Simile and Identity in Ovid's 'Metamorphoses'. - GLINSKI, Marie Louise von,
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'Simile is the new metaphor. Such is the argument of this fascinating but flawed book on the figure in Ovid's Metamorphoses. Much of the most interesting research on the poem in the last thirty odd years, notably by Rosati, Barkan, Tissol and Hardie, has explored how Ovid's figured and figurative language (syllepsis, paronomasia, and others, but especially metaphor) is reified in the world of the poem and dynamically explores issues of both identity and expression. Building on this work, Marie Louise von Glinski brings the relatively neglected figure of simile to the fore, arguing that it has a special function in explicitly signalling, dramatizing and exploring the gap between the reality and the comparand, between identity and mimesis. Any quest for the master-key which will solve all the Metamorphoses's hermeneutic puzzles is doomed to at best partial success, since the text's own ludic proteanism wriggles free of unity of interpretation as of all other unities. So it is with von Glinski's similes. The mos...
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2016Uitgever: Cambridge University Press180 paginasTaal: EngelsISBN-10: 1316623599ISBN-13: 9781316623596Koop dit boek tweedehands
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Cambridge, 2016. 1st paperback ed. VI,173p. Paperback. [New] [Auteur: GLINSKI, Marie Louise von,] [Uitgever: Cambridge University Press] [Jaar: 2016] [Titel: Simile and Identity in Ovid's 'Metamorphoses'.]
