A Handbook to the Reception of Ovid

527 Pages·2014·5.19 MB·English

by  John F. Miller, Carole E. Newlands

A Handbook to the Reception of Ovid
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Contents
Illustrations ix
NotesonContributors xi
Acknowledgments xvii
Introduction 1
CaroleE.NewlandsandJohnF.Miller
1 Ovid’sSelf-ReceptioninHisExilePoetry 8
K.SaraMyers
2 ModelingReceptioninMetamorphoses:Ovid’sEpicCyclops 22
AndrewFeldherr
3 OvidianMythsonPompeianWalls 36
PeterE.Knox
4 OvidinFlavianOccasionalPoetry(MartialandStatius) 55
GianpieroRosati
5 PoetaeOvidiani:Ovid’sMetamorphosesinImperialRomanEpic 70
AlisonKeith
6 OvidinApuleius’Metamorphoses 86
StephenHarrison
7 APoetbetweenTwoWorlds:OvidinLateAntiquity 100
IanFielding
8 CommentaryandCollaborationintheMedievalAllegorical
Tradition 114
JamieC.Fumo
9 TheMythographicTraditionafterOvid 129
GregoryHays
vi Contents
10 Ovid’sExileandMedievalItalianLiterature:TheLyricTradition 144
CatherineKeen
11 Venus’sClerk:Ovid’sAmatoryPoetryintheMiddleAges 161
MarilynnDesmond
12 TheMetamorphosisofOvidinDante’sDivineComedy 174
DiskinClay
13 OvidinChaucerandGower 187
AndrewGalloway
14 Ovid’sMetamorphosesandtheHistoryofBaroqueArt 202
PaulBarolsky
15 ThePoeticsofTime:TheFastiintheRenaissance 217
MaggieKilgour
16 ShakespeareandOvid 232
SeanKeilen
17 BenJonson’sLightReading 246
HeatherJames
18 LovePoemsinSequence:TheAmoresfromPetrarchtoGoethe 262
GordonBraden
19 DonQuixoteasOvidianText 277
FrederickA.deArmas
20 SpenserandOvid 291
PhilipHardie
21 OvidianIntertextualityinAriosto’sOrlandoFurioso 306
SergioCasali
22 “JoyandHarmlesPastime”:MiltonandtheOvidianArtsofLeisure 324
MandyGreen
23 OvidTranslated:EarlyModernVersionsoftheMetamorphoses 339
DanHooley
24 OvidinRestorationandEighteenth-CenturyEngland 355
JamesM.Horowitz
25 TheInfluenceofOvidinOpera 371
JonSolomon
26 OvidinGermany 386
TheodoreZiolkowski
Contents vii
27 OvidandRussia’sPoetsofExile 401
AndrewKahn
28 Alter-Ovid—ContemporaryArtontheHyphen 416
JillH.Casid
29 ContemporaryPoetry:AfterAfterOvid 436
SarahAnnesBrown
30 Ovid’s“Biography”:NovelsofOvid’sExile 454
RainerGodel
31 OvidandtheCinema:AnIntroduction 469
MartinM.Winkler
Index 485