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1 online resource (xi, 274 pages) : illustrations |
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Text and context |
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Text and context (Columbus, Ohio)
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Responding to Ovid's Heroides -- Uses of the Heroides in education -- Editions and commentaries -- The Heroides in translation -- Replying to the Heroides |
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"Ovid's Heroides, a collection consisting mainly of poetic love letters sent by mythological heroines to their absent lovers, held a particular fascination for Renaissance readers. To understand their responses to these letters, we must ask exactly how and in what contexts those readers first encountered them: were they read in Latin or in the vernacular; as source texts for the learning of grammar and history or as love poetry; as epistolary and rhetorical models or as moral examples?" "Renaissance Postscripts: Responding to Ovid: Heroides in Sixteenth-Century France by Paul White offers an account of the wide variety of responses to the Heroides within the realm of humanist education, in the works of both Latin commentators and French translators, and as an example of a particular mode of imitation. The author examines how humanists shaped the discourse of Ovid's heroines and heroes to pedagogical ends and analyzes even the woodcuts that illustrated various editions. This study traces comparative readings of French translations through a period noted for important shifts in attitudes to the text and to poetic translation in general and offers an important history of the "reply epistle"--A mode of imitation attempted in both Latin and the vernacular. Renaissance Postscripts shows that while the Heroides was a versatile text that could serve a wide range of pedagogical and literary purposes, it was also a text that resisted the attempts of its interpreters to have the final word."--Jacket |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-263) and indexes |
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Print version record |
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Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D. Heroides.
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Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D. -- Appreciation -- France
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Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D. -- Translating into French
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Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D. -- Translating into French
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Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D. -- Appreciation -- France
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Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D. Heroides
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Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D. fast |
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Ovidius Naso, Publius. Heroides. swd |
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Heroides (Ovid) fast |
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Epistolary poetry, Latin -- History and criticism
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- General.
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Art appreciation
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Epistolary poetry, Latin
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Rezeption
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France
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Frankreich
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2008036182 |
| ISBN |
9780814271674 |
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0814271677 |
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