Speaking Volumes: Narrative and Intertext in Ovid and Other Latin PoetsBloomsbury Academic, 2001 M09 28 - 206 páginas In a poem written in exile, Ovid pictures his latest book in conversation with his previous volumes, united in the bookcase containing his collected works back in Rome. One can imagine their dialogue - in the protected space of the whispering bookcase - as loaded with allusion and intertextuality. Speaking Volumes, a collection of essays by the distinguished classicist Alessandro Barchiesi, here translated into English for the first time, examines Ovid and his 'rationalistic art of allusion' along with intertextuality in Latin literature more generally, and in the wider context of the Graeco-Roman tradition. Professor Barchiesi provides fresh perspectives on the literary self-consciousness of the Latin poets, the allusive density of their texts, and the conflict between poetry and power in the Augustan age. The conflict between classicists and the texts they comment on, argue over and theorise about is also revealingly examined. Among the recurring topics in this challenging book, which will be of interest to all those studying classical literature and literary criticism, are the impact of intertextuality on the form of epic and epistle, the strategic significance of allusive poetics in a political context, and the importance of reading and interpretation as poetic themes. |
Contenido
Preface | 7 |
Narrativity and Convention in the Heroides | 29 |
Voices and Narrative Instances in the Metamorphoses | 49 |
Derechos de autor | |
Otras 8 secciones no mostradas
Términos y frases comunes
Achelous Achilles Acontius addressee Aeneas Aeneid Aitia allusion already Amores Apollo Apollonius Ariadne arma audience Augustan Augustan poetry Augustus Barchiesi becomes Briseis Caesar Calli Callimachean Callimachus carmen carmina Catullan Catullus character Circe context critics culture Cydippe Deianira didactic Dido discourse ecphrasis elegiac elegy Ennius epic epigram episode epistle erotic example famous Fasti genre Greek Heracles hero Heroides Homer Horace Horace's Iliad implications interpretation intertextual ironic irony Kenney Latin letter literary Medea Metamorphoses mihi myth Naevius narrative narrator nunc Odysseus Orpheus Ovid Ovid's Ovidian passage Penelope perspective plot poem poetic poetry Princeps problem proem programmatic Propertius prophecy Pythagoras quae quid quoque reader reading reference Remedia role Roman poet Rome Silius speak Statius story Tecmessa textual theme Theseus tibi Tibullus tion topos tradition tragedy tragic Tristia Trojan Valerius vidi Virgil Virgilian voice words writing