A discourse of wonders
audience and performance in Ovid's Metamorphoses
by Stephen Michael Wheeler
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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 thorough, detailed analysis of how Ovid constructs, cultivates, and transforms his audience challenges the assumption that Ovid's narrative persona addresses the reader.
Wheeler proposes instead that Ovid represents himself in the poem as an epic storyteller moved to tell a universal history of metamorphosis in the presence of a fictional audience.
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A discourse of wonders: audience and performance in Ovid's Metamorphoses
1999, University of Pennsylvania Press
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0812234758 9780812234756
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [241]-258) and indexes.
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