The metamorphosis of Ovid : from Chaucer to Ted Hughes / Sarah Annes Brown.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brown, Sarah Annes.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English literature--History and criticism.

English literature.

Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D. Metamorphoses.

Ovid.

Mythology, Classical, in literature.

English literature--Roman influences.

Metamorphosis in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 246 pages)

Place of Publication:

London : Duckworth, 2002.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

"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."--Bloombury Publishing.

Contents:

1. Ovid and Ovidianism: influence, reception, transformation 1

2. Rumour, authority and the literary text: Chaucer's House of Fame 23

3. The equivocal morality of artifice: Spenser's Faerie Queene 39

4. The metamorphosis of narrative: A Midsummer Night's Dream and The Tempest 57

5. Untroubled Ovidianism: Andrew Marvell's Ovidian wit 85

6. The anxious Ovidian: Milton's metamorphosis of Ovid 101

7. Ovid translated: Sir Samuel Garth's Metamorphoses 123

8. Absent presence: Keats' 'Ode on a Grecian Urn' 141

9. Embedded Ovidianism: Beddoes' 'Pygmalion' and Browning's The Ring and the Book 155

10. Scriptae puellae: Pygmalion in Eliot, Joyce and H.D. 181

11. Intersexuality: Virginia Woolf's Orlando 201

12. Carmen perpetuum: Ovid today 217.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781472540324

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.