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Barbara Pavlock unmasks major figures in Ovid’s Metamorphoses as surrogates for his narrative persona, highlighting the conflicted revisionist nature of the Metamorphoses. Although Ovid ostensibly validates traditional customs and institutions, instability is in fact a defining feature of both the core epic values and his own poetics. The Image of the Poet explores issues central to Ovid’s poetics—the status of the image, the generation of plots, repetition, opposition between refined and inflat

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Author

Barbara Pavlock

Publisher

University of Wisconsin Press

Published

2009

Language

EN

ISBN

9780299231439

Category

literary studies

Subjects

Poetry, Literary Fiction, Literary Criticism

Updated

2026-03-25