The Shade of Orpheus : Ambiguity and the Poetics of Vmbra in Metamorphoses 10

Campbell, Celia

doi:10.4000/dictynna.1814

dictynna

2019

DOI: 10.4000/dictynna.1814

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The Shade of Orpheus : Ambiguity and the Poetics of Vmbra in Metamorphoses 10

Celia Campbell¹

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Locus suspectus: The Uncanny Landscape of Invidia's Lair (Ovid,Metamorphoses2.760–764)

Kamil¹

2021

Preternature: Critical and Historical Studies on the Preternatural

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In translating unheimlich, “uncanny,” into Latin, Freud offers a term inseparable from landscape: locus suspectus, “suspicious place.” As this term indicates, certain literary landscapes have the power to unnerve and disorient a reader. Ovid, recognized as a virtuoso of the locus amoenus, is also master of the locus suspectus, constructing uncanny landscapes in the Metamorphoses that provoke the reader's dread and expose our latent existential fears. Taking as a prime example the lair of Invidia at Met. 2.760–764, I demonstrate how Ovid uses intertextual reference and etymological wordplay to endow his setting with dreadful detail that transports the reader to the haunted underworld and to primordial chaos where boundaries collapse. The resulting landscape encapsulates the Freudian concept of the uncanny and so offers a vital counterpart to the locus amoenus in the study of Ovidian landscape.

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Locus suspectus: The Uncanny Landscape of Invidia's Lair (Ovid,Metamorphoses2.760–764)

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2021

Preternature: Critical and Historical Studies on the Preternatural

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The Shade of Orpheus : Ambiguity and the Poetics of Vmbra in Metamorphoses 10

Abstract: Les contenus des la revue Dictynna sont mis à disposition selon les termes de la Licence Creative Commons Attribution -Pas d'Utilisation Commerciale -Pas de Modification 4.0 International.

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Locus suspectus: The Uncanny Landscape of Invidia's Lair (Ovid,Metamorphoses2.760–764)

Locus suspectus: The Uncanny Landscape of Invidia's Lair (Ovid,Metamorphoses2.760–764)

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