Ovid and the Cultural Politics of Translation in Early Modern England
Title | Ovid and the Cultural Politics of Translation in Early Modern England PDF eBook |
Author | Liz Oakley-Brown |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 403 |
Release | 2017-03-02 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1351913034 |
In Ovid and the Cultural Politics of Early Modern England, Liz Oakley-Brown considers English versions of the Metamorphoses - a poem concerned with translation and transformation on a multiplicity of levels - as important sites of social and historical difference from the fifteenth to the early eighteenth centuries. Through the exploration of a range of canonical and marginal texts, from Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus to women's embroideries of Ovidian myths, Oakley-Brown argues that translation is central to the construction of national and gendered identities.
Shakespeare and the Translation of Identity in Early Modern England
Title | Shakespeare and the Translation of Identity in Early Modern England PDF eBook |
Author | Liz Oakley-Brown |
Publisher | A&C Black |
Pages | 197 |
Release | 2011-04-14 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1441179437 |
Featuring contributions by established and upcoming scholars, Shakespeare and the Translation of Identity in Early Modern England explores the ways in which Shakespearean texts engage in the social and cultural politics of sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century translation practices. Framed by the editor's introduction and an Afterword by Ton Hoenselaars, the authors in this collection offer new perspectives on translation and the fashioning of religious, national and gendered identities in A Midsummer Night's Dream, Hamlet, Macbeth, Coriolanus, and The Tempest.
The Early Modern Medea
Title | The Early Modern Medea PDF eBook |
Author | K. Heavey |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 244 |
Release | 2015-02-24 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1137466243 |
This is the first book-length study of early modern English approaches to Medea, the classical witch and infanticide who exercised a powerful sway over literary and cultural imagination in the period 1558-1688. It encompasses poetry, prose and drama, and translation, tragedy, comedy and political writing.
Literature and Popular Culture in Early Modern England
Title | Literature and Popular Culture in Early Modern England PDF eBook |
Author | Matthew Dimmock |
Publisher | Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. |
Pages | 246 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780754665809 |
Now in its third edition, Peter Burke's 1978 book Popular Culture in Early Modern Europe has for thirty years set the benchmark for cultural historians with its wide ranging and imaginative exploration of early modern European popular culture. In order to celebrate this achievement, and to explore the ways in which perceptions of popular culture have changed in the intervening years a group of leading scholars are brought together in this new volume to examine Burke's thesis in relation to England. Adopting an appropriately interdisciplinary approach, the collection offers an unprecedented survey of the field of popular culture in early modern England as it currently stands, bringing together scholars at the forefront of developments in an expanding area. Concluded by an Afterword by Peter Burke, the volume provides a vivid sense of the range and significance of early modern popular culture and the difficulties involved in defining and studying it.
Ovidian Myth and Sexual Deviance in Early Modern English Literature
Title | Ovidian Myth and Sexual Deviance in Early Modern English Literature PDF eBook |
Author | S. Carter |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 220 |
Release | 2016-02-25 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0230306071 |
Carter explores early modern culture's reception of Ovid through the manipulation of Ovidian myth by Shakespeare, Middleton, Heywood, Marlowe and Marston. With a focus on sexual violence, homosexuality, incest and idolatry, Carter analyses how depictions of mythology represent radical ideas concerning gender and sexuality.
Englishing Ovid
Title | Englishing Ovid PDF eBook |
Author | Meaghan Jane Brown |
Publisher | |
Pages | 198 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | Latin language |
ISBN |
Violent Liminalities in Early Modern Culture
Title | Violent Liminalities in Early Modern Culture PDF eBook |
Author | Kaye McLelland |
Publisher | Taylor & Francis |
Pages | 217 |
Release | 2022-11-25 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1000783820 |
Violent liminalities in Early Modern Culture is a methodologically innovative book combining the twin disciplines of queer theory and disability studies. It investigates the violence feared from, and directed at, inhabitants of the ‘betwixt and between’ spaces of early modern literature and culture, through a focus on the perpetuated metamorphic states of Shakespeare’s and Spenser’s liminal figures including Lavinia, Puck, and Britomart. With chapters on gender, sexuality, adolescence, madness, and physical disability, Kaye McLelland applies a bi-theoretical lens to interrogate the ways in which being simultaneously ‘neither’ and ‘both’ brings to bear the non-normative disruption identified by queer theory in ways that use binary systems against themselves. For many of Spenser’s and Shakespeare’s characters, the ‘in-between’ state, whether ritually or otherwise induced, transforms the instantaneous binary threshold of the limen into a permanent ‘habitation’. This created space is one of great power that is feared and violently countered by those who would shut it down. Set against the literary history of Spenser’s and Shakespeare’s Ovidianism and festivity, and the historical context of the post-Reformation transformation from a tertiary to a binary model of the afterlife, this volume identifies a persistent positioning of liminal literary figures in proximity to the liminality of the dead and dying, whilst simultaneously tracing the positive ways in which these inhabitants of the powerful ‘betwixt and between’ are depicted.