Ovid And The Moderns

Author : Theodore Ziolkowski
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0801442745

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Ovid and the Moderns by Theodore Ziolkowski Pdf

"The reasons for the conspicuous popularity of Ovid--his life as well as his works--at the turn of the new millennium bear investigation.... This book speaks of the new bodies assumed in the twentieth century by the poems and tales to which Ovid gave their classic form--including prominently the account of his own life, which has been hailed by many writers of our time as the archetype of exile.... I intend to suggest some of the reasons for Ovid's appeal to different writers and different generations."--from the PrefaceTheodore Ziolkowski approaches Ovid's Latin poetry as a comparatist, not as a classicist, and maintains that the contextualization of individual works helps place them in a larger tradition. Covering the period 1912-2002, Ovid and the Moderns deals with the reception of Ovid and of Ovid's works in literature. After beginning with a discussion of Giorgio de Chirico's Ariadne paintings of 1912 and the Hofmannsthal-Strauss opera Ariadne auf Naxos, Ziolkowski considers European literary landmarks from the High Modernism of Joyce, Kafka, Mandelstam, and Pound, by way of the mid-century exiles, to postmodernism and the century's end, when a surge of interest in Ovid was fueled by a new generation of translations. One of Ziolkowski's conclusions is that the popularity of Ovid alternates in a regular rhythm and for definable reasons with that of Virgil.

Author : Paul Barolsky
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : ART
ISBN : 0300196695

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Ovid and the Metamorphoses of Modern Art from Botticelli to Picasso by Paul Barolsky Pdf

Written in the spirit of Ovid (43 B.C–A.D. 17/18), this lively and erudite book traces the art derived from Ovid’s Metamorphoses from the Renaissance up to the present day. The Metamorphoses has been more widely illustrated than any other book except the Bib≤ for centuries, great artists have drawn, painted, and sculpted its stories, the artists often responding not only to Ovid’s work but to one another’s in their depictions. Paul Barolsky, a specialist in Italian Renaissance art and literature, explores Ovid’s unparalleled influence on the visual arts, discussing works by many of the most famous artists of the past six centuries. Broadly interdisciplinary, the new understanding of the themes of the Metamorphoses revealed here will appeal to those in the fields of Renaissance art, humanism, literature, history, and classics, among others. At once witty, entertaining, and profound, Ovid and the Metamorphoses of Modern Art from Botticelli to Picasso is a meditation on what words can achieve that images cannot, and conversely what images can show that words cannot tell.

Author : Alison Keith,Stephen James Rupp
Publisher : Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0772720355

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Metamorphosis by Alison Keith,Stephen James Rupp Pdf

Author : Liz Oakley-Brown
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2017-03-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351913034

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Ovid and the Cultural Politics of Translation in Early Modern England by Liz Oakley-Brown Pdf

In Ovid and the Cultural Politics of Early Modern England, Liz Oakley-Brown considers English versions of the Metamorphoses - a poem concerned with translation and transformation on a multiplicity of levels - as important sites of social and historical difference from the fifteenth to the early eighteenth centuries. Through the exploration of a range of canonical and marginal texts, from Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus to women's embroideries of Ovidian myths, Oakley-Brown argues that translation is central to the construction of national and gendered identities.

Author : Lisa Starks
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2019-08-28
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781474430081

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Ovid and Adaptation in Early Modern English Theatre by Lisa Starks Pdf

Uses adaptation and appropriation studies to explore early modern textual and theatrical metamorphoses of OvidApplies contemporary theoretical approaches, such as gender/queer/trans studies, feminist ecostudies, hauntology, rhizomatic adaptation, transmedialityUses adaptation studies in analyzing early modern transformations of OvidFocuses on the appropriations of "e;Ovid"e; (as an umbrella term for "e;all things Ovidian"e;) on the early modern English stageIncludes chapters on Shakespeare and Marlowe as well as other early modern dramatistsDid you know that Ovid was a multifaceted icon of lovesickness, endless change, libertinism, emotional torment and violence in early modern England? This is the first collection to use adaptation studies in connection with other contemporary theoretical approaches in analysing early modern transformations of Ovid. It provides innovative perspectives on the 'Ovids' that haunted the early modern stage, while exploring intersections between adaptation theory and gender/queer/trans studies, ecofeminism, hauntology, transmediality, rhizomatics and more. This book examines the multidimensional, ubiquitous role that Ovid and Ovidian adaptations played in English Renaissance drama and theatrical performance.

