Tuesday, July 26, 2005

SLL 103S Ovid Reading List

SLL 103S ‘Ovid & Ovidianism’ Section, READINGS

Wilkinson, L.P. Ovid Recalled (Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 1955) [shorter version of this book, Ovid Surveyed, is equally useful] (excellent chapters on Ovid’s Amores, Metamorphoses, and influence on English literature) 871.24 WILK

Martindale, Charles (ed.) Ovid renewed : Ovidian influences on literature and art from the Middle Ages to the twentieth century (Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1988)
820.9 OVID

Lerner, Laurence ‘Ovid and the Elizabethans’, in Martindale, Ovid Renewed, pp.121-135 (photocopies in Short Loan)

Taylor, A.B. (ed.) Shakespeare's Ovid: the Metamorphoses in the plays and poems (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000) 822.334 SHAK

Rudd, Niall ‘Pyramus and Thisbe in Shakespeare and Ovid’ , in Taylor, Shakespeare's Ovid, pp.113-125 (photocopies in Short Loan)

Brown, Sarah Annes The metamorphosis of Ovid : from Chaucer to Ted Hughes (London : Duckworth, 1999) Chapters on ‘Ovid and Ovidianism: influence, reception, transformation’, pp.1-22; ‘ The metamorphosis of narrative: A Midsummer Night’s Dream...’, pp.57-84; ‘Carmen perpetuum: Ovid today’, pp.217-228 820.915 BROW

Hofmann, M. & Lasdun,J. (eds.)
After Ovid : new Metamorphoses (London : Faber & Faber, 1994) Contains poems by well-known contemporary poets (Carol Ann Duffy, Ted Hughes, Tom Gunn, Fleur Adcock, Seamus Heaney, Michael Longley and many others), all inspired by Ovid’s Metamorphoses 871.22 META

Lyne, Raphael Ovid’s Changing Worlds: English Metamorphoses 1567-1632 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001)

Martin, Christopher (ed.) Ovid in English (London: Penguin 1998) (selection of translations of Ovid into English, from Chaucer to the present.)

Hardie, Philip (ed.) The Cambridge Companion to Ovid (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002) (Many useful chapters, but especially ‘Part 3: Reception’ dealing with reception of Ovid from Middle Ages to 20th century.)

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