Ovid's Presence in Contemporary Women's Writing: Strange Monsters

ISBN-13: 9780198779889 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 272 str.

Fiona Cox

Opis

In a series of case studies of prominent female authors - from Ali Smith and Marina Warner to Alice Oswald and Yoko Tawada - this volume examines the figure of Ovid who emerges from the hands of contemporary women writers and explores the intersections between his imaginative universe and the political and aesthetic agenda of third-wave feminism.

Recenzje

Cox draws attention to the intrinsic otherness of the woman writer, whatever the subject of her writing ... Readers will find not just a list of literary encounters with Ovid, but also an incentive to investigate them more thoroughly, and to consider whether Ovid has really achieved the undying fame that he once sought.

O autorze

Fiona Cox is Senior Lecturer in French at the University of Exeter, and has previously worked at the National University of Ireland, Cork and Université Michel de Montaigne Bordeaux III. She is the author of Aeneas Takes the Metro: The Presence of Virgil in Twentieth-Century French Literature (Routledge, 1999) and Sibylline Sisters: Virgil's Presence in Contemporary Women's Writing (OUP, 2011). She has also published widely in the area of nineteenth-century French literature, particularly on Victor Hugo, and is currently editing a volume entitled Homer's Daughters: Homer's Presence in Women's Writing, 1914-2014 with Elena Theodorakopoulos (forthcoming with OUP).