Author : John Tholen
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2021-08-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004462397

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Producing Ovid’s 'Metamorphoses' in the Early Modern Low Countries by John Tholen Pdf

This book offers an analysis of paratextual infrastructures in editions of Ovid’s Metamorphoses and shows how paratexts functioned as important instruments for publishers and commentators to influence readers of this ancient text.

Author : Helena Taylor
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2017-04-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780192516886

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The Lives of Ovid in Seventeenth-Century French Culture by Helena Taylor Pdf

Seventeenth-century France saw one of the most significant 'culture wars' Europe has ever known. Culminating in the Quarrel of the Ancients and Moderns, this was a confrontational, transitional time for the reception of the classics. Helena Taylor explores responses to the life of the ancient Roman poet, Ovid, within this charged atmosphere. To date, criticism has focused on the reception of Ovid's enormously influential work in this period, but little attention has been paid to Ovid's lives and their uses. Through close analysis of a diverse corpus, which includes prefatory Lives, novels, plays, biographical dictionaries, poetry, and memoirs, this study investigates how the figure of Ovid was used to debate literary taste and modernity and to reflect on translation practice. It shows how the narrative of Ovid's life was deployed to explore the politics and poetics of exile writing; and to question the relationship between fiction and history. In so doing, this book identifies two paradoxes: although an ancient poet, Ovid became key to the formulation of aspects of self-consciously 'modern' cultural movements; and while Ovid's work might have adorned the royal palaces of Versailles, the poetry he wrote after being exiled by the Emperor Augustus made him a figure through which to question the relationship between authority and narrative. The Lives of Ovid in Seventeenth-Century French Culture not only nuances understanding of both Ovid and life-writing in this period, but also offers a fresh perspective on classical reception: its paradoxes, uses, and quarrels.

Author : Ovid
Publisher : Modern Library
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2013-02-20
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780307801838

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The Art of Love by Ovid Pdf

In the first century a.d., Ovid, author of the groundbreaking epic poem Metamorphoses, came under severe criticism for The Art of Love, which playfully instructed women in the art of seduction and men in the skills essential for mastering the art of romantic conquest. In this remarkable translation, James Michie breathes new life into the notorious Roman’s mock-didactic elegy. In lyrical, irreverent English, he reveals love’s timeless dilemmas and Ovid’s enduring brilliance as both poet and cultural critic.

Author : John Tholen
Publisher : Library of the Written Word
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : History
ISBN : 9004462384

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Producing Ovid's 'Metamorphoses' in the Early Modern Low Countries by John Tholen Pdf

Introduction: Early Modern Paratexts to Ovid's Metamorphoses -- The Title Page: Creating Commercial Credibility -- The Front Matter: Responses to Criticism of Ovid -- The Commentary: Negotiating Ovid's Dangerous Side -- The Index: A Filtering and Framing Device -- Paratextual Interaction: Two Case Studies -- Conclusion -- Appendix 1: Bibliography of Editions of Ovid's Metamorphoses Printed in the Low Countries (1479-1700) --Appendix 2: List of Library Abbreviations.

Author : Philip R. Hardie
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2002-02-07
Category : History
ISBN : 0521800870

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Ovid's Poetics of Illusion by Philip R. Hardie Pdf

Ovid's poetry is haunted obsessively by a sense both of the living fullness of the texts and of the emptiness of these 'insubstantial pageants'. This major study touches on the whole of Ovid's output, from the Amores to the exile poetry, and is an overarching treatment of illusionism and the textual conjuring of presence in the corpus. Modern critical and theoretical approaches, accompanied by close readings of individual passages, examine the topic from the points of view of poetics and rhetoric, aesthetics, the psychology of desire, philosophy, religion and politics. There are also case studies of the reception of Ovid's poetics of illusion in Renaissance and modern literature and art. The book will interest students and scholars of Latin and later European literatures. All foreign languages are accompanied by translations.

Author : Charles Martindale
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1990-07-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521397456

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Ovid Renewed by Charles Martindale Pdf

This book is a study of Ovid and his poetry as a cultural phenomenon, conceived in the belief that such a study of tradition also casts fresh light on Ovid himself. Its main concern is with exploring the influence of Ovid on literature, especially English literature, but it also takes a wider perspective, including, for example, the visual arts. The book takes the form of a series of studies by specialists in their fields, including a number of scholars of international renown. The essays cover the period from the twelfth century, when there was an upsurge of interest in Ovid, through to the decline in his fortunes in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. They are critical and comparative in approach and collectively give a detailed sense of Ovid's importance in Western culture. Topics covered include Ovid's influence on Chaucer, Spenser, Shakespeare and his contemporaries, Dryden, T. S. Eliot, the myths of Daedalus and Icarus and Pygmalion, and the influence of Ovid's poetry on art.

