Releasing Daphne
Alice Fulton, Ovid, Trees
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12920523 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jacquelyn Ardam (University of California, Los Angeles, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 8 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 89-107 |
| Publication date | 2013-06-12 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Contemporary Women s Writing (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1754-1476 • E-ISSN: 1754-1484 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1093/cww/vpt003 |
| OpenAlex | W2034553916 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 4 |
In “Give: A Sequence Reimagining Daphne & Apollo,” contemporary American poet Alice Fulton reconfigures Ovid’s myth into a 40-page sequence of poems that posits Daphne, Apollo, and their supporting cast as players in the mid-twentieth-century American music industry. This essay looks at “Give” through the prism of Adrienne Rich’s “re-vision,” reading the poem alongside Ovid’s myth and its critical history to argue that Fulton is particularly invested in creating a female aesthetic experience of figuring loss that provides an alternative to the male experience that seeks to overcome loss through substitution of a love object with the aesthetic. It analyzes Fulton’s harnessing (in both her form and content) of the aesthetic category of the grotesque to figure Daphne’s loss of her bodily self and to explore the problems of gendered-female (self-) representation
Aesthetics · Alice (programming language · Apollo · Art · Art history · Linguistics · Literature · Mythology · Poetry · Reading (process · Representation (politics · Visual arts · Folklore, Mythology, and Literature Studies · Musicology and Musical Analysis · Poetry Analysis and Criticism · Law · Philosophy
| Citations per year | 0.25 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2022 - 2022 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |