Silenced voices : the poetics of speech in Ovid /
Silenced Voices is a pointed examination of the loss of speech, exile from community, and memory throughout the literary corpus of the Roman poet Ovid. In his book-length poem Metamorphoses, characters are transformed in ways that include losing their power of human speech. In Tristia and Epistulae...
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Language: | English |
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Madison, Wisconsin :
The University of Wisconsin Press,
[2017]
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| Series: | Wisconsin studies in classics.
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| Online Access: | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=1589654 |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Speech and Speech Loss in Ancient Rome; 2. Speech Loss in the Metamorphoses; 3. Speech Loss in the Exile Literature; 4. Speech Loss and Memory in the Exile Literature; Notes; Works Cited; Appendix: Instances of Speech Loss in the Metamorphoses; Index; Index Locorum.