The Ovidian Heroine as Author

Reading, Writing, and Community in the Heroides

Dados Bibliográficos

ID19910883
AutoresLaurel Fulkerson (Florida State University, autor correspondente)
Ano2005
Data de publicação2005-07-14
Open AccessSim
TipoBOOK
PeriódicoOvidian Heroine as Author (SOURCE_BOOK)
EditoraCambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1017/cbo9780511482175
OpenAlexW1592506095
Open LibraryOL22629763M
ISBN9780511482175
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas63
Referências citadas155

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

Art · DIDO · EPIC · Lament · Linguistics · Literature · Mirroring · Mythology · Poetry · Similarity (geometry) · World Wide Web · Artificial Intelligence · Classical Antiquity Studies · Communication · Computer Science · Historical and Literary Studies · Historical, Religious, and Philosophical Studies · History · Philosophy · Psychology · 43 b.c.-17 a.d. or 18 a.d · Intertextuality · Mythology, in literature · Ovid · Women in literature