Ovid's Presence in Contemporary Women's Writing
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In a series of case studies of prominent female authors - from Ali Smith and Marina Warner to Alice Oswald and Yoko Tawada - this volume examines the figure of Ovid who emerges from the hands of contemporary women writers and explores the intersections...
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In a series of case studies of prominent female authors - from Ali Smith and Marina Warner to Alice Oswald and Yoko Tawada - this volume examines the figure of Ovid who emerges from the hands of contemporary women writers and explores the intersections between his imaginative universe and the political and aesthetic agenda of third-wave feminism.
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This innovative study analyses the presence of Ovid in contemporary women's writing through a series of insightful case studies of prominent female authors, from Ali Smith, Marina Warner, and Marie Darrieussecq, to Alice Oswald, Saviana Stãnescu, and Yoko Tawada. Using Ovid in their engagements with a wide range of issues besetting our twenty-first century world - homelessness, refugees, the financial crisis, internet porn, anorexia, body image - these writers echo the poet's preoccupation in his own work with fleeting fame, shape-shifting, and the dangers of immediate gratification, and make evident that these concerns are not only quintessentially modern, but also peculiarly Ovidian. Moving beyond the concern of second-wave feminism with recovering silenced female voices and establishing a female perspective within canonical works, the volume places particular emphasis on the intersections between Ovid's imaginative universe and the political and aesthetic agenda of third-wave feminism. Focusing on its subjects' socially and politically charged re-shapings, re-imaginings, and receptions of Ovid, it not only demonstrates the extraordinary plasticity of his writing, but also of its myriad re-castings and re-contextualizations within contemporary culture (in terms of genre alone, the works discussed included translations, poetry, plays, novels, short stories, and memoirs). In so doing, it not only offers us a valuable perspective on the work of the selected female authors and a new and vital landmark in the history of Ovidian reception, but also reveals to us an Ovid who remains our contemporary and an enduring source of inspiration.
Inhaltsverzeichnis zu „Ovid's Presence in Contemporary Women's Writing “
- Introduction
- 1: Ali Smith
- 2: Marina Warner
- 3: Yoko Tawada
- 4: Alice Oswald
- 5: Mary Zimmerman
- 6: Saviana Stãnescu
- 7: Jo Shapcott
- 8: Marie Darrieussecq
- 9: Josephine Balmer and Averill Curdy
- 10: Michèle Roberts and Clare Pollard
- 11: Jane Alison
- Conclusion
- Endmatter
- Bibliography
- Index
Autoren-Porträt von Fiona Cox
Fiona Cox is Senior Lecturer in French at the University of Exeter, and has previously worked at the National University of Ireland, Cork and Université Michel de Montaigne Bordeaux III. She is the author of Aeneas Takes the Metro: The Presence of Virgil in Twentieth-Century French Literature (Routledge, 1999) and Sibylline Sisters: Virgil's Presence in Contemporary Women's Writing (OUP, 2011). She has also published widely in the area of nineteenth-century French literature, particularly on Victor Hugo, and is currently editing a volume entitled Homer's Daughters: Homer's Presence in Women's Writing, 1914-2014 with Elena Theodorakopoulos (forthcoming with OUP).Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Fiona Cox
- 2018, 272 Seiten, Maße: 14,7 x 22,1 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- ISBN-10: 0198779887
- ISBN-13: 9780198779889
- Erscheinungsdatum: 16.08.2018
Sprache:
Englisch
Pressezitat
this volume by Cox is a welcome exploration of these themes: transformation (in its many contexts) and women's depictions of these forces of change. For scholars of Classical Studies who work on Classical reception, or who wish to find new directions of interpretation useful for Ovidian studies or ancient literary studies in general, this volume has much to offer, and I recommend it. Teresa Ramsby, CJ-Online
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