TY  - GEN
TY  - GEN
T1  - The Lives of Ovid in seventeenth-century French culture
T2  - Oxford modern languages and literature monographs
A1  - Taylor, Helena, 1985- kirjoittaja
LA  - eng
PP  - Oxford
PB  - Oxford University Press
YR  - 2017
UL  - https://kansalliskirjasto.finna.fi/Record/fikka.3067703
AB  - 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 was used to debate literary taste and modernity and to reflect on translation practice. It shows how the narrative of Ovid's life was deployed to explore the politics and poetics of exile writing; and to question the relationship between fiction and history.
SN  - 0198796773 sidottu
SN  - 9780198796770 sidottu
KW  - Ovid, : 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D. : Appreciation : France : 17th century.
KW  - Ovidius Naso, Publius.
KW  - Latin poetry : Appreciation : France : History : 17th century.
ER  -