Mail and Female : Epistolary Narrative and Desire in Ovid's Heroides
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Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Wisconsin Studies in Classics
ISBN-10
0299192644
ISBN-13
9780299192648
Publisher
University of Wisconsin Press
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University of Wisconsin Press
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Oct 31st, 2003
Print length
240 Pages
Weight
450 grams
Dimensions
22.60 x 15.10 x 1.90 cms
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Using feminist and psychoanalytic approaches to examine the ""female voice"" in the ""Heroides"", Sara H. Lindheim closely reads these fictive letters. She points out that in Ovid's verse epistles all the women represent themselves in a strikingly similar and disjointed fashion.
In the ""Heroides"" the Roman poet Ovid wittily plucks 15 abandoned heriones 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. 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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