Ovid in the Middle Ages

Ovid in the Middle Ages

Author: James G. Clark

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2011-07-28

Total Pages: 385

ISBN-13: 1107002052

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This book explores the extraordinary influence of Ovid upon the culture - learned, literary, artistic and popular - of medieval Europe.


Reading Ovid in Medieval Wales

Reading Ovid in Medieval Wales

Author: Paul Russell

Publisher:

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 291

ISBN-13: 9780814213223

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Reading Ovid in Medieval Wales provides the first complete edition and discussion of the earliest surviving fragment of Ovid's Ars amatoria, or The Art of Love, glossed mainly in Latin but also in Old Welsh. This study discusses the significance of the manuscript for classical studies and how it was absorbed into the classical Ovidian tradition.


Ovid Renewed

Ovid Renewed

Author: Charles Martindale

Publisher: CUP Archive

Published: 1990-07-27

Total Pages: 340

ISBN-13: 9780521397452

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This book is a study of Ovid and his poetry as a cultural phenomenon, conceived in the belief that such a study of tradition also casts fresh light on Ovid himself. Its main concern is with exploring the influence of Ovid on literature, especially English literature, but it also takes a wider perspective, including, for example, the visual arts. The book takes the form of a series of studies by specialists in their fields, including a number of scholars of international renown. The essays cover the period from the twelfth century, when there was an upsurge of interest in Ovid, through to the decline in his fortunes in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. They are critical and comparative in approach and collectively give a detailed sense of Ovid's importance in Western culture. Topics covered include Ovid's influence on Chaucer, Spenser, Shakespeare and his contemporaries, Dryden, T. S. Eliot, the myths of Daedalus and Icarus and Pygmalion, and the influence of Ovid's poetry on art.


Appendix Ovidiana

Appendix Ovidiana

Author: Ovid

Publisher:

Published: 2020

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780674238381

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The pseudonymous Appendix Ovidiana--which includes nature, erotic, and religious poetry--reflects different understandings of an admired Classical poet and expands his legacy through the Middle Ages. This is the first comprehensive collection and English translation of these medieval Latin verses ascribed to Ovid.


A Handbook to the Reception of Ovid

A Handbook to the Reception of Ovid

Author: John F. Miller

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2014-10-31

Total Pages: 556

ISBN-13: 1118876180

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A Handbook to the Reception of Ovid presents more than 30 original essays written by leading scholars revealing the rich diversity of critical engagement with Ovid’s poetry that spans the Western tradition from antiquity to the present day. Offers innovative perspectives on Ovid’s poetry and its reception from antiquity to the present day Features contributions from more than 30 leading scholars in the Humanities. Introduces familiar and unfamiliar figures in the history of Ovidian reception. Demonstrates the enduring and transformative power of Ovid’s poetry into modern times.


Metamorphosis

Metamorphosis

Author: Alison Keith

Publisher: Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 358

ISBN-13: 9780772720351

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The Ethical Poetic of the Later Middle Ages

The Ethical Poetic of the Later Middle Ages

Author: Judson Boyce Allen

Publisher: University of Toronto Press

Published: 1982-12-15

Total Pages: 530

ISBN-13: 1442632992

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This study of the definition of literature in the late medieval period is based on manuals of writing and on literary commentary and glosses. It defines a method of reading which may now profitably explain medieval texts, and identifies new primary medieval evidence which may ground and guide new reading. Allen chooses texts whose commentary tradition provides the greatest opportunity for completeness. The most important of these is Ovid’s Metamorphoses. Medieval readings of Ovid bring into focus a number of major literary questions—the problems of fable and fiction, of unity imposed by miscellany poetry, of allegorical commentary, and of Christian use of pagan culture—all in connection with text which furnished medieval authors with more stories than any other single source except possibly the Bible. Allen also studies commentaries on the Consolation of Philosophy of Boethius, the Thebaid of Statius, the De nuptiis of Martianus Capella, the medieval Christian hymn-book, and the Poetria nova of Geoffrey of Vinsauf. Together these texts represent the range of medieval literature—a literature which, Allen concludes, was taken as direct ethical discourse, logically conducted and artfully organized within a system of language that also assimilated the natural world and sought to absorb its audience.


Ovid (Routledge Revivals)

Ovid (Routledge Revivals)

Author: J. W. Binns

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-08-01

Total Pages: 261

ISBN-13: 1317808525

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Ovid, Rome’s most cynical and worldly love poet, has not until recently been highly regarded among Latin poets. Now, however, his reputation is growing, and this volume is an important contribution to the re-establishment of Ovid’s claims to critical attention. This collection of essays ranges over a wide variety of themes and works: Ovid’s development of the Elegiac tradition handed down to him from Propertius, Catullus and Tibullus; the often disparaged and neglected Heroides; the poetry of Ovid’s miserable exile by the Black Sea; the poetic diction of the Metamorphoses, Ovid’s lengthy mythological epic which codified classical myth and legend, and has strong claims to be considered, with the exception of Virgil’s Aeneid, Rome’s greatest epic poem; humour and the blending of the didactic and elegiac traditions in the Ars Amatoria and Remedia Amoris. Finally, Ovid’s incomparable influence in the Middle Ages and sixteenth century is examined.


Ovid in the Age of Cervantes

Ovid in the Age of Cervantes

Author: Frederick A. De Armas

Publisher: University of Toronto Press

Published: 2010-01-01

Total Pages: 321

ISBN-13: 1442641177

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The Roman poet Ovid, author of the famous Metamorphoses, is widely considered one of the canonical poets of Latin antiquity. Vastly popular in Europe during the Renaissance and Early Modern periods, Ovid's writings influenced the literature, art, and culture in Spain's Golden Age. The book begins with examinations of the translation and utilization of Ovid's texts from the Middle Ages to the Age of Cervantes. The work includes a section devoted to the influence of Ovid on Cervantes, arguing that Don Quixote is a deeply Ovidian text, drawing upon many classical myths and themes. The contributors then turn to specific myths in Ovid as they were absorbed and transformed by different writers, including that of Echo and Narcissus in Garcilaso de la Vega and Hermaphroditus in Covarrubias and Moya. The final section of the book centers on questions of poetic fame and self-fashioning. Ovid in the Age of Cervantes is an important and comprehensive re-evaluation of Ovid's impact on Renaissance and Early Modern Spain.


Desiring Discourse

Desiring Discourse

Author: James J. Paxson

Publisher: Susquehanna University Press

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 252

ISBN-13: 9781575910130

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These essays examine the central role played by Ovid in medieval amatory literature. In so doing, they address the theoretical problems of the entrenched "aesthetics of reception" long tied to the Ovidian Middle Ages, while they also seek at times to overturn many of the prior critical perceptions associated with Ovidian suasive discourse - in particular the unproblematized assertion of male will and the erasure of female voice. Responding to the great fund of critical work done on amatory literature in the Middle Ages - a literature thus far organized into an array of categories such as the rhetorical institution of persuasion and seduction, the Ovidian heritage, aetas ovidiana, the language of amatory trial, the genealogy of the romance, and the convention of courtly love - this volume seeks to provide a comprehensive look at the rhetorical and social conditions of desire.