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"The reasons for the conspicuous popularity of Ovid—his life as well as his works—at the turn of the new millennium bear investigation.... This book speaks of the new bodies assumed in the twentieth century by the poems and tales to which Ovid gave...



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Ziolkowski hails a new Ovidian age, a revival that he traces... to the eve of WWI.... But Ovid enters more directly into modern literature in the person of James Joyce's Stephen Daedalus.... Ziolkowski uncovers a daunting profusion of writings of Ovidian inspiration and, as usual, treats the reader to a great banquet of themes and titles to be perused in further readings.

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Ovid and the Moderns

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      Publisher: Cornell University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 24/11/2004
      ISBN13: 9780801442742, 978-0801442742
      ISBN10: 0801442745

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      Book Synopsis

      "The reasons for the conspicuous popularity of Ovid—his life as well as his works—at the turn of the new millennium bear investigation.... This book speaks of the new bodies assumed in the twentieth century by the poems and tales to which Ovid gave...



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      Ziolkowski hails a new Ovidian age, a revival that he traces... to the eve of WWI.... But Ovid enters more directly into modern literature in the person of James Joyce's Stephen Daedalus.... Ziolkowski uncovers a daunting profusion of writings of Ovidian inspiration and, as usual, treats the reader to a great banquet of themes and titles to be perused in further readings.

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