The Severed Word : : Ovid's Heroides and the Novela Sentimental / / Marina Scordilis Brownlee.

In this wide-ranging study Marina Scordilis Brownlee investigates the importance of the letter--often a complex interplay of objectivity and subjectivity--in the establishment of novelistic discourse. She shows how Ovid's Heroides explore the discourse of epistolarity in a way that exerted a la...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1980-1999
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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014]
©1990
Year of Publication:2014
Edition:Course Book
Language:English
Series:Princeton Legacy Library ; 1122
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Physical Description:1 online resource (284 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • PROLOGUE: TWO THEORIES OF UTTERANCE
  • PART ONE: EPISTOLARY ANATOMY
  • ONE. Victim as Artist-Epistulae Herodium
  • TWO. Exemplary Counterfeit-El Bursario
  • THREE. Voyeuristic Betrayal-Elegia di madonna Fiammetta
  • FOUR. Mediated Discourse-Historia de duobus amantibus
  • PART TWO: THE ALLEGORICAL PARADOX
  • FIVE. Failed Eroticism-Siervo libre de amor
  • SIX. The Untranscendent Vision-Satira de felice e infelice vida
  • SEVEN. Etiological Subversion-Triste deleytaçion
  • PART THREE: LINGUISTIC TRANSGRESSIONS
  • EIGHT. Pandered Words-Arnalte y Lucenda
  • NINE. Imprisoned Discourse-Cárce! de amor
  • TEN. The Book as Galeotto-Grimalte y Gradissa
  • ELEVEN. Language and Incest-Grisel y Mirabella
  • EPILOGUE: Physical and Verbal Violence
  • NOTES
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • INDEX