Wake, siren : Ovid resung

Seductresses and she-monsters, nymphs and demigoddesses, populate Ovid's famous Metamorphoses. But what happens when the chase is tracked in the voice of the quarry? When the maiden coolly returns the seducer's gaze? When monstrous transfigurations come sung by those transformed? Wake, Siren lays bare the violence lurking in the heart of Ovid's narratives and breaks down these myths that helped build and perpetuate a limited, limiting portrayal of women across centuries of art and literature. Drawing on the rhythms of epic poetry and alt rock, everyday speech and folk song, fireside whisperings and therapy sessions, Nina MacLaughlin's Wake, Siren recovers what is lost when the stories of women are told and translated by men, breathing new life into these fraught, beloved tales.

Contents:

Daphne -- Arachne -- Callisto -- Agave -- Tiresias -- Syrinx -- Echo -- Myrrha -- Io -- Scylla -- Sibyl -- Semele -- Medusa -- Caenis -- Arethusa -- The heliades -- Alcmena -- Procne and Philomela -- Baucis -- Ivory girl -- Dryope -- Canens -- Alcyone -- Thetis -- Salmacis and Hermaphroditus -- Egeria -- Nyctimene -- Leucothoe -- Atalanta -- Iphis -- Hecuba -- Pomona -- Sirens -- Eurydice.

Personal Subject:

Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D.-Characters-Women-Fiction.

Conference Subject:

Lambda Literary Awards (2020) -- Nominee.

Subject Term:

Characters and characteristics in literature -- Fiction.

Metamorphosis -- Mythology -- Poetry -- Fiction.

Mythology, Classical -- Poetry -- Fiction.

Mythology, Greek -- Fiction.

Women -- Fiction.

Genre:

Mythological fiction.