Mail and female : epistolary narrative and desire in Ovid's Heroides / Sara H. Lindheim.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lindheim, Sara H.

Series:

Wisconsin studies in classics.

Wisconsin studies in classics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Epistolary poetry, Latin--History and criticism.

Epistolary poetry, Latin.

Love poetry, Latin--History and criticism.

Love poetry, Latin.

Narration (Rhetoric)--History--To 1500.

Narration (Rhetoric).

Separation (Psychology) in literature.

Mythology, Classical, in literature.

Women and literature--Rome.

Women and literature.

Love-letters in literature.

Femininity in literature.

Desire in literature.

Women in literature.

Rhetoric, Ancient.

Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D. Heroides.

Ovid.

Physical Description:

x, 270 p.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, c2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 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

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Re-Reading Ovid's Heroides

1 Mail and Female: Epistolary Narrative and Ovid's Heroines

2 Women into Woman: Voices of Desire

3 Setting Her Straight: Ovid Re-Presents Sappho

Conclusion: Male and Female: Ovid's Illusion of the Woman

Notes

Bibliography

Index of Passages

General Index.

Notes:

Based on the author's dissertation (Brown University).

Includes bibliographical references (p. 245-257) and indexes.

ISBN:

9786612269417

9781282269415

1282269410

9780299192631

0299192636

OCLC:

606989169