{"product_id":"echoes-and-reflections-sunhee-kim-gertz-9789042010635","title":"Echoes and Reflections: Memory and Memorials in Ovid and Marie de France","description":"This study examines tales from \u003ci\u003eThe Metamorphoses\u003c\/i\u003e by the Roman poet Ovid (43 BC-18 AD) and from \u003ci\u003eThe Lais\u003c\/i\u003e by the French poet Marie de France (fl. mid-to late twelfth century) to explore a paradox: how can a vibrant, complex, and timeless vision be conveyed in convention-informed and time-bound language? Marie plays against Ovid's tales to probe the dilemma, thereby echoing Ovid who does the same to the canonical literary monuments of his day. Both poets suggest that poetry can avoid the flattening effect of monumental canonizing not only by the creative use of literary echoes, but also by shifting perspectives on the conventional, which in turn, can encourage readers to see reflections of many stories in any given tale. Ovid and Marie suggest and encourage in this manner by presenting literary love's \u003ci\u003etopoi \u003c\/i\u003eand traditional lovers from a variety of metaliterary perspectives, thereby eliciting active readerly memory as well as providing the opportunity to see the conventional afresh, activity that allows even canonical texts to become living memorials.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Sunhee Kim Gertz\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 9042010630\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9789042010635\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Brill\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/01\/2003\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 182\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.59lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.10w x 0.43d","brand":"Sunhee Kim Gertz","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48446525407487,"sku":"9789042010635","price":149.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_740f5591-8f1b-4c95-86cf-a6b8d91378c1.jpg?v=1777225221","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/echoes-and-reflections-sunhee-kim-gertz-9789042010635","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}