Approaches to teaching the works of Ovid and the Ovidian tradition / edited by Barbara Weiden Boyd and Cora Fox.

Ovid and his influence are studied in classrooms as various as his poetry, and this Approaches volume aims to help instructors in those diverse teaching environments. Part 1, "Materials," is fittingly collaborative and features brief overviews designed to give nonspecialists background on...

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Other Authors: Boyd, Barbara Weiden, 1952-
Fox, Cora, 1968-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published:New York : The Modern Language Association of America, 2010.
Series:Approaches to teaching world literature ; 113.
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Table of Contents:
  • Ovid's Life and Legacy / Ralph Hexter
  • Roman Religion and Ovid / Christopher M. McDonough
  • Ovide moralise / Raymond Cormier
  • Speaking Pictures : Ovid and the Visual Arts / Bruce Redford
  • Ovid's Texts in the Classroom ; Commentaries on Ovid / Peter E. Knox
  • Ovid in Premodern English Translation / Cora Fox
  • Ovid in Modern Translation / Barbara Weiden Boyd
  • Surveying Pedagogy and Practice : A Report on the MLA Survey / Barbara Weiden Boyd ; Cora Fox
  • Ovid's Classrooms. Caveat Lector : Learning to Read through Ovid / Wendy Chapman Peek
  • Genre Transformed : The "Heroes" of Ovid's Epic / Lorina N. Quartarone
  • Approaches to Teaching Ovid's Tristia / Samuel Huskey
  • From Ovid to Elvis: Teaching Mythology in the Classical Tradition / Nikolai Endres
  • Reading and Teaching Ovid's Amores and Ars amatoria in a Conservative Christian Context / M. L. Stapleton
  • Ovid and His Human Animals / Frank Palmeri
  • Teaching Medea to Freshmen : Ovid, Thematic Criticism, and General Education / Ronald W. Harris
  • Political Ovid. Always Hopeless, Never Serious : Wit and Wordplay in Ovid's Amores / R. W. Hanning
  • Transforming Exile : Teaching Ovid in Tomis / Matthew McGowan
  • Teaching the Really Minor Epic : Literature, Sexuality, and National Belonging in Thomas Edwards's "Narcissus" / Jim Ellis
  • Teaching the Ovidian Shakespeare and the Politics of Emotion / Cora Fox
  • Reforming Metamorphoses : The Epic in Translation as a "Major Work" of the English Renaissance / Scott Maisano
  • Ovid's Genial and Ingenious Story of King Midas / William S. Anderson
  • Gendered and Embodied Ovid. Sex and Violence in Amores / Paul Allen Miller
  • Ovid's Thisbe and a Roman Woman Love Poet / Judith P. Hallett
  • The Lay of the Land : The Rhetoric of Gender in Ovid's "Perseid / Alison Keith
  • Teaching Ovidian Sexualities in English Renaissance Literature / Goran V. Stanivukovic
  • Teaching Marlowe's Translation of Amores / Patrick Cheney
  • Teaching Tiresias : Issues of Gender and Sexuality in Ovid and Beyond / Phyllis Katz
  • Metatextual Ovid. Metamorphoses Metamorphosed : Teaching the Ovidian Tradition / Jamie C. Fumo ; Metamorphoses, Its Tradition, and the Work of Art / Sean Keilen ; Island Hopping : Ovid's Ariadne and Her Texts / Barbara Weiden Boyd ; The Case of Ovid in Dante / Madison U. Sowell ; Captured in Ekphrasis : Cervantes and Ovid / Frederick A. De Armas ; Ovid and Ransmayr : Translating across Cultures and Times / Susan C. Anderson ; Mary Jaeger.