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  1. Playing gods
    Ovid's Metamorphoses and the politics of fiction
    Published: 2010
    Publisher:  Princeton University Press, Princeton, N.J. ; EBSCO Industries, Inc., Birmingham, AL, USA

    This book offers a novel interpretation of politics and identity in Ovid's epic poem of transformations, the Metamorphoses. Reexamining the emphatically fictional character of the poem, Playing Gods argues that Ovid uses the problem of fiction in the... more

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    This book offers a novel interpretation of politics and identity in Ovid's epic poem of transformations, the Metamorphoses. Reexamining the emphatically fictional character of the poem, Playing Gods argues that Ovid uses the problem of fiction in the text to redefine the power of poetry in Augustan Rome. The book also provides the fullest account yet of how the poem relates to the range of cultural phenomena that defined and projected Augustan authority, including spectacle, theater, and the visual arts. Andrew Feldherr argues that a key to the political as well as literary power of the Metamo.

     

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    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
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    ISBN: 9781400836543; 1400836549; 0691138141; 9780691138145
    RVK Categories: FX 191405
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (x, 377 pages)
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    Includes bibliographical references and indexes

  2. Playing gods
    Ovid's Metamorphoses and the politics of fiction
    Published: ©2010
    Publisher:  Princeton University Press, Princeton, N.J.

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    Language: English
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    ISBN: 1400836549; 9780691138145; 9781400836543
    RVK Categories: FX 191405
    Subjects: 43 B.C.-17 or 18 A.D.; Fables, Latin; History and criticism; Metamorphoses; Ovid; Politics and literature; Rome; Literature; TRAVEL / Special Interest / Literary; LITERARY CRITICISM / General; LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical; Metamorphoses (Ovid); Fables, Latin; Politics and literature; Literatur; Fables, Latin; Politics and literature; Politik <Motiv>
    Other subjects: Ovid (43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D.): Metamorphoses; Ovidius Naso, Publius (v43-17): Metamorphoses
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (x, 377 pages)
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    Includes bibliographical references and indexes

    Introduction -- Fiction and empire. Metamorphosis and fiction -- Wavering identity -- Spectacle. Homo spectator -- Poets in the arena -- Philomela again? -- Ovid and the visual arts. Faith in images -- "Songs the greater image" -- Conclusion

    This book offers a novel interpretation of politics and identity in Ovid's epic poem of transformations, the Metamorphoses. Reexamining the emphatically fictional character of the poem, Playing Gods argues that Ovid uses the problem of fiction in the text to redefine the power of poetry in Augustan Rome. The book also provides the fullest account yet of how the poem relates to the range of cultural phenomena that defined and projected Augustan authority, including spectacle, theater, and the visual arts. Andrew Feldherr argues that a key to the political as well as literary power of the Metamo

  3. Playing Gods
    Ovid's Metamorphoses and the Politics of Fiction
    Published: 2010
    Publisher:  Princeton University Press, Princeton, N.J.

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    ISBN: 9781400836543
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    Subjects: Politik <Motiv>
    Other subjects: Ovidius Naso, Publius (v43-17): Metamorphoses
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    Main description: This book offers a novel interpretation of politics and identity in Ovid's epic poem of transformations, the Metamorphoses. Reexamining the emphatically fictional character of the poem, Playing Gods argues that Ovid uses the problem of fiction in the text to redefine the power of poetry in Augustan Rome. The book also provides the fullest account yet of how the poem relates to the range of cultural phenomena that defined and projected Augustan authority, including spectacle, theater, and the visual arts. Andrew Feldherr argues that a key to the political as well as literary power of the Metamorphoses is the way it manipulates its readers' awareness that its stories cannot possibly be true. By continually juxtaposing the imaginary and the real, Ovid shows how a poem made up of fictions can and cannot acquire the authority and presence of other discursive forms. One important way that the poem does this is through narratives that create a "double vision" by casting characters as both mythical figures and enduring presences in the physical landscapes of its readers. This narrative device creates the kind of tensions between identification and distance that Augustan Romans would have felt when experiencing imperial spectacle and other contemporary cultural forms. Full of original interpretations, Playing Gods constructs a model for political readings of fiction that will be useful not only to classicists but to literary theorists and cultural historians in other fields

  4. Playing gods
    Ovid's Metamorphoses and the politics of fiction
    Published: c2010
    Publisher:  Princeton University Press, Princeton, N.J

    This book offers a novel interpretation of politics and identity in Ovid's epic poem of transformations, the Metamorphoses. Reexamining the emphatically fictional character of the poem, Playing Gods argues that Ovid uses the problem of fiction in the... more

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    This book offers a novel interpretation of politics and identity in Ovid's epic poem of transformations, the Metamorphoses. Reexamining the emphatically fictional character of the poem, Playing Gods argues that Ovid uses the problem of fiction in the text to redefine the power of poetry in Augustan Rome. The book also provides the fullest account yet of how the poem relates to the range of cultural phenomena that defined and projected Augustan authority, including spectacle, theater, and the visual arts. Andrew Feldherr argues that a key to the political as well as literary power of the Metamo

     

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    Ovid's Metamorphoses and the Politics of Fiction
    Published: 2010; ©2010.
    Publisher:  Princeton University Press, Princeton, N.J.

    Main description: This book offers a novel interpretation of politics and identity in Ovid's epic poem of transformations, the Metamorphoses. Reexamining the emphatically fictional character of the poem, Playing Gods argues that Ovid uses the problem... more

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    Main description: This book offers a novel interpretation of politics and identity in Ovid's epic poem of transformations, the Metamorphoses. Reexamining the emphatically fictional character of the poem, Playing Gods argues that Ovid uses the problem of fiction in the text to redefine the power of poetry in Augustan Rome. The book also provides the fullest account yet of how the poem relates to the range of cultural phenomena that defined and projected Augustan authority, including spectacle, theater, and the visual arts. Andrew Feldherr argues that a key to the political as well as literary power of the Metamorphoses is the way it manipulates its readers' awareness that its stories cannot possibly be true. By continually juxtaposing the imaginary and the real, Ovid shows how a poem made up of fictions can and cannot acquire the authority and presence of other discursive forms. One important way that the poem does this is through narratives that create a "double vision" by casting characters as both mythical figures and enduring presences in the physical landscapes of its readers. This narrative device creates the kind of tensions between identification and distance that Augustan Romans would have felt when experiencing imperial spectacle and other contemporary cultural forms. Full of original interpretations, Playing Gods constructs a model for political readings of fiction that will be useful not only to classicists but to literary theorists and cultural historians in other fields.

     

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781400836543
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    9781400836543
    Subjects: Politics and literature; LITERARY CRITICISM; TRAVEL; Fables, Latin; LITERARY CRITICISM
    Scope: Online-Ressource (384 S.)