Title The Ovidian heroine as author : reading, writing, and community in the Heroides / Laurel Fulkerson

Published Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2005

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 187 pages) Contents Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction; Reading dangerously: Phyllis, Dido, Ariadne, and Medea; Reading the future?: Hypsipyle, Medea, and Oenone; Benefits of communal writing: Canace and Hypermestra; A feminine reading of epic: Briseis and Hermione; Reading magically: Deianira and Laodamia; Reading like a virgin: Phaedra and Ariadne; Caveat lector: thoughts on gender and power; Appendix: The authenticity (and "authenticity") of Heroides 15; Bibliography; Index; Index Locorum Summary This works represents a new departure in the treatment of Ovid's Heroides, letters by women deserted by men. It portrays the women as agents rather than victims, employing textual strategies for their own ends. Combining traditional scholarship with recent criticism, it is required reading for any student of Latin literature Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 159-170) and index Notes English Print version record Subject Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D. Heroides. Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D. -- Technique SUBJECT Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D. fast Heroides (Ovid) fast Subject Epistolary poetry, Latin -- History and criticism Mythology, Classical, in literature. Books and reading in literature. Women authors in literature. Love-letters in literature. Authorship in literature. Heroines in literature. Women in literature. Intertextuality. POETRY -- Ancient, Classical & Medieval. Authorship in literature Books and reading in literature Epistolary poetry, Latin Heroines in literature Intertextuality Love-letters in literature Mythology, Classical, in literature Technique Women authors in literature Women in literature Genre/Form Electronic books Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book LC no. 2005046996 ISBN 9780511482175 0511482175 9780511128004 0511128002 1107152518 9781107152519 0511182279 9780511182273 0511199694 9780511199691 9780521117814 052111781X

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