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The Colors of Exile
The Colors of Exile

Author(s): Florica Bechet
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Ovidius University Press
Keywords: color; exile; Rome; Scythia; antithesis; darkness.

Summary/Abstract: This study deals with the inventory and the analysis of the color terms in Ovid’s exile poems, with the aim to determine their function and their symbolical meanings. I found two categories of color terms: one which represents Rome and another one which represents the exile. From a linguistic point of view as well as from a poetic one, there is a great difference between these two categories that our study tries to discuss.

  • Issue Year: XXI/2010
  • Issue No: 21
  • Page Range: 9-21
  • Page Count: 13
  • Language: English