"Drawing together an interdisciplinary range of scholarly and creative voices, this volume looks at contemporary discussions surrounding women's engagement with the classical past. There is a discussion as to why classical creative retellings are so popular now, as well as considerations of what creativity can do to foster new ways of thinking and writing about classics, thus blurring the boundary between the creative and the critical. In particular, the contributors engage with debates on how to make classics more accessible through the medium of creative works, so that it is not just a discipline for the selective few"--…mehr
"Drawing together an interdisciplinary range of scholarly and creative voices, this volume looks at contemporary discussions surrounding women's engagement with the classical past. There is a discussion as to why classical creative retellings are so popular now, as well as considerations of what creativity can do to foster new ways of thinking and writing about classics, thus blurring the boundary between the creative and the critical. In particular, the contributors engage with debates on how to make classics more accessible through the medium of creative works, so that it is not just a discipline for the selective few"--
Emily Hauser is Senior Lecturer in Classics and Ancient History at the University of Exeter, UK. She is author of Mythica: A New History of Homer's World, Through the Women Written Out of It (2025), How Women Became Poets (2023) and For the Most Beautiful (2016). She is co-editor of Reading Poetry, Writing Genre (2018). Helena Taylor is Associate Professor of French and Comparative Literature at the University of Exeter, UK. She is author of Women Writing Antiquity: Gender and Learning in Early Modern France (2024) and The Lives of Ovid in Seventeenth-Century French Culture (2017). She is co-editor of Ovid in French: Reception by Women from the Renaissance to the Present (2023) and Women and Querelles in Early Modern France (2021).
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List of Figures List of Contributors Acknowledgments Introduction (Emily Hauser and Helena Taylor Exeter University UK) Creative Voices 1. Rewriting Greek Myth as a Woman (Emily Hauser Exeter University UK) 2. Classics and Craft (Madeline Miller Independent Scholar USA) 3. Return to the Labyrinth: Retelling the Stories of Mythical Women in Contemporary Poetry (Fiona Benson Independent Scholar UK) 4. Eurydice (Jennifer Saint King's College London UK) 5. Only Hope Remained (Rani Selvarajah Independent Scholar UK) 6. In the Bad Times (Cait Kremenstein Independent Scholar UK) 7. The Homeric Hymn to Dionysus (Roz Kaveney Independent Scholar UK) 8. Stage Manager's Notes (Gwyneth Lewis Independent Scholar UK) 9. Excerpt from Exit Kassandra (Carrie Etter University of Bristol UK) 10. a vespere nomen: An extract from patient zero (Kit Byford Independent Scholar UK) 11. The Real Sappho: Writing the Tenth Muse for the Contemporary Stage (Aimee Suzara San Francisco State University and College of San Mateo USA) 12. Suspended Animation: How the Fetish World Gave Life to Catullus and Callimachus (Isobel Williams Independent Scholar UK) 13. Transforming Voices: Ovid's Metamorphoses in Translation (Victoria Punch Exeter University UK) 14. Self-portrait in Egg (excerpt) (Jane Alison University of Virginia USA) 15. Declassifying Myself (Donna Zuckerberg Independent Scholar USA) Collaborations and Conversations 16. The Genesis and Creation of Dido/Elissa a New Play by Magdalena Zira (Magdalena Zira Independent Scholar Cyprus; Edith Hall Durham University UK) 17. On Not Turning to Stone: Unstaging Women's Sexual Trauma in an Adaptation of the Myth of Medusa (Wendy Haines Independent Scholar UK; Christine Plastow Open University UK) 18. The Music of Homer: Anne Carson's TROYJAM (Yopie Prins University of Michigan USA; Anne Carson Independent Scholar Canada) 19. Contemporary Women Writers: On Creativity in Recreating the Classics (Clare Pollard and Carrie Etter Independent Scholars UK) 20. Interview with Gwyneth Lewis by Polly Stoker (University of Winchester UK) 21. Interview with Selby