This is the first book-length study to reconstruct the experiences of the abandoned heroines of the Heroides, which have been largely ignored by past criticism. Dr Spentzou seeks ways to isolate, characterize, and release the female voice and experience within Ovid's male-authored text. Building on a wide range of ancient as well as modern images and reflections on gender and writing, the book attempts to map the relationship between gendered sensitivities and experience and generic expression and choices. Dr Spentzou uses ...
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This is the first book-length study to reconstruct the experiences of the abandoned heroines of the Heroides, which have been largely ignored by past criticism. Dr Spentzou seeks ways to isolate, characterize, and release the female voice and experience within Ovid's male-authored text. Building on a wide range of ancient as well as modern images and reflections on gender and writing, the book attempts to map the relationship between gendered sensitivities and experience and generic expression and choices. Dr Spentzou uses the insight gained by the boom of intertextual studies in recent Latin scholarship to go a step further and address explicitly the ideologies of intertextual studies. This is a book about readers and reading, just as much as about women and gender, and it is also an in-depth study of the intricate and heated negotiations behind the interpretative act.
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Very Good Condition. Dust jacket is complete but lightly rubbed at edges and corners. All pages clean, crisp and fresh. Overall, very sound and presentable. Publisher's note: It is a book determined to valorize and celebrate gendered experience and expression as they emerge through the intricate intertextuality of the collection and it offers an extensive exploration of the complexities of interpretation and literary voice(s). Dr. Spentzou works at the intersection of ancient criticism and modern literary theories as images of and reflections on gender, genre, and writing-which span from Plato, and the Greek tragedians to Cixous, Kristeva, and modern epistolary theorists-meet, interpret, and are reinterpreted in the heroines' monologues. The book develops and also challenges one of the most significant explicative tools of Classical poetry in recent times, intertextuality, as it attempts to instil ideology into self-reflexive experimentation and to establish gendered thinking as a drive that pervades a series of political, formalist, generic, reader-oriented and other discourses xx, 231 pp. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Literature & Literary; Sex differences in literature; Heroines in literature; Heroides (Ovid); Mythology, Classical, in literature; Separation (Psychology) in literature; Women and literature; ISBN: 0199255687. ISBN/EAN: 9780199255689. Add. Inventory No: 231102HAAD02021.
