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Record Nr.

UNISA996237749803316

Autore

McKinley Kathryn L.

Titolo

Reading the Ovidian heroine : "Metamorphoses" commentaries 1100-1618 / / by Kathryn L. McKinley

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden, The Netherlands ; ; Boston ; ; Köln : , : Brill, , [2001]

©2001

ISBN

90-04-35101-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xxviii, 187 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum ; ; 220

Disciplina

873.01

Soggetti

Fables, Latin - History and criticism

Mythology, Classical, in literature

Women and literature - Rome

Metamorphosis in literature

Heroines in literature

Women in literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages  [179]-183) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preliminary Material / Kathryn L. Mckinley -- THE OVIDIAN HEROINE IN CONTEXT: CLASSICAL REPRESENTATIONS OF FEMININE DISCOURSE / Kathryn L. Mckinley -- OVID'S HEROINES AND FEMININE DISCOURSE: METAMORPHOSES 7 AND 10 / Kathryn L. Mckinley -- REPRESENTATIONS OF THE FEMININE IN MEDIEVAL COMMENTARIES ON METAMORPHOSES 7 AND 10 (1100-1328) / Kathryn L. Mckinley -- LATE MEDIEVAL AND EARLY MODERN READINGS OF THE FEMININE IN METAMORPHOSES 7 AND lO / Kathryn L. Mckinley -- CONCLUSION / Kathryn L. Mckinley -- SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY / Kathryn L. Mckinley -- INDEX / Kathryn L. Mckinley.

Sommario/riassunto

This study investigates the reception of Ovid's heroines in Metamorphoses commentaries written between 1100 and 1618. The Ovidian heroine offers a telling window onto medieval and early modern clerical constructions of gender and selfhood. In the context of classical representations of the feminine, the book examines Ovid's engagement of the heroine to explore problems of intentionality. The second part of the study presents commentaries by such clerics as



William of Orléans, the \'Vulgate\' commentator, Thomas Walsingham, and Raphael Regius, illustrating the reception of the Ovidian heroine in medieval France and England as well as in Renaissance Italy and Germany. The works analyzed here show that clerical readings of the feminine in Ovid reflect greater heterogeneity than is commonly alleged. Both moralizing summaries and Latin editions used as schooltexts are discussed.