Two Thousand Years of Solitude: Exile After Ovid is an interdisciplinary study of the impact of Ovid's banishment upon later Western literature and explores the responses to Ovid's portrait of his life in exile. Two millennia after his banishment, Ovid is still a potent symbol of the punished author, suffering in exile. 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 world in the two millennia after his exile, Ovid has performed the rle of archetypal exile, allowing them to articulate a range of experiences of disgrace, dislocation, and alienation; and to explore exile from a number ofperspectives, including both the personal and the fictional. INDICE: LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS Introduction: Two Thousand Years of Responses to Ovid's Exile I. OVIDIAN EXILE AND THE POETS Life and Poetry: Differences and Resemblances between Ovid and Dante Exiled Rome and august Pope: Petrarch s Letters to Benedict XII Black-Sea Latin, Du Bellay, and the barbarian turn: Tristia, Regrets, Translations Ltus & exilii conditione fruor: Milton s Ovidian Exile Elizabethan Exile After Ovid: Thomas Churchyard s Tristia (1572) 'I shall be thy devoted foe': the exile of the Ovid of the Ibis in English reception Ovid and Virgil at the North Pole: Marvell s A Letter to Dr Ingelo TheChevalier de Boufflers in Senegal: An Eighteenth Century Ovida Ovid on the Channel Islands: The Exile of Victor Hugo In the Step(pe)s of Genius: Pushkin s Ovidian Exile Ovid and The Modern Poetics of Exile Children of the Island: Ovid, Poesis, and Loss in the Poetry of Eavan Boland and Derek Mahon II. OVIDIAN EXILE IN MODERN PROSE The mystery of Ovid s exile: Ovid and the Roman detectives Jane Alison, The Love-Artist: Love in Exile or Exile in Lovea Ovid s Last Wor(l)d The Myth is Out There: Reality and Fiction at Tomis (David Malouf s An Imaginary Life) Tomis Writes Back: Politics of Peripheral Identity in David Malouf s and Vintila Horia s Re-Narrations of Ovidian Exile BIBLIOGRAPHY GENERALINDEX INDEX LOCORUM
- ISBN: 978-0-19-960384-8
- Editorial: Oxford University
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 384
- Fecha Publicación: 20/10/2011
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés