Back to Blog
Heroides by Ovid5/11/2023 ![]() ![]() The most important methodological precedent for F.’s argument is M. There is nothing new in this argument, as evidenced by the abundance of scholarship dedicated to the explication of intertextual episodes in the poems. characterizes the fictional female authors of the collection as belonging to an imaginary community of readers (though she has the somewhat disorienting tendency to discuss them as if they were flesh and blood women rather than fictional literary characters). This book will be of interest to classicists and medievalists, as well as scholars with interests in gender studies.į. ![]() is walking a familiar path yet, as she argues persuasively in her introductory comments, her study substantially advances previous feminist scholarship on the Heroides. In adopting a distinctly feminist approach to the poems, F. Laurel Fulkerson’s (F.) feminist treatment of the single Heroides is the latest addition to this growing body of scholarship. ![]() In recent years, however, this fascinating collection of fictional elegiac epistles has been the subject of a veritable deluge of articles, book chapters, monographs, and commentaries on selected letters. ![]() Ovid’s Heroides were once as neglected by classicists (though not medievalists) as his heroines were by their callous lovers. ![]()
0 Comments
Read More
Leave a Reply. |