Two thousand years of solitude : exile after Ovid / edited by Jennifer Ingleheart.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ingleheart, Jennifer, editor.

Series:

Classical presences.

Classical presences

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D--Exile.

Ovid.

Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D--Homes and haunts--Romania.

Romans--Romania.

Romans.

Exiles--Rome.

Exiles.

Exile (Punishment) in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (370 p.)

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Banished by the emperor Augustus in AD 8 from Rome to the far-off shores of Romania, the poet Ovid stands at the head of the Western tradition of exiled authors. In his Tristia (Sad Things) and Epistulae ex Ponto (Letters from the Black Sea), Ovid records his unhappy experience of political, cultural, and linguistic displacement from his homeland. Two Thousand Years of Solitude: Exile After Ovid is an interdisciplinary study of the impact of Ovid's banishment upon later Western literature, exploring responses to Ovid's portrait of his life in exile. For a huge variety of writers throughout the

Contents:

Cover; Contents; List of Abbreviations; Contributors; Introduction: Two Thousand Years of Responses to Ovid's Exile; I. OVIDIAN EXILE AND THE POETS; 1. Life and Poetry: Differences and Resemblances between Ovid and Dante; 2. Exiled Rome and August Pope: Petrarch's Letters to Benedict XII; 3. Black-Sea Latin, Du Bellay, and the Barbarian Turn: Tristia, Regrets, Translations; 4. Lætus & exilii conditione fruor: Milton's Ovidian 'Exile'; 5. Elizabethan Exile after Ovid: Thomas Churchyard's Tristia (1572); 6. 'I shall be thy devoted foe': The Exile of the Ovid of the Ibis in English Reception

7. Ovid and Virgil at the North Pole: Marvell's 'A Letter to Dr Ingelo'8. The Chevalier de Boufflers in Senegal: An Eighteenth-Century Ovid?; 9. Ovid on the Channel Islands: The Exile of Victor Hugo; 10. In the Step(pe)s of Genius: Pushkin's Ovidian Exile; 11. Ovid and the Modern Poetics of Exile; 12. Children of the Island: Ovid, Poesis, and Loss in the Poetry of Eavan Boland and Derek Mahon; II. OVIDIAN EXILE IN MODERN PROSE; 13. The Mystery of Ovid's Exile: Ovid and the Roman Detectives; 14. Jane Alison, The Love-Artist: Love in Exile or Exile in Love?; 15. Ovid's Last Wor(l)d

16. The Myth is Out There: Reality and Fiction at Tomis (David Malouf 's An Imaginary Life)17. Tomis Writes Back: Politics of Peripheral Identity in David Malouf 's and Vintila Horia's Re-narrations of Ovidian Exile; References; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z

Notes:

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

0-19-161913-2

OCLC:

763156937