Ovid Metamorphoses David Raeburn Pdf Download

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in david raeburn's translation of Ovid's Metamorphoses, the poet begins, "Changes of shape, new forms, are the theme which my spirit impels me / now to recite." And he might as well be talking about the work of this year's Windham-Campbell Prize recipients as about the creation of the universe out of chaos. These artists are a group whose writing is bound by the theme of transformation.

While some of these remarkable writers work legibly within the categories for which they've been awarded the prize, others do not, either because they write fluently and easily in multiple genres or because their artistic practice is one of recombination and experimentation with the categories themselves, sometimes expanding these categories' meanings and sometimes obsolescing them.

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The answer can be found in the work of the writers featured in this year's special Windham-Campbell Prizes issue of The Yale Review. If these writers have something in common it is that they are too busy exploring big ideas or constructing fantastically imagined architectures to worry themselves about what label may be [End Page 5] attached to their names on a bookstore shelf, or what audiences might expect to see or hear or feel once they enter the theater. As in Ovid's poem, changing the shapes of convention gives vitality to art, and to life. [End Page 6]

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