{"title":"CMCC: Literary Ladder Rung 2","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eThe Charlotte Mason Cottage Curriculum (CMCC) offers a carefully curated feast of living books and beautiful ideas for students in grade K-12. Following Charlotte Mason's philosophy, CMCC spreads a generous feast before our children and trust them to partake freely, forming living relationships with God, humanity and the world around them. Find out more on their facebook page or purchase the curriculum \u003ca rel=\"noopener\" title=\"here\" href=\"http:\/\/www.humbleheartpress.com\/publisherpartner\/p\/cottagecurriculum-39flak\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ehere\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"till-we-have-faces-a-myth-retold-by-c-s-lewis","title":"Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold by C.S. 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In this, his final--and most mature and masterful--novel, Lewis reminds us of our own fallibility and the role of a higher power in our lives.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJacket Description\/Back:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"text\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eFascinated by the myth of Cupid and Psyche throughout his life, C. S. Lewis wrote this, his last novel,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003eto retell their story from the perspective of Psyche's sister, Orual: \"I saw well why the gods do not speak to us openly, nor let us answer . . . Why should they hear the babble that we think we mean? 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He was a Fellow and Tutor in English Literature at Oxford University until 1954, when he was unanimously elected to the Chair of Medieval and Renaissance Literature at Cambridge University, a position he held until his retirement. He wrote more than thirty books, allowing him to reach a vast audience, and his works continue to attract thousands of new readers every year. His most distinguished and popular accomplishments include \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eOut of the Silent Planet\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Great Divorce\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Screwtape Letters\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, and the universally acknowledged classics The Chronicles of Narnia. 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Such formal elements of the translation ultimately represent McCarter's interpretation of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eMetamorphoses\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e and the art of translation itself--that humble human craft that has the capacity to stand against and despite the will of gods, power, and time. McCarter has produced her own masterpiece that 'Jove's wrath cannot \/ destroy, nor flame, nor steel, nor gnawing time.' 'My name, ' she writes, 'can't be erased.'\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e--Anna Deeny Morales, 2023 American Poets Prize citation for The Academy of American Poets\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"The best translation of a work of ancient literature that I read this year was Stephanie McCarter's marvellous new translation of Ovid's \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eMetamorphoses\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, in fresh, readable, vivid iambic pentameter. McCarter captures Ovid's wit and cleverness, making us laugh at the escapades of abusive, lust-crazed, arrogant gods and hapless, also lust-crazed and arrogant mortals. But she also brilliantly evokes Ovid's more serious sides, including his attentiveness to power and the magical vivacity of the natural world. Her wonderful handling of the metrical poetic form is a fitting match for Ovid's artful, fluent Latin verse.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e--Emily Wilson,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe New Statesman\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"McCarter confronts the tricky issues associated with both the poet and his epic not only in her forthright introduction but in the translation itself, where, like an art restorer removing decades of browned varnish from an Old Master, she strips away a number of inaccuracies and embellishments that have accreted in translations over the decades and centuries, obscuring the sense of certain passages, particularly those portraying women and sexual violence... McCarter's translation reproduces Ovid's speed and clarity. Even better, she is alert to many of the sparkling verbal effects for which the poet was famous in his own time... If you didn't know she was writing about the concerns of someone who died twenty centuries ago, you'd think her subject was still alive.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e--Daniel Mendelsohn,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"McCarter adroitly captures Ovid's glittering darkness. There is horror here but there is also so much wonder and delight, all conveyed in nimble, fresh language.\" \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e--Kamila Shamsie, author of\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eHome Fire\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The Metamorphoses\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003ehas it all: sex, death, love, violence, gods, mortals, monsters, nymphs, all the great forces, human and natural. With this vital new translation, Stephanie McCarter has not only updated Ovid's epic of transformation for the modern ear and era --- she's done something far more powerful. She's paid rigorous attention to the language of the original and brought to us its ferocity, its sensuality, its beauty, its wit, showing us how we are changed, by time, by violence, by love, by stories, and especially by power. Here is Ovid, in McCarter's masterful hands, refreshed, renewed, and pulsing with life.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e--Nina MacLaughlin, author of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eWake, Siren: Ovid Resung\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003eStephanie McCarter's gorgeous verse translation of the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eMetamorphoses\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is ground-breaking not just in its refreshingly accessible approach to Ovid's syntax and formal devices but for how she reframes the controversial subjects that have made Ovid, and Ovidian scholarship, so fraught for contemporary readers. McCarter's translation understands that the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eMetamorphoses\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is a complex study of power and desire, and the dehumanizing ways that power asserts itself through and on a variety of bodies. McCarter's deft, musical, and forthright translation returns much needed nuance to Ovid's tropes of violence and change, demonstrating to a new generation of readers how our identities are always in flux, while reminding us all of the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eMetamorphoses\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e' enduring relevance.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e--Paisley Rekdal, author of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eNightingale\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"A graceful and fluid and deeply meaningful translation. Compared to the other translations of the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eMetamorphoses\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003eon which I've relied in the past, it's as though this is of an entirely different book. The reader follows the lines with genuine emotion. And so do worlds open up--\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e--\u003c\/i\u003eAlexander Nemerov, Carl and Marilynn Thoma Provostial Professor in the Arts and Humanities, Stanford University\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"Stephanie McCarter's translation offers an attractive alternative to the finest versions to appear in recent decades, while the abundance of her introductory and explanatory material gives her work a clear advantage over those predecessors. 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