Playing gods : Ovid's Metamorphoses and the politics of fiction / Andrew Feldherr.
Playing gods : Ovid's Metamorphoses and the politics of fiction / Andrew Feldherr.
Playing gods : Ovid's Metamorphoses and the politics of fiction / Andrew Feldherr.
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Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2010.
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N873.01/20
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English
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x, 377 p. ; 25 cm.
Contents
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.
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Publisher
Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2010.
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New Jersey
Date Published
c2010.
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"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 disc...
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Playing gods : Ovid's Metamorphoses and the politics of fiction / Andrew Feldherr.
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
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c2010.
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N873.01/20
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74Vvr7K8Qqey
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0691138141 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9780691138145 (hardcover : alk. paper)
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873.01
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991011293529702626
