Seeking the Mothers in Ovid's "Heroides"

Seeking the Mothers in Ovid's
Author: Simona Martorana
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Total Pages: 369
Release: 2024-09-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 1501777076

Seeking the Mothers in Ovid's "Heroides" explores Ovid's reconceptualization of the heroines' maternal experience. Rather than aligning them with the stereotypical roles of Roman women, motherhood enables the Ovidian heroines to challenge traditional norms with irreverent perspectives on gender categories and familial relationships. To confront these perspectives and overcome the dialectic between the (male) voice of the poet and the (female) voice of the heroines, Seeking the Mothers in Ovid's "Heroides" argues for a form of polyphonic "cooperation" between the two voices, thus providing new angles on ironical discourse and gender fluidity within the Heroides. By reading the Heroides both through feminist theory and against Ovid's poetic production, Simona Martorana provides a novel approach to describe how motherhood enhances the heroines' agency, drawing on works of Kristeva, Irigaray, Butler, Mulvey, Cavarero, Braidotti, and Ettinger. The application of theory is flexible throughout Seeking the Mothers in Ovid's "Heroides" and tailored to the nuances of specific passages rather than being uniformly imposed on the ancient text. Seeking the Mothers in Ovid's "Heroides" reveals how the irony, ambiguity, and polyphony intrinsic to Ovid's poetry are amplified by the heroines' poetic voices. Martorana breaks new ground by incorporating contemporary feminist theories within the analysis of the Heroides and provides an original comprehensive analysis of motherhood that encompasses other Ovidian works, Latin poetry, and classical literature more broadly.

Ovid's Heroides

Ovid's Heroides
Author: Ovid
Publisher: Dutton Juvenile
Total Pages: 232
Release: 1971
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN:

A young woman accidentally turns in a private story from her journal instead of an English assignment and becomes a best-selling author almost overnight.

Ovid in English, 1480-1625. Part One: Metamorphoses.

Ovid in English, 1480-1625. Part One: Metamorphoses.
Author: Sarah Annes Brown
Publisher: MHRA
Total Pages: 254
Release: 2013-10-07
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 0947623922

This volume brings together a range of celebrated and less familiar translations of Ovid’s Metamorphoses produced in English between 1480 and 1625, beginning with the story of Narcissus from Caxton’s manuscript translation of the Metamorphoses and ending with George Sandys’s version of Callisto’s tale. The volume as a whole reflects the complex (and shifting) variety of Ovid’s early modern reception. These poems, some of them republished here for the first time, help extend and enrich our understanding of Ovid’s influence on early modern literature. All texts have been fully modernised and annotated, rendering them accessible to students and general readers as well as scholars of the period.

The Mothers

The Mothers
Author: Robert Briffault
Publisher:
Total Pages: 814
Release: 1927
Genre: Anthropology
ISBN:

A Commentary on Ovid, Remedia Amoris

A Commentary on Ovid, Remedia Amoris
Author: Victoria Rimell
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 438
Release: 2024-04
Genre: History
ISBN: 0192894218

A detailed philological and interpretative reading of Ovid's most neglected poem, the Remedia Amoris. In her immersive, creatively interpretative guide to the poem, Victoria Rimell's commentary resets critical perspectives by reading the Remedia as distinctive and original, and as a pivotal text within Ovid's oeuvre.

Reproducing Rome

Reproducing Rome
Author: Mairéad McAuley
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 462
Release: 2016
Genre: History
ISBN: 0199659362

Reproducing Rome is a study of the representation of maternity in the Roman literature of the first century CE-particularly Virgil, Ovid, Seneca, and Statius-considering to what degree it reflects, constructs, or subverts Roman ideals of, and anxieties about, family and motherhood.

Ovid Renewed

Ovid Renewed
Author: Charles Martindale
Publisher: CUP Archive
Total Pages: 340
Release: 1990-07-27
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780521397452

This book is a study of Ovid and his poetry as a cultural phenomenon, conceived in the belief that such a study of tradition also casts fresh light on Ovid himself. Its main concern is with exploring the influence of Ovid on literature, especially English literature, but it also takes a wider perspective, including, for example, the visual arts. The book takes the form of a series of studies by specialists in their fields, including a number of scholars of international renown. The essays cover the period from the twelfth century, when there was an upsurge of interest in Ovid, through to the decline in his fortunes in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. They are critical and comparative in approach and collectively give a detailed sense of Ovid's importance in Western culture. Topics covered include Ovid's influence on Chaucer, Spenser, Shakespeare and his contemporaries, Dryden, T. S. Eliot, the myths of Daedalus and Icarus and Pygmalion, and the influence of Ovid's poetry on art.