Mail & Female Epistolary Narrative and Desire in Ovid's Heroides
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Wisconsin Studies in Classics
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Einband
Taschenbuch
Erscheinungsdatum
01.10.2003
Verlag
University Of Wisconsin PressSeitenzahl
240
Maße (L/B/H)
23.3/15/2.1 cm
Gewicht
450 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-0-299-19264-8
In the "Heroides, " the Roman poet Ovid wittily plucks fifteen abandoned heroines from ancient myth and literature and creates the fiction that each woman writes a letter to the hero who left her behind. But in giving voice to these heroines, is Ovid writing like a woman, or writing "Woman" like a man?
Using feminist and psychoanalytic approaches to examine the "female voice" in the "Heroides," Sara H. Lindheim closely reads these fictive letters in which the women seemingly tell their own stories. She points out that in Ovid's verse epistles all the women represent themselves in a strikingly similar and disjointed fashion. Lindheim turns to Lacanian theory of desire to explain these curious and hauntingly repetitive representations of the heroines in the "female voice." Lindheim's approach illuminates what these poems reveal about both masculine and feminine constructions of the feminine
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