Title Ovid in French : reception by women from the Renaissance to the Present / Edited by Helena Taylor and Fiona Cox

Published Oxford : Oxford University Press, Incorporated, [2023] ©2023

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Description 1 online resource (274 pages) Series Classical Presences Series Classical presences. Summary Ovid in French examines the ways Ovid's diverse oeuvre has been translated, rewritten, adapted, and responded to by French and Francophone women. The chapters bring an array of critical approaches to bear on a range of authors from the Renaissance to the present This collection of essays examines the ways Ovid's diverse oeuvre 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 both 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 Madeleine 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 provoke and interest them in this collection of essays Notes Description based upon print version of record Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Subject Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D. -- Appreciation -- France Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D. -- Appreciation -- French-speaking countries SUBJECT Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D. fast Subject Latin poetry -- Appreciation -- France -- History Latin poetry -- Appreciation -- French-speaking countries -- History Women and literature -- France -- History Women and literature -- French-speaking countries -- History Criticism. Art appreciation Latin poetry -- Appreciation Women and literature Literature: history & criticism. Literature. France French-speaking countries Genre/Form History Form Electronic book Author Taylor, Helena, 1985- editor. Cox, Fiona, editor. ISBN 9780192648686 0192648683 9780191916205 019191620X

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