Retrieve Ovid Metamorphosed By Philip Terry Presented As File
interesting read! I will add my voice to the other reviewers saying that it is a bit of a mixed bag, but there were three real standouts to me which made me really glad to have read this collection.
I was surprised by some of the names in this collection A, S. Byatt, Margaret Atwood, and Joyce Carol Oates to name a few, Many authors took a very somber, heavy tone in their retellings, and others were quite tongueincheek,
What stood out to me the most was how much harder it was for me to read all of the rape and violence in Ovids myths when they were presented in the shortstory format.
They weighed heavier on me, and I felt more intimately connected to the women, Many authors added further rape and violence to Ovids original tales, which is understandable given their frequency in myth but, again, hard to read,
Three because this was a mixed bag I loved some of the retellings and thought they added a lot to my understanding of the original, and a felt very MEHHHH about others.
As another reviewer said, three for a very mixed bag, Some of these were wonderful and made me
immediately want to go out and buy more of the author's work, some I found a surprise and sat wondering "why THIS volume, editor" A.
S. Byatt was one such, though I did quite like the piece, and some were just, . . painful to read. Whether because the punctuation was offputting one of J, C. O's sentences literally went for an entire page or stylistic choice Leto's Flight, No. The filth and gore was just not necessary, Overall though, a lovely set of interpretations and reinterpretations of one of my favourite writers, and a work I will take much glee in inflicting upon the next lot of students who are unfortunate enough to have me for their tutor on Ovidian reception studies.
Who doesn't love the horrendous tales of mischievous gods who are down right horrible Greek mythology is not for the faint of heart, The shapeshifting poetry of Ovid's Metamorphoses has fascinated writers and artists from Shakespeare to Ted Hughes, Rembrandt to Picasso, Its eternal freshness is haunted by an ancient idea: that a person's true nature is revealed when their physical shape is changed the wolflike man becomes a wolf, the obsessive spinner a spider.
For this dazzling collection Philip Terry asked leading writers to take Ovid as a starting point and set their invention free, The results are startling, from Apollo and Phaeton transposed to a Dutch classroom to Diana and Actaeon in the rain of Nova Scotia, We find fables, grotesques and whitecoated scientists sportscars, swans and shells and even Ovid himself, highspirited and unrepentant, speaking to us from beyond the grave, Challenging the very shape of the modern short story, Ovid Metamorphosed is a kaleidoscope of delights, scary, sexy, suggestive and profoundly entertaining, .