
Ovid Metamorphosed
Philip Terry(Author)
Vintage (Publisher)
Published on 5. April 2001
Book
Paperback/Softback
256 pages
978-0-09-928177-1 (ISBN)
Description
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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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Vintage Publishing
Dimensions
Height: 198 mm
Width: 130 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
185 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-09-928177-1 (9780099281771)
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Person
Philip Terry was born in Belfast in 1962, and educated as Colchester and the Universities of Leeds and Sussex. He has taught in France and lectures at the University of Plymouth.