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 ...
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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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Good Condition. Dust jacket fully intact, only lightly rubbed at edges. Ownership inscription on first inside page. Slight page tanning, but text is otherwise clean and unmarked. In reasonably good order overall. xiii, 182 pp. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Literature & Literary; Persephone (Greek deity); Literature; Metamorphosis in literature; Metamorphoses (Ovid); Fables, Latin; ISBN: 052133506X. ISBN/EAN: 9780521335065. Add. Inventory No: 231101HAD2-4119.
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Reader copy. Ex library hardback with DJ; usual stamps/markings. Pages are tanned otherwise a good, clean copy. Ready for immediate despatch from UK. 9F*
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This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside. This book has hardback covers. Book contains pencil markings. In poor condition, suitable as a reading copy. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item, 400grams, ISBN: 052133506X.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987. First edition, first printing, 1987, with an inscription signed by the author to Yale Classics scholar Joseph Solodow. Blue hardcover with dustjacket. Very good condition with good hinges, firm text block, uniformly age-toned pages, dust darkening to top edge of text block, Solodow's name also written at the top of the title page, pages otherwise clean and unmarked. The mylar protected dustjacket has some uneven fading and light soil, foxing to the dustjacket flap edges, no chips or tears. Inscribed by the Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall.
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Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 052133506X. Pages tanned. Scholar's bookplate to inner cover (G. P. Goold). DJ a bit sunned.; Cambridge Classical Studies; 200 pages; Although Ovid is currently enjoying a new wave of popularity, most critics withhold from his poetry the close word-by-word readings that are necessary for a thorough understanding of it. Ovid twice treated the myth of Persephone, and Hinds's book is at first a historical inquiry--the most extensive yet done--into the double transformation in Metamorphosis 5 and Fasti 4 of the rape of Persephone, one of the great Graeco-Roman myths. The study continues as a critical exploration of Ovid's self-conscious delight in language and in writing manifested in these twin narratives, providing a feast for students of both Latin poetry and narratives in general.
