Banished Voices : Readings in Ovid's Exile Poetry

Name: Banished Voices
Brand: Cambridge University Press
SKU: 9780521451369
Price: 17300 KES
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ISBN: 9780521451369

by Gareth D. Williams

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Format Hardback

Book Series Cambridge Classical Studies

ISBN-10 0521451361

ISBN-13 9780521451369

Publisher Cambridge University Press

Imprint Cambridge University Press

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Oct 20th, 1994

Print length 248 Pages

Weight 492 grams

Dimensions 22.20 x 14.80 x 2.60 cms

Product Classification: Latin Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval Literary studies: classical, early & medieval Literary studies: poetry & poets Literary studies: poetry and poets

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This study examines the literary complexities of the poetry which Ovid wrote in Tomis, his place of exile after his banishiment from Rome. The author contests Ovid's claims of the terminal decline of his art through close analysis of the literary manoeuvres contradicting his prose, counteracting traditional scholarly antipathy to these poems.

This study examines the literary complexities of the poetry which Ovid wrote in Tomis, his place of exile on the coast of the Black Sea after he was banished from Rome by the emperor Augustus in AD 8 because of the alleged salaciousness of the Ars Amatoria and a mysterious misdemeanour which is nowhere explained. Exile transforms Ovid into a melancholic poet of despair who claims that his creative faculties are in terminal decline. But research has exposed the ironic disjunction between many of the poet's claims and the latent artistry which belies them. Through a series of close readings which offer an analytical contribution to the scholarly evaluation of the exile poetry, Dr Williams examines the nature and the extent of Ovidian irony in Tomis and demonstrates the complex literary designs which are consistently disguised under a veil of dissimulation.

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