{"product_id":"the-metamorphosis-of-persephone-ovid-and-the-self-conscious-muse-paperback-9780521036238","title":"The Metamorphosis of Persephone; Ovid and the Self-conscious Muse (Paperback \/ softback) 9780521036238","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Metamorphosis of Persephone\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eOvid and the Self-conscious Muse\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA close study of Ovid's poetry.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eStephen Hinds (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521036238, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 7 May 2007\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e200 pages\u003cbr\u003e21.6 x 14 x 1.3 cm, 0.266 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eOvid, 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.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eAcknowledgements\u003cbr\u003e Preface\u003cbr\u003e Part I. Two Settings for a Rape: 1. Metamorphoses 5.256–64: the Heliconian fount\u003cbr\u003e 2. Metamorphoses 5.385–91: the landscape of Enna\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Ovid's Two Persephones: 3. The Homeric Hymn to Demeter: Fasti 4\u003cbr\u003e 4. The Homeric Hymn to Demeter: Metamorphoses 5\u003cbr\u003e 5. Elegy and epic: a traditional approach\u003cbr\u003e 6. Elegy and epic: a new approach\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Works cited\u003cbr\u003e Index of passages discussed\u003cbr\u003e Index of subjects.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Literary studies: classical, early \u0026amp; medieval [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Literary studies: classical, early \u0026amp; medieval\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Literary%20studies:%20classical,%20early%20\u0026amp;%20medieval%20%5BDSBB%5D%22\"\u003eDSBB\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46003939016984,"sku":"9780521036238","price":33.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521036238i_e0aa4fe2-8f64-4e88-b51e-1a31fe91243d.jpg?v=1694968350","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-metamorphosis-of-persephone-ovid-and-the-self-conscious-muse-paperback-9780521036238","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}