Ovid in French: Reception by Women from the Renaissance to the Present
Helena Taylor, "Ovid in French: Reception by Women from the Renaissance to the Present "
English | ISBN: 0192895389 | 2023 | 336 pages | EPUB, PDF | 778 KB + 4 MB
English | ISBN: 0192895389 | 2023 | 336 pages | EPUB, PDF | 778 KB + 4 MB
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
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