Ovid Metamorphosed Paperback / softback
by Philip Terry
Paperback / softback
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The shape-shifting 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 wolf-like 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 white-coated scientists; sports-cars, swans and shells; and even Ovid himself, high-spirited 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.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:256 pages
- Publisher:Vintage Publishing
- Publication Date:05/04/2001
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- ISBN:9780099281771
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:256 pages
- Publisher:Vintage Publishing
- Publication Date:05/04/2001
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- ISBN:9780099281771
