; Allegory; CHAPTER SIX: Art; Metamorphosis as Art; Nature as Art; The Figure of the Artist; The Role of Art; Notes; Bibliography; Index of Passages Cited; General Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Z