A Discourse of Wonders

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Author	: Stephen M. Wheeler
Publisher	: University of Pennsylvania Press
Total Pages	: 304
Release	: 1999-05-13
ISBN-10	: 0812234758
ISBN-13	: 9780812234756
Rating	: 4/5 (58 Downloads)

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Book Synopsis A Discourse of Wonders by : Stephen M. Wheeler

Book excerpt: 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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