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(3.29) | None | 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.… (more) |
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. ▾Conversations (About links) No current Talk conversations about this book. » Add other authors Author name | Role | Type of author | Work? | Status | Terry, Philip | Editor, Contributor | primary author | all editions | confirmed | Atwood, Margaret | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Axelrad, Catherine | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Belben, Rosalind | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Byatt, A S | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Duncker, Patricia | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Fitzgerald, M J | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Griffiths, Paul | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Josipovici, Gabriel | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Jouve, Nicole Ward | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Moss, Roger | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Namjoshi, Suniti | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Nelson, Victoria | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Nooteboom, Cees | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Oates, Joyce Carol | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Roberts, Michèle | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Smith, Ken | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Warner, Marina | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | West, Paul | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed |
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▾References References to this work on external resources. Wikipedia in English (1)▾Book descriptions 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. ▾Library descriptions No library descriptions found. ▾LibraryThing members' description
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