A discourse of wonders : audience and performance in Ovid's Metamorphoses / Stephen M. Wheeler.

In A Discourse of Wonders, Stephen M. Wheeler introduces a fresh perspective for readers of Ovid's Metamorphoses. Drawing on classical scholarship and twentieth-century literary theory, he argues that the poem is not an anthology or collection but a single continuous performance. Wheeler's...

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Main Author: Wheeler, Stephen Michael, 1962-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©1999.
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504 |a Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-258) and indexes. 
505 0 |a Chapter 1: Metamorphosis in the reader -- Chapter 2: The fiction of viva-voce performance -- Chapter 3: The divided audience -- Chapter 4: Assembling an audience -- Chapter 5: Discourse and time -- Chapter 6: Directions to the audience -- Chapter 7: The danger of disbelief -- Chapter 8: Translating past into present. 
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