Ovid's Medieval Metamorphoses I: Shaping Pygmalion, Reflecting Narcissus
Sponsoring Organization(s)
Special Session
Organizer Name
Lucas Wood
Organizer Affiliation
Indiana Univ.-Bloomington
Presider Name
Peggy McCracken
Presider Affiliation
Univ. of Michigan-Ann Arbor
Paper Title 1
Narcisus's Singular Desires
Presenter 1 Name
Lucas Wood
Paper Title 2
Pygmalion’s Phantasmic Craft in Machaut's Fonteinne amoureuse
Presenter 2 Name
Sarah Powrie
Presenter 2 Affiliation
St. Thomas More College
Paper Title 3
Narcissus and Pygmalion: Christine de Pizan's Transformations of Ovid in L'Epistre Othea
Presenter 3 Name
Kevin Brownlee
Presenter 3 Affiliation
Univ. of Pennsylvania
Start Date
11-5-2017 1:30 PM
Session Location
Fetzer 2030
Description
From the 12th through the 15th centuries, the Augustan poet Ovid's commanding presence in French and Anglo-Norman vernacular literature took complex and varied forms that recent criticism has interpreted in increasingly compelling ways. Moving beyond the question of “influence”, this pair of sessions on “Ovid’s Medieval Metamorphoses” will approach the medieval French reception of Ovid's Latin poetry as a case study in the techniques and stakes of cultural translation. By tracing the development and transmission of innovative Ovidianisms--that is, the evolution of markedly Ovidian but distinctively medieval discourses, themes and motifs--over the course of the Middle Ages, the sessions will also uncover the ways in which medieval poets use the Ovidian tradition to wrestle with (and transform) generic paradigms and literary ideologies and to construct personal and textual authority.
Lucas Wood
Ovid's Medieval Metamorphoses I: Shaping Pygmalion, Reflecting Narcissus
Fetzer 2030
From the 12th through the 15th centuries, the Augustan poet Ovid's commanding presence in French and Anglo-Norman vernacular literature took complex and varied forms that recent criticism has interpreted in increasingly compelling ways. Moving beyond the question of “influence”, this pair of sessions on “Ovid’s Medieval Metamorphoses” will approach the medieval French reception of Ovid's Latin poetry as a case study in the techniques and stakes of cultural translation. By tracing the development and transmission of innovative Ovidianisms--that is, the evolution of markedly Ovidian but distinctively medieval discourses, themes and motifs--over the course of the Middle Ages, the sessions will also uncover the ways in which medieval poets use the Ovidian tradition to wrestle with (and transform) generic paradigms and literary ideologies and to construct personal and textual authority.
Lucas Wood