The metamorphoses
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"The first female translator of the epic into English in over sixty years, Stephanie McCarter addresses accuracy in translation and its representation of women, gendered dynamics of power, and sexual violence in Ovid's classic. Ovid's Metamorphoses is an epic poem, but one that upturns almost every convention. There is no main hero, no central conflict, and no sustained objective. What it is about (power, defiance, art, love, abuse, grief, rape, war, beauty, and so on) is as changeable as the beings that inhabit its pages. The sustained thread is power and how it transforms us, both those of us who have it and those of us who do not. For those who are brutalized and traumatized, transformation is often the outward manifestation of their trauma. A beautiful virgin is caught in the gaze of someone more powerful who rapes or tries to rape them, and they ultimately are turned into a tree or a lake or a stone or a bird. The victim's objectification is clear: They are first a visual object, then a sexual object, and finally simply an object. Around 50 of the epic's tales involve rape or attempted rape of women. Past translations have obscured or mitigated Ovid's language so that rape appears to be consensual sex. Through her translation, McCarter considers the responsibility of handling sexual and social dynamics. Then why continue to read Ovid? McCarter proposes Ovid should be read because he gives us stories through which we can better explore ourselves and our world, and he illuminates problems that humans have been grappling with for millennia. Careful translation of rape and the body allows readers to see Ovid's nuances clearly and to better appreciate how ideas about sexuality, beauty, and gender are constructed over time. This is especially important since so many of our own ideas about these phenomena are themselves undergoing rapid metamorphosis, and Ovid can help us see and understand this progression. The Metamorphoses holds up a kaleidoscopic lens to the modern world, one that offers us the opportunity to reflect on contemporary discussions about gender, sexuality, race, violence, art, and identity"--
Subjects
Subjects
Ancient
Ancient -- Fiction
Christian fiction
Electronic books
Electronic books. -- Fiction
Epic poetry
Epic poetry, Latin
Epic poetry, Latin -- Translations into English
Epic poetry -- Fiction
Fables
Fables, Latin
Fables, Latin -- Translations into English
Fiction
History
History -- Fiction
Legends
Legends -- Fiction
Literary criticism
Metamorphosis
Metamorphosis -- Mythology -- Poetry
Mind and body
Mythology
Mythology, Classical
Mythology, Classical -- Poetry
Mythology -- Fiction
Narrative poetry
Ovid
Ovid, -- 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D. -- Metamorphoses
Philosophy
Poetry
Rome (Italy)
Western fiction
Ancient -- Fiction
Christian fiction
Electronic books
Electronic books. -- Fiction
Epic poetry
Epic poetry, Latin
Epic poetry, Latin -- Translations into English
Epic poetry -- Fiction
Fables
Fables, Latin
Fables, Latin -- Translations into English
Fiction
History
History -- Fiction
Legends
Legends -- Fiction
Literary criticism
Metamorphosis
Metamorphosis -- Mythology -- Poetry
Mind and body
Mythology
Mythology, Classical
Mythology, Classical -- Poetry
Mythology -- Fiction
Narrative poetry
Ovid
Ovid, -- 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D. -- Metamorphoses
Philosophy
Poetry
Rome (Italy)
Western fiction
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9781593082765
9781504062589
9781596749955
9780143134237
9781420977325
9780253033703
9780375712319
9782357288942
9780253200013
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9781843796329
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9783986773373
9780486153629
9780451527936
9781420954555
9780192834720
9781787240186
Lexile measure:
1180L
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Gregory, Horace, 1898-1982
Horovitch, David
Humphries, Rolfe
Mandelbaum, Allen, 1926-2011
McCarter, Stephanie
Melville, A. D.
Miller, Frank Justus
Reed, J. D.
Squillace, Robert, 1958-
Horovitch, David
Humphries, Rolfe
Mandelbaum, Allen, 1926-2011
McCarter, Stephanie
Melville, A. D.
Miller, Frank Justus
Reed, J. D.
