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1	Medusa's Metamorphosis In Victorian Women's Art and Poetry McConkey, Emily 08 November 2021 (has links) This thesis examines the figure of Medusa in the works of three Victorian women: the poets Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861) and Christina Rossetti (1830-1894), and the artist Evelyn De Morgan (1855-1919). For many in an era that sought to categorize women according to rigid social boundaries, Medusa embodied all that is suspicious, dangerous, and alluring about women. But in subtle and unexpected ways, these three women reimagined the Medusa archetype and used it to explore female experience and expression, as well as the challenges and complexities of female authorship. In their works, Medusa, like other hybrid personae such as the mermaid and the lamia, became a figure through which to explore liminal spaces and slippery categories. I argue that these women prefigured the twentieth-century feminist rehabilitation of Medusa. I also suggest that this proto-feminist transformation of the myth draws, directly and indirectly, from the tradition of Ovid, the first poet to suggest that Medusa’s monstrosity resulted from her victimhood and that her power is not merely destructive, but also creative. My analysis contends that, contrary to common understanding, women were revisioning Medusa’s meaning well before the twentieth century. Medusa Victorian Poetry Metamorphoses Victorian Literature Christina Rossetti Elizabeth Barrett Browning Evelyn de Morgan Victorian Art Pre-Raphaelite Petrarch Ovid Dante Classical reception Ovidian reception
2	Physical and Ontological Transformation: Metamorphosis and Transfiguration in Old French and Occitan Texts (11th –15th Centuries) Estes, Darrell Wayne 12 December 2017 (has links) No description available. Middle Ages Literature Medieval Literature metamorphosis transformation transfiguration medieval French literature Occitan disguise degradation clothing Ovid Ovidian Old French Old Occitan tropes Robert le diable Flamenca Marie lEgyptienne change
3	Ozvěny Ovidiových Proměn / Echoes of Ovid's Metamorphoses Stašová, Ema January 2013 (has links) The aim of this study is to compare selected episodes of Ovid's Metamorphoses with three works of modern literature containing the theme of metamorphosis, and to follow their intertextual relations, dependency and innovation of Ovidian themes. On the basis of a comparison of the ancient and the modern text it is examined which motives remain constant during centuries and which, on the contrary, are evolving and shifting their meanings. Through the perspective of the Metamorphoses an attempt is made to interpret the works from a less usual angle. The most significant Ovidian characters that are examined in this study are Teiresias, Daphne, Hyacinth, Orpheus, Ceres, Icarus, Callisto and Io.

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