Author : John S. Garrison,Goran Stanivukovic
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2021-01-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780228004547

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Ovid and Masculinity in English Renaissance Literature by John S. Garrison,Goran Stanivukovic Pdf

Ovid transformed English Renaissance literary ideas about love, erotic desire, embodiment, and gender more than any other classical poet. Ovidian concepts of femininity have been well served by modern criticism, but Ovid's impact on masculinity in Renaissance literature remains underexamined. This volume explores how English Renaissance writers shifted away from Virgilian heroic figures to embrace romantic ideals of courtship, civility, and friendship. Ovid's writing about masculinity, love, and desire shaped discourses of masculinity across a wide range of literary texts of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, including poetry, prose fiction, and drama. The book covers all major works by Ovid, in addition to Italian humanists Angelo Poliziano and Natale Conti, canonical writers such as William Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe, Ben Jonson, Edmund Spenser, Philip Sidney, and John Milton, and lesser-known writers such as Wynkyn de Worde, Michael Drayton, Thomas Lodge, Richard Johnson, Robert Greene, John Marston, Thomas Heywood, and Francis Beaumont. Individual essays examine emasculation, abjection, pacifism, female masculinity, boys' masculinity, parody, hospitality, and protean Jewish masculinity. Ovid and Masculinity in English Renaissance Literature demonstrates how Ovid's poetry gave vigour and vitality to male voices in English literature - how his works inspired English writers to reimagine the male authorial voice, the male body, desire, and love in fresh terms.

Author : Barbara Pavlock
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2009-05-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780299231439

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The Image of the Poet in Ovid’s Metamorphoses by Barbara Pavlock Pdf

Barbara Pavlock unmasks major figures in Ovid’s Metamorphoses as surrogates for his narrative persona, highlighting the conflicted revisionist nature of the Metamorphoses. Although Ovid ostensibly validates traditional customs and institutions, instability is in fact a defining feature of both the core epic values and his own poetics. The Image of the Poet explores issues central to Ovid’s poetics—the status of the image, the generation of plots, repetition, opposition between refined and inflated epic style, the reliability of the narrative voice, and the interrelation of rhetoric and poetry. The work explores the constructed author and complements recent criticism focusing on the reader in the text. 2009 Outstanding Academic Title, Choice Magazine

Author : Starks Lisa Starks
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2019-08-28
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781474430098

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Ovid and Adaptation in Early Modern English Theatre by Starks Lisa Starks Pdf

Uses adaptation and appropriation studies to explore early modern textual and theatrical metamorphoses of OvidApplies contemporary theoretical approaches, such as gender/queer/trans studies, feminist ecostudies, hauntology, rhizomatic adaptation, transmedialityUses adaptation studies in analyzing early modern transformations of OvidFocuses on the appropriations of "e;Ovid"e; (as an umbrella term for "e;all things Ovidian"e;) on the early modern English stageIncludes chapters on Shakespeare and Marlowe as well as other early modern dramatistsDid you know that Ovid was a multifaceted icon of lovesickness, endless change, libertinism, emotional torment and violence in early modern England? This is the first collection to use adaptation studies in connection with other contemporary theoretical approaches in analysing early modern transformations of Ovid. It provides innovative perspectives on the 'Ovids' that haunted the early modern stage, while exploring intersections between adaptation theory and gender/queer/trans studies, ecofeminism, hauntology, transmediality, rhizomatics and more. This book examines the multidimensional, ubiquitous role that Ovid and Ovidian adaptations played in English Renaissance drama and theatrical performance.

Author : Philip Hardie
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 627 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2002-05-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107494404

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The Cambridge Companion to Ovid by Philip Hardie Pdf

Ovid was one of the greatest writers of classical antiquity, and arguably the single most influential ancient poet for post-classical literature and culture. In this Cambridge Companion, chapters by leading authorities from Europe and North America discuss the backgrounds and contexts for Ovid, the individual works, and his influence on later literature and art. Coverage of essential information is combined with exciting critical approaches. This Companion is designed both as an accessible handbook for the general reader who wishes to learn about Ovid, and as a series of stimulating essays for students of Latin poetry and of the classical tradition.