This collection of essays examines the ways Ovid's diverse œuvre
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 Lê 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.
General
| Imprint: |
Oxford UniversityPress
|
| Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
| Series: |
Classical Presences |
| Release date: |
August 2023 |
| Editors: |
Helena Taylor
• Fiona Cox
|
| Dimensions: |
234 x 153mm (L x W) |
| Pages: |
336 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-0-19-289538-7 |
| Categories: |
Books
|
| LSN: |
0-19-289538-9 |
| Barcode: |
9780192895387 |
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