Tales from Ovid: 24 Passages from the Metamorphoses - Hughes, Ted Review & Synopsis

Synopsis A powerful version of the Latin classic by England's late Poet Laureate, now in paperback.When it was published in 1997, Tales from Ovid was immediately recognized as a classic in its own right, as the best rering of Ovid in generations, and as a major book in Ted Hughes's oeuvre. The Metamorphoses of Ovid stands with the works of Homer, Virgil, Dante, and Milton as a classic of world poetry; Hughes translated twenty-four of its stories with great power and directness. The result is the liveliest twentieth-century version of the classic, at once a delight for the Latinist and an appealing introduction to Ovid for the general reader. Review England's poet laureate Ted Hughes first turned his hand to Ovid's Metamorphoses when he--along with other prominent English-language poets such as Seamus Heaney, Amy Clampitt, and Charles Simic--contributed poems to the anthology After Ovid. In the three years following After Ovid's publication, Hughes continued working with the Metamorphoses, eventually completing the 24 translations collected here. Culling from 250 original tales, Hughes has chosen some of the most violent and disturbing narratives Ovid wrote, including the stories of Echo and Narcissus, Bacchus and Pentheus, and Semele's rape by Jove. Classical purists may be offended at the occasional liberties Hughes takes with Ovid's words, but no one will quarrel with the force and originality of Hughes's verse, or with its narrative skill. This translation is an unusual triumph--a work informed by the passion and wit of Ovid, yet suffused with Hughes's own distinctive poetic sensibility. Ted Hughes was Poet Laureate of England and the author of many books of poetry. His works include Phedre, Birthday Letters, and Oresteia of Aeschylus, among others. He died in 1998. Tales from Ovid When Michael Hofmann and James Lasdun's ground-breaking anthology After Ovid (also Faber) was published in 1995, Hughes's three contributions to the collective effort were nominated by most critics as outstanding. He had shown that rare translator's gift for providing not just an accurate account of the original, but one so thoroughly imbued with his own qualities that it was as if Latin and English poetwere somehow the same person. Tales from Ovid, which went on to win the Whitbread Prize for Poetry, continued the project of recreation with 24 passages, including the stories of Phaeton, Actaeon, Echo and Narcissus, Procne, Midas and Pyramus and Thisbe. In them, Hughes's supreme narrative and poetic skills combine to produce a book that stands, alongside his Crow and Gaudete, as an inspired addition to the myth-making of our time. Tales from Ovid, which went on to win the Whitbread Prize for Poetry, continued the project of recreation with 24 passages, including the stories of Phaeton, Actaeon, Echo and Narcissus, Procne, Midas and Pyramus and Thisbe." Tales from Ovid Limited Edition Hughes's three contributions to the anthology After Ovid an accurate account of the original so thoroughly imbued with his own qualities that it was as if Latin and English poet were somehow the same person. This volume continues the project, with 24 passages including the stories of Phaeton, Actaon, Echo and Narcissus, Procne and Midas. The" Metamorphoses of Ovid" stands with the works of Homer, Virgil, Dante, and Milton as a classic of world poetry; Hughes translated twenty-four of its stories with great power and directness." A Feminist Theory of Refusal An acclaimed political theorist offers a fresh, interdisciplinary analysis of the politics of refusal, highlighting the promise of a feminist politics that does not simply withdraw from the status quo but also transforms it. The Bacchae, Euripides’s fifth-century tragedy, famously depicts the wine god Dionysus and the women who follow him as indolent, drunken, mad. But Bonnie Honig sees the women differently. They reject work, not out of laziness, but because they have had enough of women’s routine obedience. Later they escape prison, leave the city of Thebes, explore alternative lifestyles, kill the king, and then return to claim the city. Their “arc of refusal,” Honig argues, can inspire a new feminist politics of refusal. Refusal, the withdrawal from unjust political and economic systems, is a key theme in political philosophy. Its best-known literary avatar is Herman Melville’s Bartleby, whose response to every request is, “I prefer not to.” A feminist politics of refusal, by contrast, cannot simply decline to participate in the machinations of power. Honig argues that a feminist refusal aims at transformation and, ultimately, self-governance. Withdrawal is a first step, not the end game. Rethinking the concepts of refusal in the work of Giorgio Agamben, Adriana Cavarero, and Saidiya Hartman, Honig places collective efforts toward self-governance at refusal’s core and, in doing so, invigorates discourse on civil and uncivil disobedience. She seeks new protagonists in film, art, and in historical and fictional figures including Sophocles’s Antigone, Ovid’s Procne, Charlie Chaplin’s Tramp, Leonardo da Vinci’s Madonna, and Muhammad Ali. Rather than decline the corruptions of politics, these agents of refusal join the women of Thebes first in saying no and then in risking to undertake transformative action. Ted Hughes's version (“Tereus,” in Tales from Ovid : 24 Passages from the Metamorphoses [New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1999], 236–237) is riveting: Still calling to her father And to the gods And still trying to curse him As he ..." Common Ground "Even in our parceled-out, paved-over urban environs, nature is all around us, it is in us. It is us. This is what Rob Cowen discovered after moving to a new home in northern England. After ten years in London, he was suddenly adrift, searching for a sense of connection. He found himself drawn to a square-mile patch of waste ground at the edge of town. Scrappy, weed-filled, this heart-shaped tangle of land was the very definition of overlooked - a thoroughly in-between place that capitalism had no further use for, leaving nature to take its course. Wandering in meadows, woods, hedges, and fields, Cowen found it was also a magical, mysterious place, haunted and haunting, abandoned but wildly alive - and he fell in fascinated love."--Book jacket. 189 'They've made it again': Ted Hughes , 'Swifts', as featured in The Poetry of Birds, Viking, 2009, edited by Simon Armitage and Tim ... changed': Ted Hughes , Tales from Ovid : 24 Passages from the Metamorphoses , Faber & Faber, 2002." Poetry & Translation `The conviction, pleasures and gratitude of committed reading are evident in his affirmation of the poetic contract between readers and writers.' Andrea Brady, Poetry Review -- On such 24 Ted Hughes , Tales from Ovid : Twenty-Four Passages from the Metamorphoses (London: Faber & Faber, 1997), p. 245. 25 David Wheatley and Justin Quinn, 'Tereus, Procne, Philomela', After Ovid: New Metamorphoses , ed." Adaptations, Versions and Perversions in Modern British Drama This book aims to explore which plays were deemed ‘suitable’ to be reworked for foreign or local stages; what transformations – linguistic, semiotic, theatrical – were undertaken so as to accommodate international audiences; how national literary traditions are forged, altered, and diluted by means of transnational adapting techniques; and, finally, to what extent the categorical boundaries between original plays and adaptations may be blurred on the account of such adjusting textual strategies. It brings together ten articles that scrutinise the linguistic, social, political and theatrical complexities inherent in the intercultural transference of plays. The approaches presented by the different contributors investigate modern British theatre as an instance of diachronic and synchronic transnational adaptations based upon a myriad of influences originating in, and projected upon, other national dramatic traditions. These traditions, rooted in relatively distant geographies and epochs, are traced so as to illustrate the split between the state-imposed identity and personal, subjective identity caused by cultural negotiations of the self in an age of globalism. International frontiers are thus pointed at in order to claim the need to be transcended in the process of cultural re-appropriation associated with theatre performance for international audiences. The Guardian 24 October http://www.guardian.co.uk/stage/2000/oct/ 24 / theatre.artsfeatures (Accessed 1 June, 2012) Harrison, Stephen J., ed. ... Hughes , Ted 1997: Tales from Ovid : Twenty-four Passages from the Metamorphoses ." Collected Poems of Ted Hughes For the first time, the vast canon of the poetry of Ted Hughes - winner of the Whitbread and Forward Prizes and former Poet Laureate - together in a single e-book. The Collected Poems spans fifty years of work, from Hawk in the Rain to the best-selling Birthday Letters. It also includes the complete texts of such seminal publications as Crow and Tales from Ovid as well as those children's poems that Hughes felt crossed over into adult poetry. Most significantly it also includes small press publications and editions that, until now, remain uncollected and have never before been available to a general readership. 'A guardian spirit of the land and language.' Seamus Heaney Ted Hughes Paul Keegan ... occasion of the funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales TALES FROM OVID Published by Faber and Faber, May 1997 (simultaneously with a Faber limited edition). Subtitle: Twenty-Four Passages from the Metamorphoses ." ThirdWay Monthly current affairs magazine from a Christian perspective with a focus on politics, society, economics and culture. I hope it is obvious by now that Chaim Potok is a gifted narrator, capable of interesting even 'outsiders' in the lives and ... Graphic suffering In My Name is Asher Lev the central themes are good versus evil, and freedom of choice." Darkness Darkness divides and enlivens opinion. Some are afraid of the dark, or at least prefer to avoid it, and there are many who dislike what it appears to stand for. Others are drawn to this strange domain, delighting in its uncertainties, lured by all the associations of folklore and legend, by the call of the mysterious and of the unknown. The history of our attitudes toward darkness—toward what we cannot quite make out, in all its physical and metaphorical manifestations—challenges the very notion of a world that we can fully comprehend. In this book, Nina Edwards explores darkness as both a physical feature and cultural image, through themes of sight, blindness, consciousness, dreams, fear of the dark, night blindness, and the in-between states of dusk or fog, twilight and dawn, those points or periods of obscuration and clarification. Taking us across the ages, from the dungeons of Gothic novels to the concrete bunkers of Nordic Noir TV shows, Edwards interrogates the full sweep of humanity’s attempts to harness and suppress the dark first through our ability to control fire and, later, illuminate the world with electricity. She explores how the idea of darkness pervades art, literature, religion, and our everyday language. Ultimately, Edwards reveals how darkness, whether a shifting concept or palpable physical presence, has fed our imaginations. 