Dante's Commedia and the classical canon: metamorphosis as divine truth

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Original language	English
Publication status	Published - Oct 2008
Event	Refashioning myth: poetic transformations and metamorphoses - University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia Duration: 2 Oct 2008 → 3 Oct 2008

Conference	Refashioning myth
Country/Territory	Australia
City	Melbourne
Period	2/10/08 → 3/10/08
Other	Ancient poetic texts tell us that the deeds of gods and heroes have long been a central concern of the poet. Recent texts, such as those by Simon Armitage and Don Paterson, would suggest that this tenet holds true for the contemporary poet as much as it did for the ancients. The recent series of mythic rewritings which have appeared under the auspices of The Myths project exemplify how mythic poetry can be self-consciously refashioned for contemporary culture. But how, and why, do age-old mythologies still hold relevance in the twenty-first century? This conference encourages poets and scholars to reassess the role of myth in poetry, to examine and produce poetic engagements with myth.

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