Approaches to Teaching the Works of Ovid and the Ovidian Tradition. Approaches to Teaching World Literature, Vol. 113.

From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - Very good and clean. - Sehr gut und sauber. - 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 the more challenging aspects of teaching Ovid. Contributors examine his life and legacy, religion, and relation to the visual arts as well as his afterlife in the Latin classroom, in various translations, and in the Ovide moralise. The editors detail the contexts in which Ovid is taught, identify trends in teaching his work and the Ovidian tradition, and recommend editions and resources for classroom use. The introduction to part 2, �Approaches,� considers Ovid�s relation to Vergil and the development of Ovid�s influence and reception, from the medieval and early modern period to the reinvigoration of Ovid studies in the twentieth century. In the four sections that follow, contributors provide practical ideas for classroom instruction, examine the political and moral discourses shaping Ovid and his legacy, explore how gender and the body are represented in Ovid and the Ovidian tradition, and look at various ways Ovid�s works have been used and transformed by writers as diverse as Dante, Cervantes, and Ransmayr. Contents: Introduction: Ralph Hexter -- Roman Religion and Ovid: Christopher M. McDonough -- Ovide moralis�Raymond Cormier -- Speaking Pictures: Ovid and the Visual Arts: Bruce Redford -- Commentaries on Ovid: Peter E. Knox -- Ovid in Premodem English Translation: Cora Fox -- Ovid in Modem Translation: Barbara Weiden Boyd -- Surveying Pedagogy and Practice: A Report on the MLA Survey: Barbara Weiden Boyd and Cora Fox -- Introduction: Barbara Weiden Boyd and Cora Fox -- 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 -- Always Hopeless, Never Serious: Wit and Wordplay in Ovids 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 -- 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. ISBN 9781603290630