22 John M. Hull, Touching the Rock: An Experience of Blindness (London, 23 24 25 26 1990). Ted Hughes , 'Creation; Four Ages; Flood; Lycaon', in Tales from Ovid : Twenty-four Passages from the Metamorphoses (London, 1997)." New Statesman I am not quite sure what The Secret Diaries Although set , literally , in a drawing room ( at of Miss Anne Lister would have amounted to . Chequers ) , its world has acquired some of the To be honest , the only selling point of Anne's ..." On Allegory This collection of essays focuses on the ubiquity of the allegorical imagination in pre-modern western culture, and participates in a recent wave of resurgence of interest in the complex practices and ideas usually defined by the word "allegory". The contributors study the impact of the allegorical imagination on the production, reception and interpretation of literature, as well as its function as a tool of philosophical and theological enquiry, and its role in shaping the visual arts. Essays focus on subjects as varied as the general theories on allegory, allegory's relation to the human imagination, its usefulness or even inevitability as a human mode of cognition and its potential for the encoding of meanings that may be political, historical, religious and amorous. They discuss canonical figures such as Petrarch, Boccaccio, Boethius, Hans Memling, Pico della Mirandola, King James I and John Donne, but extend to include neglected but equally important figures such as Stephen Hawes or Thomas Usk as well as thematic approaches less concerned with issues of authority and authorship. As such the collection is a testimony to the variety, complexity, and adaptability of "allegory" at the heart of medieval western civilisation. Hughes , Ted . 1997. Tales from Ovid : Twenty-Four Passages from the Metamorphoses . London: Faber and Faber. Hunt, R. W. 1948. The Introductions to the Artes in the Twelfth Century. In Studia medievalia in honorem admodum Reverendi Patris ..." Animals in Young Adult Fiction Of the many themes occurring in young adult literature, one that bears more extensive exploration is the adolescent-animal connection. 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This premise can be found in the creation myths of numerous cultures, including those of India. 25. The creation of entirely new ... Ovid, Tales From Ovid : Twenty-Four Passages From the Metamorphoses , trans. Ted Hughes (New York: ..." The Spectator 15Jun27(AR) Breaking the Silence ( Mermaid ), 15 Jun 28( AR) Brecon and Radnor by-election, the: the campaign, 22 Jun 14(A); the candidates' chances, 29 Jun 6(PC); 29 Jun 7(D) Brett . Dorothv: a biography. 26 Jan 25(R) Brett ." Fantastic Metamorphoses, Other Worlds Metamorphosis is a dynamic principle of creation, vital to natural processes of generation and evolution, growth and decay, yet it also threatens personal identity if human beings are subject to a continual process of bodily transformation. Shape-shifting also belongs in the landscape ofmagic, witchcraft, and wonder, and enlivens classical mythology, early modern fairy tales and uncanny fictions of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This collection of essays, given as the Clarendon Lectures in English 2001, takes four dominant processes of metamorphosis: Mutating, Hatching,Splitting, and Doubling, and explores their metaphorical power in the evication of human personality. Marina Warner traces this story against a background of historical encounters with different cultures, especially with the Caribbean. Beginning with Ovid's great poem, The Metamorphoses, as thefounding text of the metamorphic tradition, she takes us on a journey of exploration, into the fantastic art of Hieronymous Bosch, the legends of the Taino people, the life cycle of the butterfly, the myth of Leda and the Swan, the genealogy of the Zombie, the pantomime of Aladdin, the haunting ofdoppelgangers, the coming of photography, and the late fiction of Lewis Carroll. Ted Hughes , Introduction, Tales from Ovid , pp. ix–x; see also Marina Warner, Hoopoe', in Nick Gammage (ed.), The Epic Poise: A Tribute to Ted Hughes (London, 1999). Metamorphoses , Book XI, lines 221–42; Met/Loeb, ii." Ovid Newlands provides an extensive overview and analysis of Ovid s works." 