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"The first female translator of the epic into English in over sixty years, Stephanie McCarter addresses accuracy in translation and its representation of women, gendered dynamics of power, and sexual violence in Ovid's classic. Ovid's Metamorphoses is an epic poem, but one that upturns almost every convention. There is no main hero, no central conflict, and no sustained objective. What it is about (power, defiance, art, love, abuse, grief, rape, war, beauty, and so on) is as changeable as the beings that inhabit its pages. The sustained thread is power and how it transforms us, both those of us who have it and those of us who do not. For those who are brutalized and traumatized, transformation is often the outward manifestation of their trauma. A beautiful virgin is caught in the gaze of someone more powerful who rapes or tries to rape them, and they ultimately are turned into a tree or a lake or a stone or a bird. The victim's objectification is clear: They are first a visual object, then a sexual object, and finally simply an object. Around 50 of the epic's tales involve rape or attempted rape of women. Past translations have obscured or mitigated Ovid's language so that rape appears to be consensual sex. Through her translation, McCarter considers the responsibility of handling sexual and social dynamics. Then why continue to read Ovid? McCarter proposes Ovid should be read because he gives us stories through which we can better explore ourselves and our world, and he illuminates problems that humans have been grappling with for millennia. Careful translation of rape and the body allows readers to see Ovid's nuances clearly and to better appreciate how ideas about sexuality, beauty, and gender are constructed over time. This is especially important since so many of our own ideas about these phenomena are themselves undergoing rapid metamorphosis, and Ovid can help us see and understand this progression. The Metamorphoses holds up a kaleidoscopic lens to the modern world, one that offers us the opportunity to reflect on contemporary discussions about gender, sexuality, race, violence, art, and identity"--
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Epic poetry, Latin -- Translations into English
Fables
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Legends -- Fiction
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Philosophy
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Western fiction
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Christian fiction
Electronic books
Electronic books. -- Fiction
Epic poetry
Epic poetry -- Fiction
Epic poetry, Latin -- Translations into English
Fables
Fables, Latin -- Translations into English
Fiction
History -- Fiction
Legends -- Fiction
Literary criticism
Metamorphosis -- Mythology -- Poetry
Mind and body
Mythology -- Fiction
Mythology, Classical -- Poetry
Narrative poetry
Ovid, -- 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D. -- Metamorphoses
Philosophy
Poetry
Rome (Italy)
Western fiction
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The metamorphoses
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Metamorphoses / Ovid ; translated by A.D. Melville ; with an introduction and notes by E.J. Kenney
Metamorphoses / Ovid ; translated by Rolfe Humphries ; annotated by J.D. Reed
Metamorphoses / Ovid ; translated with an introduction by Stephanie McCarter
Metamorphoses / Ovid; translated by Rolfe Humphries
Metamorphoses [electronic resource] / Ovid
The Metamorphoses / Ovid; a complete new version by Horace Gregory. With decorations by Zhenya Gay
The Metamorphoses / by Ovid ; translated by Allen Mandelbaum, with an introduction by J. C. McKeown
The Metamorphoses [electronic resource] / Ovid
The metamorphoses / Ovid ; translated and with an introduction by Horace Gregory ; with decorations by Zhenya Gay
The metamorphoses / edited with an introduction and notes by Robert Squillace ; translated by Frank Justus Miller
Metamorphoses / Ovid ; translated by Rolfe Humphries ; annotated by J.D. Reed
Metamorphoses / Ovid ; translated with an introduction by Stephanie McCarter
Metamorphoses / Ovid; translated by Rolfe Humphries
Metamorphoses [electronic resource] / Ovid
The Metamorphoses / Ovid; a complete new version by Horace Gregory. With decorations by Zhenya Gay
The Metamorphoses / by Ovid ; translated by Allen Mandelbaum, with an introduction by J. C. McKeown
The Metamorphoses [electronic resource] / Ovid
The metamorphoses / Ovid ; translated and with an introduction by Horace Gregory ; with decorations by Zhenya Gay
The metamorphoses / edited with an introduction and notes by Robert Squillace ; translated by Frank Justus Miller
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The metamorphoses
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Fables, Latin
History
Legends
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