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The Ovidian Heroine as Author - Reading, Writing, and Community in the Heroides (Hardcover, New)
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The Ovidian Heroine as Author - Reading, Writing, and Community in the Heroides (Hardcover, New)
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Ovid's Heroides, a catalogue of letters by women who have been
deserted, has too frequently been examined as merely a lament. In a
new departure, this book portrays the women of the Heroides as a
community of authors. Combining close readings of the texts and
their mythological backgrounds with critical methods, the book
argues that the points of similarity between the different letters
of the Heroides, so often derided by modern critics, represent a
brilliant exploitation of intratextuality, in which the Ovidian
heroine self-consciously fashions herself as an alluding author
influenced by what she has read within the Heroides. Far from being
naive and impotent victims, therefore, the heroines are remarkably
astute, if not always successful, at adapting textual strategies
that they perceive as useful for attaining their own ends. With
this new approach Professor Fulkerson shows that the Heroides
articulate a fictional poetic, mirroring contemporary practices of
poetic composition.
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