Approaches to Teaching the Works of Ovid and the Ovidian Tradition

by Weiden Boyd, Barbara

• ISBN13: 9781603290630
• ISBN10: 160329063X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-01-01
• Publisher: Modern Language Assn of Amer

Summary

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 moralisé. 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.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. ix
Preface	p. 1
Editions Used in This Volume	p. 3
Materials
Ovid's Life and Legacy
Introduction	p. 7
Roman Religion and Ovid	p. 13
Ovide moralisé	p. 18
Speaking Pictures: Ovid and the Visual Arts	p. 23
Ovid's Texts in the Classroom
Commentaries on Ovid	p. 27
Ovid in Premodern English Translation	p. 31
Ovid in Modern Translation	p. 34
Surveying Pedagogy and Practice: A Report on the MLA Survey	p. 39
Approaches
Introduction	p. 49
Ovid's Classrooms
Caveat Lector: Learning to Read through Ovid	p. 57
Genre Transformed: The "Heroes" of Ovid's Epic	p. 64
Approaches to Teaching Ovid's Tristia	p. 73
From Ovid to Elvis: Teaching Mythology in the Classical Tradition	p. 80
Reading and Teaching Ovid's Amores and Ars amatoria in a Conservative Christian Context	p. 88
Ovid and His Human Animals	p. 95
Teaching Medea to Freshmen: Ovid, Thematic Criticism, and General Education	p. 102
Political Ovid
Always Hopeless, Never Serious: Wit and Wordplay in Ovid's Amores	p. 109
Transforming Exile: Teaching Ovid in Tomis	p. 117
Teaching the Really Minor Epic: Literature; Sexuality, and National Belonging in Thomas Edwards's "Narcissus"	p. 126
Teaching the Ovidian Shakespeare and the Politics of Emotion	p. 133
Reforming Metamorphoses: The Epic in Translation as a "Major Work" of the English Renaissance	p. 142
Ovid's Genial and Ingenious Story of King Midas	p. 151
Gendered and Embodied Ovid
Sex and Violence in Amores	p. 161
Ovid's Thisbe and a Roman Woman Love Poet	p. 170
The Lay of the Land: The Rhetoric of Gender in Ovid's "Perseid"	p. 178
Teaching Ovidian Sexualities in English Renaissance Literature	p. 189
Teaching Marlowe's Translation of Amores	p. 197
Teaching Tiresias: Issues of Gender and Sexuality in Ovid and Beyond	p. 204
Metatextual Ovid
Metamorphoses Metamorphosed: Teaching the Ovidian Tradition	p. 212
Metamorphoses, Its Tradition, and the Work of Art	p. 219
Island Hopping: Ovid's Ariadne and Her Texts	p. 225
The Case of Ovid in Dante	p. 234
Captured in Ekphrasis: Cervantes and Ovid	p. 241
Ovid and Ransmayr: Translating across Cultures and Times	p. 250
Notes on Contributors	p. 257
Contributors and Survey Participants	p. 261
Works Cited	p. 263
Index	p. 289
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