Ovid and the Cultural Politics of Translation in Early Modern England
Author | : Liz Oakley-Brown |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 403 |
Release | : 2017-03-02 |
ISBN-13 | : 9781351913034 |
ISBN-10 | : 1351913034 |
Rating | : 4/5 (34 Downloads) |
Download or read book Ovid and the Cultural Politics of Translation in Early Modern England written by Liz Oakley-Brown and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-03-02 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.