Ovid's tragic heroines : gender abjection and generic code-switching / Jessica A. Westerhold.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Westerhold, Jessica A., 1974- author.

Series:

Cornell scholarship online.

Cornell scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Heroines in literature.

Gender identity in literature.

Sex role in literature.

Abjection in literature.

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

Ovid.

Phaedra (Greek mythological character).

Phaedra.

Medea, consort of Aegeus, King of Athens (Mythological character).

Medea.

Genre:

Literary criticism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (228 pages)

Place of Publication:

Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2024.

Summary:

'Ovid's Tragic Heroines' expands our understanding of Ovid's incorporation of Greek generic codes and the tragic heroines, Phaedra and Medea, while offering a new perspective on the Roman poet's persistent interest in these two characters and their paradigms. Ovid presents these two Attic tragic heroines as symbols of different passions that are defined by the specific combination of their gender and generic provenance. Their failure to be understood and their subsequent punishment are constructed as the result of their female 'nature,' and are generically marked as 'tragic.' Ovid's masculine poetic voice, by contrast, is given free rein to oscillate and play with poetic possibilities. Jessica A. Westerhold focuses on select passages from the poems 'Ars Amatoria', 'Heroides', and 'Metamorphoses'.

Contents:

Introduction: Ovid's tragic performances

Signs of abject desire in Ars Amatoria

Rescripting Phaedra for an elegiac role

Medean disruptions in epic and elegy

Conclusion: Ovid's abject exile.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Previously issued in print: 2023.

Other Format:

Print version: Westerhold, Jessica A. Ovid's Tragic Heroines

ISBN:

9781501770364

1501770365

9781501770371

1501770373

OCLC:

1370501846