E-Books →Ovid in French Reception by Women from the Renaissance to the Present

Free Download 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
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