{"product_id":"renaissance-postscripts-paul-white-9780814257012","title":"Renaissance Postscripts: Responding to Ovid's Heroides in Sixteenth-Century France","description":"Ovid's \u003ci\u003eHeroides\u003c\/i\u003e, a collection consisting mainly of poetic love letters sent by mythological heroines to their absent lovers, held a particular fascination for Renaissance readers. To understand their responses to these letters, we must ask exactly how and in what contexts those readers first encountered them: were they read in Latin or in the vernacular; as source texts for the learning of grammar and history or as love poetry; as epistolary and rhetorical models or as moral examples? \u003ci\u003eRenaissance Postscripts: Responding to Ovid's\u003c\/i\u003e Heroides \u003ci\u003ein Sixteenth-Century France\u003c\/i\u003e by Paul White offers an account of the wide variety of responses to the \u003ci\u003eHeroides\u003c\/i\u003e within the realm of humanist education, in the works of both Latin commentators and French translators, and as an example of a particular mode of imitation. The author examines how humanists shaped the discourse of Ovid's heroines and heroes to pedagogical ends and analyses even the woodcuts that illustrated various editions. This study traces comparative readings of French translations through a period noted for important shifts in attitudes to the text and to poetic translation in general and offers an important history of the \"reply epistle\"-a mode of imitation attempted both in Latin and the vernacular. \u003ci\u003eRenaissance Postscripts\u003c\/i\u003e shows that while the \u003ci\u003eHeroides\u003c\/i\u003e was a versatile text that could serve a wide range of pedagogical and literary purposes, it was also a text that resisted the attempts of its interpreters to have the final word.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Paul White\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0814257011\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780814257012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Ohio State University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/29\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.94lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.65d","brand":"Paul White","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48453404328191,"sku":"9780814257012","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_eaea0571-af37-414d-9232-9365f0084c54.jpg?v=1777300043","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/renaissance-postscripts-paul-white-9780814257012","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}