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Mail and Female: Epistolary Narrative and Desire in Ovid's Heroides

Sara Lindheim

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Description:In the Heroides, the Roman poet Ovid wittily plucks fifteen abandoned heroines 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 in which the women seemingly tell their own stories. She points out that in Ovids 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. Lindheims approach illuminates what these poems reveal about both masculine and feminine constructions of the feminineWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Mail and Female: Epistolary Narrative and Desire in Ovid's Heroides. To get started finding Mail and Female: Epistolary Narrative and Desire in Ovid's Heroides, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 286

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press

Release: 2003

ISBN: 0299192636

Description: In the Heroides, the Roman poet Ovid wittily plucks fifteen abandoned heroines 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 in which the women seemingly tell their own stories. She points out that in Ovids 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. Lindheims approach illuminates what these poems reveal about both masculine and feminine constructions of the feminineWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Mail and Female: Epistolary Narrative and Desire in Ovid's Heroides. To get started finding Mail and Female: Epistolary Narrative and Desire in Ovid's Heroides, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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