Wynn Schwartz by Helena Taylor (University of Exeter UK) 22. Interview with Ronni Kern by Ruby Blondell (University of Washington USA) 23. Interview with Roz Kaveney by Jennifer Ingleheart (Durham University UK) 24. Interview with Nikita Gill by Emily Hauser (University of Exeter UK) Creativity for the Future and Inclusive Classics 25. Students Shaping Classics: Non-traditional Open Assessment Creativity Inclusivity and Shifting Disciplinary Boundaries (Helen Lovatt University of Nottingham UK) 26. Creative Teaching: Facing the Fear and Doing it Anyway (Sharon Marshall University of Exeter UK) 27. Imagining a World of Gods and Spirits Using Smells Bells and More: A Creative Writing Workshop (Caroline Lawrence) 28. Breaking the Form: Women Writers across Creative and Critical Practice (Tom Geue University of St. Andrews UK; Emily Hauser University of Exeter UK; Daisy Dunn Independent Scholar UK) 29. Epilogue: No Going Back (Emily Greenwood Harvard University USA) Notes Bibliography Index
List of Figures List of Contributors Acknowledgments Introduction (Emily Hauser and Helena Taylor Exeter University UK) Creative Voices 1. Rewriting Greek Myth as a Woman (Emily Hauser Exeter University UK) 2. Classics and Craft (Madeline Miller Independent Scholar USA) 3. Return to the Labyrinth: Retelling the Stories of Mythical Women in Contemporary Poetry (Fiona Benson Independent Scholar UK) 4. Eurydice (Jennifer Saint King's College London UK) 5. Only Hope Remained (Rani Selvarajah Independent Scholar UK) 6. In the Bad Times (Cait Kremenstein Independent Scholar UK) 7. The Homeric Hymn to Dionysus (Roz Kaveney Independent Scholar UK) 8. Stage Manager's Notes (Gwyneth Lewis Independent Scholar UK) 9. Excerpt from Exit Kassandra (Carrie Etter University of Bristol UK) 10. a vespere nomen: An extract from patient zero (Kit Byford Independent Scholar UK) 11. The Real Sappho: Writing the Tenth Muse for the Contemporary Stage (Aimee Suzara San Francisco State University and College of San Mateo USA) 12. Suspended Animation: How the Fetish World Gave Life to Catullus and Callimachus (Isobel Williams Independent Scholar UK) 13. Transforming Voices: Ovid's Metamorphoses in Translation (Victoria Punch Exeter University UK) 14. Self-portrait in Egg (excerpt) (Jane Alison University of Virginia USA) 15. Declassifying Myself (Donna Zuckerberg Independent Scholar USA) Collaborations and Conversations 16. The Genesis and Creation of Dido/Elissa a New Play by Magdalena Zira (Magdalena Zira Independent Scholar Cyprus; Edith Hall Durham University UK) 17. On Not Turning to Stone: Unstaging Women's Sexual Trauma in an Adaptation of the Myth of Medusa (Wendy Haines Independent Scholar UK; Christine Plastow Open University UK) 18. The Music of Homer: Anne Carson's TROYJAM (Yopie Prins University of Michigan USA; Anne Carson Independent Scholar Canada) 19. Contemporary Women Writers: On Creativity in Recreating the Classics (Clare Pollard and Carrie Etter Independent Scholars UK) 20. Interview with Gwyneth Lewis by Polly Stoker (University of Winchester UK) 21. Interview with Selby Wynn Schwartz by Helena Taylor (University of Exeter UK) 22. Interview with Ronni Kern by Ruby Blondell (University of Washington USA) 23. Interview with Roz Kaveney by Jennifer Ingleheart (Durham University UK) 24. Interview with Nikita Gill by Emily Hauser (University of Exeter UK) Creativity for the Future and Inclusive Classics 25. Students Shaping Classics: Non-traditional Open Assessment Creativity Inclusivity and Shifting Disciplinary Boundaries (Helen Lovatt University of Nottingham UK) 26. Creative Teaching: Facing the Fear and Doing it Anyway (Sharon Marshall University of Exeter UK) 27. Imagining a World of Gods and Spirits Using Smells Bells and More: A Creative Writing Workshop (Caroline Lawrence) 28. Breaking the Form: Women Writers across Creative and Critical Practice (Tom Geue University of St. Andrews UK; Emily Hauser University of Exeter UK; Daisy Dunn Independent Scholar UK) 29. Epilogue: No Going Back (Emily Greenwood Harvard University USA) Notes Bibliography Index
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