Ovid Metamorphosed by Philip Terry
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.
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.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780099281771 |
| ISBN 10 | 0099281775 |
| Title | Ovid Metamorphosed |
| Author | Philip Terry |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Vintage Publishing |
| Year published | 2001-04-05 |
| Number of pages | 256 |
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