Ovidian Transformations
Ovidian Transformations
Essays on Ovid's Metamorphoses and its Reception
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An important collection of essays on Ovid's Metamorphoses and its reception.
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An important collection of essays on Ovid's Metamorphoses and its reception.
Table of contents
  • Cover
  • Title Page
  • Contents
  • List of Contributors
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • Part I: The World
    • A. Time
      • Chapter 1: Mea Tempora: Patterning of Time in the Metamorphoses
      • Chapter 2: Problems of Time in Metamorphoses 2
      • Chapter 3: After Exile: Time and Teleology from Metamorphoses to Ibis
    • B. Charting the World
      • Chapter 4: Creation and Recreation: Medieval Responses to Metamorphoses 1.5–88
      • Chapter 5: Drayton’s Chorographical Ovid
    • C. Holding the Centre
      • Chapter 6: Ovid’s Metamorphoses and Augustan Cultural Thematics
      • Chapter 7: Venus’ Masterplot: Ovid and the Homeric Hymns
  • Part II: The Self
    • D. Bodies
      • Chapter 8: The Ovidian Corpus: Poetic Body and Poetic Text
      • Chapter 9: Closure and Transformation in Ovid’s Metamorphoses
      • Chapter 10: ‘Somatic Economies’: Tragic Bodies and Poetic Design in Ovid’s Metamorphoses
      • Chapter 11: The Creation of the Self in Ovid and Proust
    • E. Sexuality and Gender
      • Chapter 12: Reading Resistance in Ovid’s Metamorphoses
      • Chapter 13: Versions of Epic Masculinity in Ovid’s Metamorphoses
  • Part III: The Text
    • F. Poetics and Metamorphosis
      • Chapter 14: Form in Motion: Weaving the Text in the Metamorphoses
      • Chapter 15: Ovid Into Laura: Absent Presences in the Metamorphoses and Petrarch’s Rime Sparse
      • Chapter 16: ‘Full of the Maker’s Guile’: Ovid on Imitating and on the Imitation of Ovid
    • G. Scholars and Poets
      • Chapter 17: Nicolaas Heinsius and the Rhetoric of Textual Criticism
      • Chapter 18: CH-CH-CH-Changes
  • Bibliography
  • Back Cover

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