Ovid's Tragic Heroines : : Gender Abjection and Generic Code-switching / / Jessica A. Westerhold.
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 Att...
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Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2023] ©2023 |
Year of Publication: | 2023 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (228 p.) :; 1 b&w halftone |
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Other title: | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- OVID’S TRAGIC HEROINES -- Introduction: Ovid’ s Tragic Performances -- 1. Signs of Abject Desire in Ars Amatoria -- 2. Rescripting Phaedra for an Elegiac Role -- 3. Medean Disruptions in Epic and Elegy -- Conclusion: Ovid’s Abject Exile -- Notes -- References -- Index of Ancient Sources -- General Index |
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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 a free reign to oscillate and play with poetic possibilities. Jessica A. Westerhold focuses on select passages from the poems Ars Amatoria, Heroides, and Metamorphoses. Building on existing scholarship, she analyzes the dynamic nature of generic categories and codes in Ovid's poetry, especially the interplay of elegy and epic. Further, her analysis of Ovid's reception applies the idea of the abject to elucidate Ovid's process of constructing gender and genre in his poetry. Ovid's Tragic Heroines incorporates established theories of the performativity of sex, gender, and kinship roles to understand the continued maintenance of the normative and abject subject positions Ovid's poetry creates. The resulting analysis reveals how Ovid's Phaedras and Medeas offer alternatives both to traditional gender roles and to material appropriate to a poem's genre, ultimately using the tragic code to introduce a new perspective to epic and elegy. |
Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
ISBN: | 9781501770371 9783110751833 9783111319292 9783111318912 9783111319087 9783111318110 |
DOI: | 10.1515/9781501770371?locatt=mode:legacy |
Access: | restricted access |
Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
Statement of Responsibility: | Jessica A. Westerhold. |