Ovid's Presence in Contemporary Women's Writing: Strange Monsters

by Fiona Cox

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 -...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198779887
• ISBN13: 9780198779889
• Release Date: October 2018
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.8" x 8.6"