Re-inventing Ovid’s Metamorphoses

Re-inventing Ovid’s Metamorphoses

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  • Author: Karl A.E. Enenkel
  • Publisher: BRILL
  • ISBN: 9004437894
  • Category : Literary Collections
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 503

This volume explores early modern recreations of Ovid’s Metamorphoses, focusing on the creative ingenium of artists and writers who freely handled the original text so as to adapt it to different artistic media and genres.


On Ovid's Metamorphoses

On Ovid's Metamorphoses

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  • Author: Gareth Williams
  • Publisher: Columbia University Press
  • ISBN: 0231553757
  • Category : Literary Criticism
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 130

Ovid’s Metamorphoses has entranced audiences for two thousand years, from Rome under Augustus to humanities classrooms today. Borrowing liberally from Greek and Roman mythology, the poem tells hundreds of stories that share one essential theme: each tale depicts a transformation from one physical form into another. Drawing on many years of teaching the Metamorphoses, Gareth Williams offers a brisk and lively reading of the poem that emphasizes why it speaks in compelling ways to a twenty-first-century audience. He shows how the Metamorphoses is not just a colorful collection of stories about change but an exploration of change itself. Ovid challenges us to recognize flux as fundamental to human experience: circumstances shift, fortunes ebb and flow, and our very identities ceaselessly evolve across from one life stage to another. Capturing the energy and excitement that Ovid’s poem generates among readers, Williams also sheds new light on its modern provocations. His fresh interpretations of the Metamorphoses reveal its power to enrich and inform our daily existence amid the uncertainties of life today.


Reinventing Eden

Reinventing Eden

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  • Author: Carolyn Merchant
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • ISBN: 0415644259
  • Category : Nature
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 306

Visionary quests to return to the Garden of Eden have shaped Western culture from Columbus' voyages to today's tropical island retreats. Few narratives are so powerful - and, as Carolyn Merchant shows, so misguided and destructive - as the dream of recapturing a lost paradise. A sweeping account of these quixotic endeavors by one of America's leading environmentalists, Reinventing Eden traces the idea of rebuilding the primeval garden from its origins to its latest incarnations in shopping malls, theme parks and gated communities. With eloquence and insight, Merchant shows how the drive to conquer nature and to explore and settle the globe, springs from this utopian pastoral impulse throughout Western history. Time and again, human manipulation of the environment is our downfall: Eden is achieved by fencing off pristine beauty in national parks and wildlife preserves, while leaving the majority of the earth in ruins. Challenging both narratives, Merchant argues that the green veneer of city-park conservation has become a cover for the corruption of the earth and the neglect of its environment. Reinventing Eden is a bold new way to think about the earth that includes green political parties, sustainable development and a partnership between humans and earth that is nothing short of an ecological revolution.


Ovid in French

Ovid in French

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  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
  • ISBN: 0192895389
  • Category : History
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 324

This collection of essays examines the ways Ovid's diverse oeuvre has been translated, rewritten, adapted, and responded to by a range of French and Francophone women from the Renaissance to the present. It aims to reveal lesser-known voices in Ovidian reception studies, and to offer a wider historical perspective on the complex question of Ovid and gender. Ranging from Renaissance poetry to contemporary creative-criticism, it charts an understudied strand of reception studies, emphasizing how a longer view allows us to explore and challenge the notion of a female tradition of Ovidian reception. The range of genres analysed here--poetry, verse and prose translation, theatre, epistolary fiction, autofiction, autobiography, film, creative critique, and novels--also reflect the diversity of the Ovidian texts in reception from the Heroides to the Metamorphoses, from the Amores to the Ars Amatoria, from the Tristia to the Fasti. The study brings an array of critical approaches to bear on well-known authors such as George Sand, Julia Kristeva, and Marguerite Yourcenar, as well as less-known figures, from contemporary writer Linda Lê to the early modern Catherine and Madeline Des Roches, exploring exile, identity, queerness, displacement, voice, expectations of modesty, the poetics of translation, and the problems posed by Ovid's erotized violence, to name just some of the volume's rich themes. The epilogue by translator and novelist Marie Cosnay points towards new eco-critical and creative directions in Ovidian scholarship and reception. Students and scholars of French Studies, Classics, Comparative Literature and Translation Studies will find much to interest them in this diverse collection of essays.


Horace across the Media

Horace across the Media

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  • Author: Karl A.E. Enenkel
  • Publisher: BRILL
  • ISBN: 900437373X
  • Category : History
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 763

This volume explores various perceptions, adaptations, and appropriations of Horace in the Early Modern age across textual, visual and musical media. It thus intends to advocate an interdisciplinary and multi-medial approach to the exceptionally rich and variegated afterlife of Horace.


A Companion to Ovid

A Companion to Ovid

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  • Author: Peter E. Knox
  • Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
  • ISBN: 1118556666
  • Category : Literary Criticism
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 552

A Companion to Ovid is a comprehensive overview of one ofthe most influential poets of classical antiquity. Features more than 30 newly commissioned chapters by notedscholars writing in their areas of specialization Illuminates various aspects of Ovid's work, such as production,genre, and style Presents interpretive essays on key poems and collections ofpoems Includes detailed discussions of Ovid's primary literaryinfluences and his reception in English literature Provides a chronology of key literary and historical eventsduring Ovid's lifetime


Milton and the Metamorphosis of Ovid

Milton and the Metamorphosis of Ovid

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  • Author: Maggie Kilgour
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
  • ISBN: 0199589437
  • Category : History
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 398

Contributing to our understanding of Ovid, Milton, and more broadly the transmission and transformation of classical traditions, this book examines the ways in which Milton drew on Ovid's oeuvre, and argues that Ovid's revision of the past gave Renaissance writers a model for their own transformation of classical works.


Ambiguity and Religion in Ovid's Fasti

Ambiguity and Religion in Ovid's Fasti

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  • Author: Darja Šterbenc Erker
  • Publisher: BRILL
  • ISBN: 9004527044
  • Category : Literary Criticism
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 315

Ovid's Fasti comments on Augustan religion by means of ambivalent aetiologies, elegiac jokes and subtle allusions to the religious self-fashioning of the imperial family. Darja Sterbenc Erker carefully reconstructs Ovid's subtle unmasking of religious fundaments of Augustus' principate.


Reinventing the Renaissance

Reinventing the Renaissance

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  • Author: S. Brown
  • Publisher: Springer
  • ISBN: 1137319402
  • Category : Literary Criticism
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 325

The plays of Shakespeare and his contemporaries has inspired interpretations in every genre and medium. This book offers perspectives on the ways in which practitioners have used Renaissance drama to address contemporary concerns and reach new audiences. It provides a resource for those interested in the creative reception of Renaissance drama.


Reinventing Allegory

Reinventing Allegory

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  • Author: Theresa M. Kelley
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • ISBN: 9780521432078
  • Category : Literary Criticism
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 372

First published in 1997, Reinventing Allegory asks how and why allegory has survived as a literary mode from the late Renaissance to the postmodern present. Three chapters on Romanticism, including one on the painter J. M. W. Turner, present this era as the pivotal moment in allegory's modern survival. Other chapters describe larger historical and philosophical contexts, including classical rhetoric and Spenser, Milton and seventeenth-century rhetoric, Neoclassical distrust of allegory, and recent theory and metafiction. By using a series of key historical moments to define the special character of modern allegory, this study offers an important framework for assessing allegory's role in contemporary literary culture.