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Classical Reception and the Rewriting Turn in Contemporary Women’s Fiction
Classical Reception and the Rewriting Turn in Contemporary Women’s Fiction raccoglie diverse contributi accademiche nel campo degli studi sulla ricezione classica, concentrandosi in particolare sulla rivitalizzazione e la rielaborazione delle narrazioni mitologiche nella fiction contemporanea di scrittrici anglofone, tra cui Margaret Atwood, Pat Barker, Victoria Grossack e Alice Underwood, Natalie Haynes, Emily Hauser, Rosie Hewlett e Madeline Miller. Queste autrici interagiscono con i miti antichi non come narrazioni fisse o fonti di ispirazione, ma come testi dinamici che riflettono e plasmano le preoccupazioni in evoluzione del pensiero femminista moderno. Rielaborando figure come Clite...
Ovid's Presence in Contemporary Women's Writing
This innovative study analyses the presence of Ovid in contemporary women's writing through a series of insightful case studies of prominent female authors, from Ali Smith, Marina Warner, and Marie Darrieussecq, to Alice Oswald, Saviana Stãnescu, and Yoko Tawada. Using Ovid in their engagements with a wide range of issues besetting our twenty-first century world - homelessness, refugees, the financial crisis, internet porn, anorexia, body image - these writers echo the poet's preoccupation in his own work with fleeting fame, shape-shifting, and the dangers of immediate gratification, and make evident that these concerns are not only quintessentially modern, but also peculiarly Ovidian. Movi...
The Lives of Ovid in Seventeenth-Century French Culture
Seventeenth-century France saw one of the most significant 'culture wars' Europe has ever known. Culminating in the Quarrel of the Ancients and Moderns, this was a confrontational, transitional time for the reception of the classics. Helena Taylor explores responses to the life of the ancient Roman poet, Ovid, within this charged atmosphere. To date, criticism has focused on the reception of Ovid's enormously influential work in this period, but little attention has been paid to Ovid's lives and their uses. Through close analysis of a diverse corpus, which includes prefatory Lives, novels, plays, biographical dictionaries, poetry, and memoirs, this study investigates how the figure of Ovid w...
Cultural Memory and Identity in Ancient Societies
In recent years memory has become a central concept in historical studies, following the definition of the term 'Cultural Memory' by the Egyptologist Jan Assmann in 1994. Thinking about memory, as both an individual and a social phenomenon, has led to a new way of conceptualizing history and has drawn historians into debate with scholars in other disciplines such as literary studies, cultural theory and philosophy. The aim of this volume is to explore memory and identity in ancient societies. 'We are what we remember' is the striking thesis of the Nobel laureate Eric R Kandel, and this holds equally true for ancient societies as modern ones. How did the societies of Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece and Rome remember and commemorate the past? How were relationships to the past, both individual and collective, articulated? Exploring the balance between memory as survival and memory as reconstruction, and between memory and historically recorded fact, this volume unearths the way ancient societies formed their cultural identity.
Ovid in French
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 ficti...
Advice and Its Rhetoric in Greece and Rome
"Substantially, the essays in this collection formed part of the 2000 meeting of the Midlands Classics Colloquium, held ... in Nottingham."--Introduction.
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