By Laurel Fulkerson
Ovid's Heroides, a listing of letters via girls who've been abandoned, has too usually been tested as purely a lament. In a brand new departure, this e-book portrays the ladies of the Heroides as a neighborhood of authors. Combining shut readings of the texts and their mythological backgrounds with severe tools, the e-book argues that the issues of similarity among different letters of the Heroides, so usually derided via smooth critics, signify a super exploitation of intratextuality, during which the Ovidian heroine self-consciously models herself as an alluding writer stimulated by means of what she has learn in the Heroides. faraway from being naive and impotent sufferers, consequently, the heroines are remarkably astute, if now not consistently profitable, at adapting textual innovations that they understand as beneficial for achieving their very own ends. With this new procedure Professor Fulkerson indicates that the Heroides articulate a fictional poetic, mirroring modern practices of poetic composition.
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The poet’s refusal to impose an order on the chaos is in itself a bold statement of the complex relationship between reader and author, in which the reader is given a significant amount of power. This book will thus offer synchronic readings of the letters, but occasionally refer to their relative placement. The so-called double Heroides are not the focus of this book, as they engage with a different set of issues. Yet, although they are not based on the same kind of community, and although they feature letters from men as well as women, they will provide useful comparison to the single Heroides.
The possibility of ‘‘another wife’’ fits in well with Phyllis’ view that this story of abandonment and betrayal will be replayed endlessly, as it is in her mind – and in the Heroides. 109); the word appears only here in the Heroides. 12, while a conventional phrase, may suggest the story of Theseus’ forgotten white sails (1995: 115). 130). 49). 44 It was suggested above that Medea’s hatred of Theseus might have influenced Phyllis; here it becomes obvious that, given both Ariadne and Medea’s presences in Phyllis’ story, the impetus to curse Theseus is overwhelming.
54 As many have noted, reading and writing within a community are key issues in Ovidian poetics; this study will offer a metapoetic reading of community that simultaneously broadens its parameters and shows its inner workings. I will therefore be concerned with the ways in which the poems set themselves up against one another, demand to be read and reread, in order and out of order, and constantly allude not only to the canonical versions of their own stories, but also the stories of other heroines and the actual texts of the other poems in the collection.