AFTER OVID PB: New Metamorphoses - Softcover

Hofmann, Michael

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0374524785 ISBN 13: 9780374524784

Verlag: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1996

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"[This anthology aims] to play fast and loose with Ovid's text and themes just as he played fast and loose with the old myths. After Ovid is racy, memorable, and vividly contemporary. The themes are most certainly ours: sex-change, multiple rape, cross-dressing, the random cruelties of war. The poets re-imagine, reflect on, and generally reinterpret the originals--something of which Ovid himself would surely have approved. Reading Ovid in these versions, and even in the original, is a bit like a good evening at the cinema: rapid scene changes; sudden close-ups; unexpected shifts of attention." --The Economist

"The old magic has worked anew and several major figures have obviously found themselves hooked. . . . The contributors' list is a roll-call of remarkable distinction. . . . The effect is to bring Ovid from a dead to a living language." --The New Statesman & Society

Reseña del editor:

Major contemporary poets--including Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney, Ted Hughes, Amy Clampitt, Charles Simic, and others--contribute their own idiomatic renditions of the great myths of Ovid's ancient Roman classic Metamorphoses. Reprint.

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• Verlag: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0374524785
• ISBN 13: 9780374524784
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 316