Black-Sea Latin, Du Bellay, and the Barbarian TurnTristia, Regrets, Translations
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23185152 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Stephen Hinds (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Pages | 59-83 |
| Publication date | 2011-10-20 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | Two Thousand Years Of Solitude (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199603848.003.0004 |
| OpenAlex | W2495812343 |
| ISBN | 9780199603848 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
This chapter explores the nexus between exile, alienation, and a professed loss of linguistic identity or capacity. It focuses on Joachim Du Bellay, whose Regrets is overtly modelled in set-up on Ovid’s Tristia, with the paradox that Du Bellay’s post-Ovidian place of exile and alienation is the very city from which Ovid was exiled and to which he longed to return, Rome, and that Du Bellay is forced by the incomprehension of the locals to abandon his native French and to write poetry in the language of his place of exile: Latin. A coda considers an Ovidian moment of passage between languages in the work of the modern Irish dramatist Brian Friel; and the chapter also explores the (surprisingly muted) tradition of response to the exile poetry in the first century after Ovid’s death, arguing that the possibilities of Pontic linguistic alienation already received attention from Seneca and Martial.
Alienation · Archaeology · Art · Barbarian · Elegy · Irish · Linguistics · Literature · Poetry · Classical Antiquity Studies · Historical and Literary Analyses · History · Law · Linguistics and language evolution · Philosophy
| Citations per year | 0.18 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2015 - 2023 (9) |
| Highly cited | No |