READERS AND WRITERS IN OVID'S HEROIDES by Efrossini Spentzou ( 9780199255689 )

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Title:

READERS AND WRITERS IN OVID'S HEROIDES
TRANSGRESSIONS OF GENRE AND GENDER

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Hardback

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ISBN 10:

0199255687

ISBN 13:

9780199255689

Publisher:

OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

13 March, 2003

Pages:

252

Description:

This is the first book-length study to reconstruct the experiences of the abandoned heroines of the Heroides, which have been largely ignored by past criticism. Dr Spentzou isolates the voices of landmark female figures of the classical myth, releasing them from Ovid's male text. Bringing together a broad range of ancient and modern critical thought, this is a book about gender, genre, writing, and reading women and men, in antiquity and today.

Synopsis:

This is the first book-length study to reconstruct the experiences of the abandoned heroines of the Heroides, which have been largely ignored by past criticism. Dr Spentzou seeks ways to isolate, characterize, and release the female voice and experience within Ovid's male-authored text. Building on a wide range of ancient as well as modern images and reflections on gender and writing, the book attempts to map the relationship between gendered sensitivities and experience and generic expression and choices. Dr Spentzou uses the insight gained by the boom of intertextual studies in recent Latin scholarship to go a step further and address explicitly the ideologies of intertextual studies. This is a book about readers and reading, just as much as about women and gender, and it is also an in-depth study of the intricate and heated negotiations behind the interpretative act.

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