This innovative study analyses the presence of Ovid in contemporary
women's writing through a series of insightful case studies of
prominent female authors, from Ali Smith, Marina Warner, and Marie
Darrieussecq, to Alice Oswald, Saviana Stanescu, and Yoko Tawada.
Using Ovid in their engagements with a wide range of issues
besetting our twenty-first century world - homelessness, refugees,
the financial crisis, internet porn, anorexia, body image - these
writers echo the poet's preoccupation in his own work with fleeting
fame, shape-shifting, and the dangers of immediate gratification,
and make evident that these concerns are not only quintessentially
modern, but also peculiarly Ovidian. Moving beyond the concern of
second-wave feminism with recovering silenced female voices and
establishing a female perspective within canonical works, the
volume places particular emphasis on the intersections between
Ovid's imaginative universe and the political and aesthetic agenda
of third-wave feminism. Focusing on its subjects' socially and
politically charged re-shapings, re-imaginings, and receptions of
Ovid, it not only demonstrates the extraordinary plasticity of his
writing, but also of its myriad re-castings and
re-contextualizations within contemporary culture (in terms of
genre alone, the works discussed included translations, poetry,
plays, novels, short stories, and memoirs). In so doing, it not
only offers us a valuable perspective on the work of the selected
female authors and a new and vital landmark in the history of
Ovidian reception, but also reveals to us an Ovid who remains our
contemporary and an enduring source of inspiration.
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