Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Ziolkowski, Theodore
• Miller, John F
• Newlands, Carole E

Titel

Ovid in Germany

Ist Teil von

• A Handbook to the Reception of Ovid, 2014, p.386-400

Ort / Verlag

Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Inc

Erscheinungsjahr

2014

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

Wiley Online Library All Obooks

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The German reception of Ovid provides a sensitive seismograph for the transformations of German history and society. In particular, the twentieth century has seen a major reevaluation of Ovid in the politicization, feminization, and aestheticization of his poetry; in scholarship, too, Wilamowitz was instrumental in the rehabilitation of Ovid, defending him against charges of rhetorical frivolity. The Metamorphoses appealed to the desire for transformation and existential experience before and after World War I. The exile poetry became important in the Nazi era to émigré writers who saw him as the archetypal exile, and in the period of the Cold War by authors on both sides of the East/West divide. In the unified Germany after 1990, the Metamorphoses particularly has appealed to postmodern writers exploring the shifting boundaries between fantasy and reality and even between different ethnicities.