| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 187 pages) |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 159-170) and index. |
| Summary |
This works represents a new departure in the treatment of Ovid's Heroides, letters by women deserted by men. It portrays the women as agents rather than victims, employing textual strategies for their own ends. Combining traditional scholarship with recent criticism, it is required reading for any student of Latin literature. |
| Contents |
Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction; Reading dangerously: Phyllis, Dido, Ariadne, and Medea; Reading the future?: Hypsipyle, Medea, and Oenone; Benefits of communal writing: Canace and Hypermestra; A feminine reading of epic: Briseis and Hermione; Reading magically: Deianira and Laodamia; Reading like a virgin: Phaedra and Ariadne; Caveat lector: thoughts on gender and power; Appendix: The authenticity (and "authenticity") of Heroides 15; Bibliography; Index; Index Locorum. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D. Heroides.
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Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D. -- Technique.
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Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D. |
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Technique. |
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Heroides (Ovid) |
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Epistolary poetry, Latin -- History and criticism.
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Epistolary poetry, Latin. |
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Mythology, Classical, in literature.
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Mythology, Classical, in literature. |
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Books and reading in literature.
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Books and reading in literature. |
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Women authors in literature.
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Women authors in literature. |
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Love-letters in literature.
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Love-letters in literature. |
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Authorship in literature.
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Authorship in literature. |
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Heroines in literature.
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Heroines in literature. |
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Women in literature.
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Women in literature. |
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Intertextuality.
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Intertextuality. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Fulkerson, Laurel, 1972- Ovidian heroine as author. Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2005 (DLC) 2005046996 |
| ISBN |
9780511482175 (electronic book) |
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0511482175 (electronic book) |
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9780511128004 (electronic book) |
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0511128002 (electronic book) |
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0511127472 |
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9780511127472 |
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0521846722 (Cloth) |
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9780521846721 |
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0511300255 |
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9780511300257 |
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1280422343 |
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9781280422348 |
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