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  title info:
    title: Ovid's presence in contemporary women's writing
    sub title: strange monsters
  name:
    name part: Cox, Fiona
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2018
    edition: First edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: ix, 251 pages ; 22 cm.
  abstract: 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 and Marina Warner, to Alice Oswald and Yoko Tawada. Using Ovid in their engagements with a wide range of issues besetting our twenty-first century world, 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. 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 reshapings, reimaginings and receptions of Ovid, it not only demonstrates the extraordinary plasticity of his writing, but also of its myriad recastings and recontextualizations 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.
  note: Fiona Cox.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages [239]-247) and index.
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Ovid
      name part: 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D
    topic: Influence
  subject:
    topic: English literature
    topic: Women authors
    topic: History and criticism
  subject:
    topic: Feminism in literature
  subject:
    topic: Women and literature
  classification: PN471 .C69 2018
  classification: 820.9/9287
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Classical presences
  identifier: 0198779887
  identifier: 9780198779889
  record info:
    record content source: YDX
    record creation date: 171227
    record change date: 20181029073403.0
    record identifier: in00004034508