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Understanding trauma and catharsis in ovid's metamorphoses 10 : a fantasy reading
Thesis (DLitt)--University of Pretoria, 2020.
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| spelling | oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/75556 Understanding trauma and catharsis in ovid's metamorphoses 10 : a fantasy reading Kritzinger, J.P.K. credesemper@gmail.com Haskins, Susan Pieterse, Andries Daniel UCTD Latin Humanities theses SDG-03 SDG-03: Good health and well-being Thesis (DLitt)--University of Pretoria, 2020. Notwithstanding the extensive research done on Ovid’s Metamorphoses, only a few scholars have attempted to discuss the frequent presence of trauma and catharsis in the episodes of the Metamorphoses. The hypothesis in this thesis is that the reader can participate in the cathartic responses of the characters to traumatic experiences in the episodes of Ovid’s Metamorphoses 10, through entering the sub-created world in the narrative. The hypothesis is tested by reading Ovid’s Metamorphoses, and especially Book 10, through a fantasy perspective based on Tolkien’s concept of sub-creation. The method to be used in the investigation of the Latin text is a combination of an intratextual and a narratological analysis. Episodes with a traumatic theme from Book 10 are used to identify three traumatic themes: the trauma caused by the loss of love or a lover, the trauma caused by the loss of someone or something other than a lover and the trauma caused by forbidden or unnatural love. Episodes which share the same traumatic themes from other books of the Metamorphoses are also selected and discussed. Each episode is discussed by means of Tolkien’s elements of sub-creation, namely recovery, escape and consolation, as focal points. The research concluded that it is possible for the reader to identify with the characters in their experiences of trauma and catharsis by means of participation in the sub-created world. The participation of the reader is made possible by the narrator’s use of defamiliarisation, the use of Tolkien’s aspects of sub-creation and narratological elements. Ancient Languages DLitt Unrestricted 2020-08-04T19:19:02Z 2020-08-04T19:19:02Z 2020-09 2020 Thesis Pieterse, AD 2020, Understanding trauma and catharsis in ovid's metamorphoses 10 : a fantasy reading, DLitt Thesis, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd <http://hdl.handle.net/2263/75556> S2020 http://hdl.handle.net/2263/75556 en © 2019 University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria. application/pdf University of Pretoria |
| spellingShingle | UCTD Latin Humanities theses SDG-03 SDG-03: Good health and well-being Understanding trauma and catharsis in ovid's metamorphoses 10 : a fantasy reading |
| title | Understanding trauma and catharsis in ovid's metamorphoses 10 : a fantasy reading |
| title_full | Understanding trauma and catharsis in ovid's metamorphoses 10 : a fantasy reading |
| title_fullStr | Understanding trauma and catharsis in ovid's metamorphoses 10 : a fantasy reading |
| title_full_unstemmed | Understanding trauma and catharsis in ovid's metamorphoses 10 : a fantasy reading |
| title_short | Understanding trauma and catharsis in ovid's metamorphoses 10 : a fantasy reading |
| title_sort | understanding trauma and catharsis in ovid s metamorphoses 10 a fantasy reading |
| topic | UCTD Latin Humanities theses SDG-03 SDG-03: Good health and well-being |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/75556 |