The enemie of idlenesse [[electronic resource] ] : teaching a perfect platforme how to indite epistles and letters of all sortes: as wel by answere as otherwise: no lesse profitable then pleasant. The whole diuided into foure books now newly published and augmented, by W. F. The contentes appeare in the table as the latter ende thereof. This booke by practise of the pen, and iudgement of the wise stands enemie to idlenesse. And friend to exercise

• Record Nr.: UNISA996392081403316
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Imprinted at London, : By Robert Robinson, Anno. 1593
• Descrizione fisica: [264] p
• Altri autori (Persone): FulwoodWilliam
• Soggetti: Letter writing
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Chiefly a translation of the anonymous: Le stile et maniere de composer, dicter, & escrire toutes sortes d'epistres.; W. F. = William Fulwood.; Book 4 is partly in verse.; Includes index.; Numerous errors in pagination; pagination derived from signature collation.; Signatures: A⁴ B-R.; Reproduction of the original in Cambridge University Library.
• Sommario/riassunto: eebo-0021

Playing gods [[electronic resource] ] : Ovid's Metamorphoses and the politics of fiction / / Andrew Feldherr

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910784938303321
• Autore: Feldherr Andrew <1963->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Princeton, : Princeton University Press, 2010
• ISBN: 1-282-93648-4; 9786612936487; 1-4008-3654-9
• Edizione: [Course Book]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (390 p.)
• Disciplina: 873/.01
• Soggetti: Fables, Latin - History and criticism; Politics and literature - Rome
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part One: Fiction and Empire -- Chapter 1: Metamorphosis and Fiction -- Chapter 2: Wavering Identity -- Part Two: Spectacle -- Chapter 3: Homo Spectator: Sacrifice and the Making of Man -- Chapter 4: Poets in the Arena -- Chapter 5: Philomela Again? -- Part Three: Ovid and the Visual Arts -- Chapter 6: Faith in Images -- Chapter 7: "Songs the Greater Image" -- Conclusion -- References -- Index of Passages Cited -- General Index
• Sommario/riassunto: This book offers a novel interpretation of politics and identity in Ovid's epic poem of transformations, the Metamorphoses. Reexamining the emphatically fictional character of the poem, Playing Gods argues that Ovid uses the problem of fiction in the text to redefine the power of poetry in Augustan Rome. The book also provides the fullest account yet of how the poem relates to the range of cultural phenomena that defined and projected Augustan authority, including spectacle, theater, and the visual arts. Andrew Feldherr argues that a key to the political as well as literary power of the Metamorphoses is the way it manipulates its readers' awareness that its stories cannot possibly be true. By continually juxtaposing the imaginary and the real, Ovid shows how a poem made up of fictions can and cannot acquire the authority and ; presence of other discursive forms. One important way that the poem does this is through narratives that create a "double vision" by casting characters as both mythical figures and enduring presences in the physical landscapes of its readers. This narrative device creates the kind of tensions between identification and distance that Augustan Romans would have felt when experiencing imperial spectacle and other contemporary cultural forms. Full of original interpretations, Playing Gods constructs a model for political readings of fiction that will be useful not only to classicists but to literary theorists and cultural historians in other fields.