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DESCRIPTION:Ovid and Chaucer: Metamorphoses and Metapoetry in Translation \nDr Juliette Vuille \n While Chaucer was notoriously resistant to the process of allegoresis which led to so many medieval \nreinterpretations of Ovid’s works, I will argue in this paper that his interest in the Roman poet lay \nmost pointedly in the metapoetic aspect of Ovid’s writings, that is to say Ovid’s way of writing poetry \nabout writing poetry. Chaucer was particularly tickled when Ovid reflected through the poetic form \non the instability of the auctor and auctoritas constructs as well as the problem of art to transmit \nmeaning accurately. I will posit that Chaucer recognised in Ovid’s works the use of metamorphosis to reflect on the process \nof poetic inventio as a transformation of reality, but also of his sources, into a new literary product. In \nChaucer, the metapoetic metamorphosis is perfected and goes underground, on a textual rather than \na physical level, being deployed by the vernacular author to reflect on poetic inventio, but also, and \nmost importantly, to think about the process of transmission through translation.  After  a  short  discussion  of Ovid's own  metapoetic  reflection  through metamorphosis,  I  shall  discuss  \ntwo  of  Chaucer’s  Ovidian  passages  in  which  I  feel  the  translation  process  is  influenced  by  his  \npredecessor's engagement with metapoetics: The ekphrastic representation of the Dido and Aeneas \nstory  at  the  beginning  of  the House  of  Fame,  and  the  Ceys  and  Alcyone  episode  that  introduces  \nthe Book of the Duchess. 
SUMMARY:Ovid and Chaucer: Metamorphoses and Metapoetry in Translation
CATEGORIES:Conférence
LOCATION:MIS 11\, Salle Laure Dupraz\, Rue de l'Hôpital 4\, 1700 Fribourg
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