Format:
Online-Ressource (290 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2013 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
9781107009530
Content:
This comprehensive study establishes the importance of an unexpected genre, tragedy, in the career of the most mercurial Western poet
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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Cover; Tragedy in Ovid; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Abbreviations; Chapter one Mutatas dicere formas; 1 Theater and metatheater; 2 Sources and genres; 3 Tension and synergy; 4 Decoding tragedy; Chapter two Nunc habeam per te Romana Tragoedia nomen; 1 Repetition and innovation; 2 Careerism and gentrification; 3 The Medea of Ovid; 4 Textualization and transformation; Chapter three Lacrimas finge videre meas; 1 Writing within margins; 2 The pathos of love; 3 Myth; 4 Irony; 5 Heroides "22" and the theater of epic; Chapter four Locus exstat et ex re nomen habet; 1 Places in view
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2 Hecabe: off-center stage3 Hercules: tragedy displaced; 4 Medea: the limits of tragedy; Chapter five Tollens ad sidera palmas exclamat; 1 Talking to oneself; 2 Medea: a heroine's debut; 3 Hecabe: a mother's lament; 4 Hercules: a heroic body of work; Chapter six Medeae Medea forem; 1 Intratextual footnotes; 2 Iphigenia and Polyxena: (re)playing the victim; 3 Medea and Deianira: pernicious text(ile)s; 4 Deianira(s) and Hercules: expanding the intratext; Chapter seven Carmen et error; 1 Ovid as a tragic poet; 2 Staging imperium: Vergil, Ovid, and Seneca; 3 Exodos; Bibliography
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Index of passages discussedGeneral index
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781107247451
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781107009530
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Tragedy in Ovid Theater, Metatheater, and the Transformation of a Genre
Language:
English
Keywords:
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