Barry Wood<\/p>\n
Ezra Pound described Golding\u2019s Elizabethan translation of Metamorphoses <\/strong>as \u201cthe most beautiful book in the language\u201d. An exaggeration, no doubt, but a just acknowledgment of its impact on Shakespeare and his contemporaries. Dryden offered neo-classical versions which more or less set the standard for subsequent centuries until a revival of interest in the twentieth century exemplified by TS Eliot\u2019s use of the story of Tiresias in The Waste Land<\/strong>. In more recent times there have been a fair number of translations, including experiments in Ovidian translation in Michael Hofman and James Lasdun (Eds) After Ovid <\/strong>(1994); Ted Hughes Tales from Ovid <\/strong>(1997) and most recently Stephanie McCarter Metamorphoses by Ovid <\/strong>(2022).<\/p>\n The main focus of the course will be on these recent versions of Ovid which are what Dryden called \u2018translation with latitude\u2019; that is, imitations, creative re-inventions, or re-tellings. Some reference will be made to the Latin originals and \u2018literal\u2019 versions;\u00a0 knowledge of Latin will be useful but not essential.<\/p>\n Recommended reading. <\/strong>The introductions to the Hofman\/Lasdun, Hughes, and McCarter books offer interesting insights into their purposes and procedures. Selected tales and extracts will be distributed for detailed and comparative discussion.<\/p>\n Day:\u00a0 Thursdays\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Time: 10.30-12.30<\/strong><\/b><\/p>\n 8 weeks\u00a0Thursday 25 January to 14 March, 2024<\/strong><\/p>\n VENUE<\/strong><\/b>:<\/p>\n Cross Street Chapel, Please send bookings and enquiries to:<\/p>\n Barry Wood; 12 St Brannock\u2019s Road; Manchester;\u00a0 M21 0UP. Barry Wood Ezra Pound described Golding\u2019s Elizabethan translation of Metamorphoses as \u201cthe most beautiful book in the language\u201d. An exaggeration, no doubt, but a just acknowledgment of its impact on Shakespeare and his contemporaries. Dryden offered neo-classical versions which more or less set the standard for subsequent centuries until a revival of interest in the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5513","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mancent.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mancent.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mancent.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mancent.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mancent.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5513"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mancent.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5516,"href":"https:\/\/mancent.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5513\/revisions\/5516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mancent.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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