Ovid and the Moderns
Theodore Ziolkowski
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Description for Ovid and the Moderns
Hardback. Num Pages: 288 pages, 1. BIC Classification: DS. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 162 x 24. Weight in Grams: 520.
"The reasons for the conspicuous popularity of Ovid—his life as well as his works—at the turn of the new millennium bear investigation.... This book speaks of the new bodies assumed in the twentieth century by the poems and tales to which Ovid gave their classic form—including prominently the account of his own life, which has been hailed by many writers of our time as the archetype of exile.... I intend to suggest some of the reasons for Ovid's appeal to different writers and different generations."—from the PrefaceTheodore Ziolkowski approaches Ovid's Latin poetry as a comparatist, not as a classicist, and ... Read more
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Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
Ithaca, United States
ISBN
9780801442742
SKU
V9780801442742
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About Theodore Ziolkowski
Theodore Ziolkowski is Class of 1900 Professor Emeritus of German and Comparative Literature at Princeton University. He is the author most recently of Hesitant Heroes: Private Inhibition, Cultural Crisis and Clio the Romantic Muse: Historicizing the Faculties in Germany (both from Cornell). His many other books include Virgil and the Moderns, The Mirror of Justice, and The Sin of Knowledge. ... Read more
Reviews for Ovid and the Moderns
Ziolkowski hails a new Ovidian age, a revival that he traces... to the eve of WWI.... But Ovid enters more directly into modern literature in the person of James Joyce's Stephen Daedalus.... Ziolkowski uncovers a daunting profusion of writings of Ovidian inspiration and, as usual, treats the reader to a great banquet of themes and titles to be perused in ... Read more