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 |
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Print version record |
Subject |
Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D. Heroides.
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Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D. -- Technique
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SUBJECT |
Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D. fast |
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Heroides (Ovid) fast |
Subject |
Epistolary poetry, Latin -- History and criticism
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Mythology, Classical, in literature.
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Books and reading in literature.
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Women authors in literature.
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Love-letters in literature.
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Authorship in literature.
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Heroines in literature.
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Women in literature.
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Intertextuality.
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POETRY -- Ancient, Classical & Medieval.
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Authorship in literature
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Books and reading in literature
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Epistolary poetry, Latin
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Heroines in literature
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Intertextuality
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Love-letters in literature
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Mythology, Classical, in literature
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Technique
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Women authors in literature
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Women in literature
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Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Form |
Electronic book
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LC no. |
2005046996 |
ISBN |
9780511482175 |
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0511482175 |
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9780511128004 |
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0511128002 |
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1107152518 |
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9781107152519 |
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0511182279 |
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9780511182273 |
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0511199694 |
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9780511199691 |
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9780521117814 |
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052111781X |
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