Ovid – författare
139 kr
Skickas
289 kr
Skickas
301 kr
Skickas inom 3-6 vardagar
The first female translator of the epic into English in over sixty years, Stephanie McCarter addresses accuracy in translation and its representation of women, gendered dynamics of power, and sexual violence in Ovid's classic.
Ovid's Metamorphoses is an epic poem, but one that upturns almost every convention. There is no main hero, no central conflict, and no sustained objective. What it is about (power, defiance, art, love, abuse, grief, rape, war, beauty, and so on) is as changeable as the beings that inhabit its pages. The sustained thread is power and how it transforms us, both those of us who have it and those of us who do not. For those who are brutalized and traumatized, transformation is often the outward manifestation of their trauma.
A beautiful virgin is caught in the gaze of someone more powerful who rapes or tries to rape them, and they ultimately are turned into a tree or a lake or a stone or a bird. The victim's objectification is clear: They are first a visual object, then a sexual object, and finally simply an object. Around 50 of the epic's tales involve rape or attempted rape of women. Past translations have obscured or mitigated Ovid's language so that rape appears to be consensual sex. Through her translation, McCarter considers the responsibility of handling sexual and social dynamics.
Then why continue to read Ovid? McCarter proposes Ovid should be read because he gives us stories through which we can better explore ourselves and our world, and he illuminates problems that humans have been grappling with for millennia.
Careful translation of rape and the body allows readers to see Ovid's nuances clearly and to better appreciate how ideas about sexuality, beauty, and gender are constructed over time.
This is especially important since so many of our own ideas about these phenomena are themselves undergoing rapid metamorphosis, and Ovid can help us see and understand this progression. The Metamorphoses holds up a kaleidoscopic lens to the modern world, one that offers us the opportunity to reflect on contemporary discussions about gender, sexuality, race, violence, art, and identity.
59 kr
Skickas
139 kr
Skickas
199 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
131 kr
Skickas
220 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
190 kr
Skickas
94 kr
Skickas
202 kr
Skickas
168 kr
Skickas
168 kr
Skickas
310 kr
Skickas inom 3-6 vardagar
149 kr
Skickas
546 kr
Skickas inom 7-10 vardagar
561 kr
Skickas inom 7-10 vardagar
446 kr
Skickas inom 7-10 vardagar
900 kr
Skickas inom 3-6 vardagar
368 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
112 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
121 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
820 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
876 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
134 kr
Kommande
114 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
145 kr
Skickas
122 kr
Skickas
752 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
212 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar