Binding: Hardcover
Description: This collection of essays examines the ways Ovid's diverse uvre has been translated rewritten adapted and responded to by a range of French and Francophone women from the Renaissance to the present. It aims to reveal lesser - known voices in Ovidian reception studies and to offer a wider historical perspective on the complex question of Ovid and gender. Ranging from Renaissance poetry to contemporary creative - criticism it charts an understudied strand of reception studies emphasizing how a longer view allows us to explore and challenge the notion of a female tradition of Ovidian reception. The range of genres analysed here - - poetry verse and prose translation theatre epistolary fiction autofiction autobiography film creative critique and novels - - also reflect the diversity of the Ovidian texts in reception from the Heroides to the Metamorphoses from the Amores to the Ars Amatoria from the Tristia to the Fasti. The study brings an array of critical approaches to bear on well - known authors such as George Sand Julia Kristeva and Marguerite Yourcenar as well as less - known figures from contemporary writer Linda L to the early modern Catherine and Madeline Des Roches exploring exile identity queerness displacement voice expectations of modesty the poetics of translation and the problems posed by Ovid's erotized violence to name just some of the volume's rich themes. The epilogue by translator and novelist Marie Cosnay points towards new eco - critical and creative directions in Ovidian scholarship and reception. Students and scholars of French Studies Classics Comparative Literature and Translation Studies will find much to interest them in this diverse collection of essays.
Title: Ovid In French Reception By Women From The Renaissance To The Present
Brand: Oxford University Press
Barcode: 9780192895387
Pages: 336 Pages, 1 Black-And-White Illustration
Publication Date: 11/3/2023
Series: Classical Presences
Category: Literary Studies: Classical, Early & Medieval