The Metamorphosis of Persephone

The Metamorphosis of Persephone
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 200
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ISBN-10 : 052133506X
ISBN-13 : 9780521335065
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Download or read book The Metamorphosis of Persephone written by Stephen Hinds and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1987-09-03 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ovid, a poet unashamedly in love in poetry, including his own, has enjoyed a recent renaissance in popularity. Yet there is still a certain tendency amongst critics to withhold from his writing the close, word-by-word, engagement which is its due. The primary aim of The Metamorphosis of Persephone is to celebrate this poet's detailed verbal art. Ovid twice treated the myth of Persephone. Dr Hinds' work is a close reading of the account in Metamorphoses 5. The book is at once a literary historical enquiry into the double transformation of the rape of Persephone, and a critical exploration of the self-conscious delight in language and in writing manifested in and between these twin Ovidian narratives. This attractively written and subtly nuanced literary study, which offers many quiet challenges to established modes of reading Latin narrative poetry, will be of interest both to scholars of Latin and to students of narrative in other languages.


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