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The Metamorphosis of Ovid

Autor Sarah Annes Brown
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 13 noi 2002
Ovid's Metamorphoses is one of the cornerstones of Western culture, the principal source for all the most famous myths of Greece and Rome, and a continuing inspiration for poets, composers and painters alike. This, inclusive account of this hugely important poem's influence on English literature, charts the reception of the poem over the course of six centuries from Chaucer's enigmatic House of Fame to Ted Hughes' Tales from Ovid. As well as offering reassessments of works whose debt to Ovid has long been recognised, such as The Tempest and Paradise Lost, Sarah Brown shows that Ovidianism is an even more complex and pervasive phenomenon in English literature than has previously been recognised, and may be found in the most unexpected places.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780715631775
ISBN-10: 0715631772
Pagini: 256
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Ediția:Nouă
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bristol Classical Press
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Caracteristici

This charts the reception of the poem, one of the cornerstones of Western culture, over the course of six centuries from Chaucer's House of Fame to Ted Hughes' Tales from Ovid

Notă biografică

Sarah Annes Brown is Professor of English Literature and Director of Research Students, Anglia Ruskin University, UK. Her publications include Ovid: Myth and Metamorphosis (2005), and as co-editor Lucan's Pharsalia (1997), and Tragedy in Transition (2007).

Cuprins

Acknowledgements 1. Ovid and Ovidianism: influence, reception, transformation 2. Rumour, authority and the literary text: Chaucer's House of Fame 3. The equivocal morality of artifice: Spenser's Faerie Queene 4. The metamorphosis of narrative: A Midsummer Night's Dream and The Tempest5. Untroubled Ovidianism: Andrew Marvell's Ovidian wit 6. The anxious Ovidian: Milton's metamorphosis of Ovid 7. Ovid translated: Sir Samuel Garth's Metamorphoses 8. Absent presence: Keats' 'Ode on a Grecian Urn' 9. Embedded Ovidianism: Beddoes' 'Pygmalion' and Browning's The Ring and the Book 10. Scriptae puellae: Pygmalion in Eliot, Joyce and H.D. 11. Intersexuality: Virginia Woolf's Orlando 12. Carmen perpetuum: Ovid today Bibliography Index of characters and episodes from the Metamorphoses General index

Recenzii

Brown tells of a body that time has changed into a new form: Ovid might have agreed with Vergil, Horace, and Catullus the Britannia lay on the edge of the world, but its writers have reclaimed the exile to Tomis as a perpetual and central presence in English literature. On the whole, Brown chronicles this long process with magisterial perspicacity.
Brown displays a masterful understanding of the Ovidian canon and the importance of Ovid's influence on some of the West's most cherished literature. In addition, [her] work makes [the] important contribution of effacing the boundary between the disciplines of Classics and English and Comparative Literature. I thoroughly recommend The Metamorphosis of Ovid.

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Ovid's "Metamorphoses" is one of the cornerstones of Western culture and the principal source for all the most famous myths of Greece and Rome. This text gives an account of the poem's influence on English literature and charts the reception of the poem over six centuries.