Kronos as Crone: Inversions of Beauty and Gender through Translation in L'Astrée

• Published in: Seventeenth-century French studies Vol. 33; no. 1; pp. 24 - 38
• Main Author: Meding, Twyla
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Routledge 01.07.2011
• Subjects: EKPHRASIS; ENARGEIA; FAIRY-TALE; GENDER; SATURN; TRANSLATION; URFÉ

In this essay, I treat problems of translation and ekphrasis and their relationship to the representation of gender in the First Part of Honoré d'Urfé's pastoral romance, L'Astrée. Through allusion to Petrarch's canzone 90, d'Urfé provides in the opening pages of his romance...