A handbook to the reception of Ovid / edited by John F. Miller and Carole E. Newlands.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Miller, John F., 1950-

Newlands, Carole Elizabeth.

Series:

HCRZ - Wiley Blackwell Handbooks to Classical Reception

Wiley Blackwell Handbooks to Classical Reception

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D--Criticism and interpretation.

Ovid.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (527 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chichester, West Sussex, [England] : John Wiley & Sons, 2014.

Summary:

A Handbook to the Reception of Ovid presents more than 30 original essays written by leading scholars revealing the rich diversity of critical engagement with Ovid's poetry that spans the Western tradition from antiquity to the present day. Offers innovative perspectives on Ovid's poetry and its reception from antiquity to the present dayFeatures contributions from more than 30 leading scholars in the Humanities.Introduces familiar and unfamiliar figures in the history of Ovidian reception.Demonstrates the enduring and transformative power of Ovid's poetry into modern times.

Contents:

Ovid's self-reception in his exile poetry / K. Sara Myers

Modeling reception in Ovid's Metamorphoses: Ovid's epic Cyclops / Andrew Feldherr

Ovidian myths on Pompeiian walls / Peter E. Knox

Ovid in Flavian occasional poetry (Martial and Statius) / Gianpiero Rosati

Poetae ovidiani: Ovid's Metamorphoses in imperial Roman epic / Alison Keith

Ovid in Apuleius' Metamorphoses / S.J. Harrison

A poet between two worlds: Ovid in late antiquity / Lan Fielding

Commentary and collaboration in the medieval allegorical tradition / Jamie C. Fumo

The mythographic tradition after Ovid / Gregory Hays

Ovid's exile and medieval Italian literature: the lyric tradition / Catherine Keen

Venus's clerk: Ovid's amatory poetry in the Middle Ages / Marilynn Desmond

The metamorphosis of Ovid in Dante's Divine comedy / Diskin Clay

Ovid in Chaucer and Gower / Andrew Galloway

Ovid's Metamorphoses and the history of baroque art / Paul Barolsky

The poetics of time: the Fasti in the Renaissance / Maggie Kilgour

Shakespeare and Ovid / Sean Keilen

Ben Jonson's light reading / Heather James

Love poems in sequence: the Amores from Petrarch to Goethe / Gordon Braden

Don Quixote as Ovidian text / Frederick A. De Armas

Spenser and Ovid / Philip Hardie

Ovidian intertextuality in Ariosto's Orlando Furioso / Sergio Casali

"Joy and harmles pastime": Milton and the Ovidian arts of leisure / Mandy Green

Ovid translated: early modern versions of the Metamorphoses / Dan Hooley

Ovid in restoration and eighteenth-century England / James M. Horowitz

The influence of Ovid in opera / Jon Solomon

Ovid in Germany / Theodore Ziolkowski

Ovid and Russia's poets of exile / Andrew Kahn

Alter Ovid: contemporary art on the hyphen / Jill H. Casid

Contemporary poetry: after after Ovid / Sarah Annes Brown

Ovid's "biography": novels of Ovid's exile / Rainer Godel

Ovid and the cinema: an introduction / Martin M. Winkler.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781118876183

1118876180

9781118876176

1118876172

9781118876169

1118876164

9781118876121

1118876121

OCLC:

892243821