4 Ted Hughes , Tales from Ovid (London, 1997). On Ovid's extensive use of tragic sources in the Metamorphoses see Dan Curley, Tragedy in Ovid (Cambridge, 2013). Peter Knox, 'The poet and the second prince: Ovid in the age of Tiberius', ..." Writer's Guide to Book Editors, Publishers and Literary Agents, 1999-2000 Over the years, "Writer's Guide to Book Editors, Publishers, and Literary Agents has helped thousands of writers just like you get their books published. With the best and most up-to-date listings of key book publishing insiders, "Writer's Guide gets you past the reject piles and into the hands of the right people. Nowhere else will you find the detail, the insight, the depth. Nowhere else will you find the solid inside information. "Writer's Guide is your key to book publishing success. It gets you inside. It gets you noticed. 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Great Adaptations: Screenwriting and Global Storytelling Great Adaptations: Screenwriting and Global Storytelling is the Second Place Winner in the 2019 International Writers Awards! A vast majority of Academy Award-winning Best Pictures, television movies of the week, and mini-series are adaptations, watched by millions of people globally. Great Adaptations: Screenwriting and Global Storytelling examines the technical methods of adapting novels, short stories, plays, life stories, magazine articles, blogs, comic books, graphic novels and videogames from one medium to another, focusing on the screenplay. Written in a clear and succinct style, perfect for intermediate and advanced screenwriting students, Great Adaptations explores topics essential to fully appreciating the creative, historical and sociological aspects of the adaptation process. It also provides up-to-date, practical advice on the legalities of acquiring rights and optioning and selling adaptations, and is inclusive of a diverse variety of perspectives that will inspire and challenge students and screenwriters alike. Please follow the link below to a short excerpt from an interview with Carole Dean about Great Adaptations: https://fromtheheartproductions.com/getting-creative-when-creating-great-adaptations/ Ovid, The Metamorphoses of Ovid, VIII, trans. by David R. Slavitt (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994), 195. Ted Hughes , Tales from Ovid (London: Faber & Faber, 1997). Virgil, The Georgics, Book 4, lines 484–497." Ovid in English Witty, erotic, sceptical and subversive, Ovid (c. 43BC-AD17) has been a seminal presence in English literature from the time of Chaucer and Caxton to Ted Hughes and Seamus Heaney. This superb selection brings together complete elegies from the Amores, Heroides and poems of exile as well as many self-contained episodes from the longer works, vividly revealing both the sheer variety of Ovid's genius and the range of his impact on the English imagination. In 1997 , Hughes released his Tales from Ovid , which renders 24 episodes from the Metamorphoses . The following lines from Book I come from his contribution to 1994's After Ovid : New Metamorphoses , a bold reworking of Ovid's myths by ..." The Illustrated London News The Duke of Johnson , Frederick ; Curate of Otley , Ipswich . communion should be called upon to repudiate it . ... The Duke of Edinburgh and Prince Christian largement of the Church of the Holy Sepulclire , Northampton ." Memory, Metaphors, and Meaning Literature explores the human condition, the mystery of the world, life and death, as well as our relations with others, and our desires and dreams. It differs from science in its aims and methods, but Babuts shows in other respects that literature has much common ground with science. Both aim for an authentic version of truth. To this end, literature employs metaphors, and it does so in a manner similar to that of scientific inquiry.The cognitive view does not imply that there is a one-to-one correlation between the world and text, that meaning belongs to the author, or that literature is equivalent to perception. What it does maintain is that meaning is crucially dependent on mnemonic initiatives and that without memory, the world remains meaningless. Nicolae Babuts claims that at the interface with the printed page, readers process texts in a manner similar to the way they explain the visible world: in segments or units of meaning or dynamic patterns.Babuts argues that humans achieve recognition by integrating stimulus sequences with corresponding patterns that recognize and interpret each segment of a text. Memory produces meaning from these patterns. In harmony with its goals, memory may adopt specific strategies to deal with different stimuli. Dynamic patterns link the unit of processing with the unit of meaning. In sum, Babuts proposes that meaning is achieved through metaphors and narrative, and that both are ways to reach cognitive goals. This original study offers perspectives that will interest cognitive psychologists, as well as those simply interested in the process through which literature stirs the human imagination. Hughes's “The Hawk in the Rain” ends on the theme of the hawk's possible future fall, as the bird “suffers the air ... Ovid's the Metamorphoses is devoted to retelling the ancient myths. ... In rendering Ovid's tale of Niobe, Ted Hughes ..." The Hungarian Quarterly even Charles Newman are missing , though from a number of letters we learn about Hughes's interest in other East ... a hundred lines from Homer's Odyssey and produced a whole book on Ovid's Metamorphoses entitled Tales from Ovid ( Faber ..."