Ovid's »Metamorphoses« in English Poetry

Edited by Sabine Coelsch-Foisner and Wolfgang Görtschacher. Assistent Editors Andrea Oberndorfer and Elisabeth Skokan.

17 papers deal with the metamorphoses of Ovid's »Metamorphoses« in English poetry, from the Middle Ages to the late twentieth century. Its focus is on the dynamics of literature, more specifically on questions of the repetition and alteration of particular myths, on their continuity and discontinuity in changing cultural and social climates, on how recognition works both intertextually, as in the case of Lavinia in Shakespeare's »Titus Andronicus«, and extratextually, as in the case of Niobe becoming a role model for women who have stood up against oppression. For this purpose, creative reception is held to include the wide spectrum from translation to allusion, or from re-telling to cover reference, and involves generic questions as well as issues of narration and subjectivity, storyline, characters and motifs, names and topographies. With its meanderings, parallel currents and turns, its blanks, ruptures and paradoxes, the history of Ovid's reception in English poetry is itself emblematic of the epic's inherent dynamics. - Contents: Sabine Coelsch-Foisner: Metamorphoses of Ovid's "Metamorphoses" in English Poetry. - Nora Liassis: "against mighty nature's laws ...". The Reception of Myrrha's Tale in "Metamorphoses". - Per Serritslev Petersen: Receptions of Ovid's Salmacis-and-Hermaphroditus Metamorphosis from Arthur Golding to Ted Hughes. - Ann Higgins: Love in the Middle English "Sir Orfeo". Ovid's Orpheus Transformed. - Michael Foster: The Absent Birds and the Squawking Rabble. Chaucer's Rhetoric of Omission and Consolation in the "Book of the Duchess". - William Rossiter: "I know where is an hynde". Sir Thomas Wyatt and the Transformation of Actaeon. - Armelle Sabatier: Ovid's Pygmalion and the English Renaissance Poets. - Glyn Pursglove: "As Shafalus to Proems, I to you". An Ovidian Married Couple amongst the Elizabethan and Victorian Poets. - Andrew Hui: Voice, Writing, and the Ovidian Play of Signs in "Titus Andronicus". - Laura Boercker: George Sandys's 1632 Ovid Translation and the Renaissance Reader. - Gary A. Schmidt: A Double Stranger. Sandys, Ovid, and the New World. - Sonja Fielitz: 'Rediscovering' Ovid in the Eighteenth Century. James Thomson's "The Seasons". - Alison Winch: "Iphis her wish (however wild) obtain'd". Lady Mary Wortley Montagu and Sexual Metamorphoses. - Éva Antal: "... Labour of Love". Transformation of the Ovidian Flower-Figures in William Blake's "Songs". - Anne Tomiche: Philomela in American Modernist Poetry (T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound and John Crowe Ransom). - Maryvonne Boisseau: Mahon and Ovid. Subtext and Hidden Agenda. - Christopher Moylan: Ovid and Derek Mahon. Poets in Exile. - Jennifer R. Young: Was Niobe Black? Ovid's "Metamorphoses" and the Sister Trope. - John Kinsella: from Metamorphoses Book XI (lines 592-676). - Fred Beake: Pentheus and the Bacchae (Book III, lines 513-733). A Tale after Ovid. - Fred Beake: Afterword to a Version from Ovid. XXI,303 Seiten, gebunden (Wissenschaft und Kunst; Vol. 10/Universitätsverlag Winter 2009)