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Indlæser... Ovid's Presence in Contemporary Women's Writing: Strange Monsters (Classical Presences)af Fiona Cox
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Fiona Cox takes her subtitle from May Sarton’s evocation of “writing women and strange monsters” (4), and in her new book she charts the many ways in which contemporary women writers articulate strangeness and estrangement through reference to the works of Ovid, primarily the Metamorphoses. Such notions of strangeness are grounded both in the self and in culture; Cox insists throughout on the cultural and political resonances of the representations she tracks, and locates them firmly within the agendas of third-wave feminism. That is, she identifies her authors as moving beyond the recuperation of women’s voices to speak about social and cultural inequalities and injustices. Her “strange monsters” are not strange because they are women writers, but because they adopt a gendered position from which to speak—through fiction, poetry, theatre, and memoir—about social and political issues. Cox traces the reworking of Ovidian themes in representations of ecological concerns, the plight of refugees and immigrants, bodily transformations in illness and in war, the terror of social and financial precarity, and the exploration of sexualities. Tilhører Forlagsserien
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, Marina Warner, and Marie Darrieussecq, to Alice Oswald, Saviana Stanescu, and Yoko Tawada. Using Ovid in theirengagements with a wide range of issues besetting our twenty-first century world - homelessness, refugees, the financial crisis, internet porn, anorexia, body image - these writers echo the poet's preoccupation in his own work with fleeting fame, shape-shifting, and the dangers of immediategratification, and make evident that these concerns are not only quintessentially modern, but also peculiarly Ovidian. Moving beyond the concern of second-wave feminism with recovering silenced female voices and establishing a female perspective within canonical works, the volume places particularemphasis 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 re-shapings, re-imaginings, and receptions of Ovid, it not only demonstrates the extraordinary plasticity of his writing, but also of its myriad re-castings and re-contextualizations within contemporary culture (in terms of genre alone, theworks 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 remainsour contemporary and an enduring source of inspiration. No library descriptions found. |
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