Autor(en)

Kilgour, Maggie:

Verlag / Jahr

Oxford University Press, 2012.

Format / Einband

21,8 x 3,0 x 14,5 cm, Original hardcover with dust jacket. 373 p.

Sprache

Englisch

Gewicht

ca. 585 g

ISBN

0199589437

EAN

9780199589432

Bestell-Nr

1166691

Bemerkungen

From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - A pristine copy. - The texts, ideas, images, and material culture of ancient Greece and Rome have always been crucial to attempts to appropriate the past in order to authenticate the present. They underlie the mapping of change and the assertion and challenging of values and identities, old and new. Classical Presences brings the latest scholarship to bear on the contexts, theory, and practice of such use, and abuse, of the classical past. - Milton and the Metamorphosis of Ovid contributes to our understanding of the Roman poet Ovid, the Renaissance writer Milton, and more broadly the transmission and transformation of classical traditions through history. Arguing that Ovid’s revision of the past gave Renaissance writers a model for their own metamorphosis of classical works, Kilgour examines the ways in which Milton draws not only on Ovid’s writings, but also on the long tradition of reception that had begun with Ovid himself. Throughout his career Milton thinks through and with Ovid, whose stories and figures inform his treatment of the Ümits and possibilities of creativity, change, and freedom. Focusing on the specific relation between two very individual and different authors, Kilgour also explores the forms and meaning of creative imitation. Intertexuality was not only central to the two writers’ poetic practices but helped shape their visions of the world. While many critics seek to establish how Milton read Ovid, Kilgour also makes us consider why it is important to understand how Milton read Ovid. Our reading of this relation changes our understanding of both authors; moreover, it helps us see how traditions are changed and remade through time. Bringing together new work on Milton, Ovid, and the reception of classical literature, this volume aims to show how the past both transforms and is transformed by the present. ISBN 9780199589432

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