Seeking the mothers in Ovid's "Heroides" /

"Incorporates contemporary feminist theories and provides interdisciplinary perspectives on motherhood within Ovidian works and classical literature more broadly and questions the widely acknowledged dialectic between the (male) voice of the poet and the (female) voice of the heroines to argue...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Martorana, Simona, 1992- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2024.
Subjects:	Ovid, > 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D. > Heroides. Motherhood in literature. Women in literature. Classical literature > History and criticism. Maternité dans la littérature. Femmes dans la littérature. Littérature ancienne > Histoire et critique.

Table of Contents:

Introduction: Seeking the mothers in Ovid's Heroides
A traditional matrona? Penelope between motherhood and heroism (Heroides 1)
Deianira, Hercules, and Hyllus (Heroides 9): to mētros onoma
Phaedra and the reconceptualization of (step)motherhood (Heroides 4)
The abject body: Canace in Heroides 11
Pregnancy, écriture feminine, and the birth of the text: Dido in Heroides 7
Motherhood, metamorphosis, and autopoiesis (Medea in Heroides 12)
The self and the (m)other: encounters, borders, and formation of subjectivity (Hypsipyle in Heroides 6)
Epilogue: Maternal environments.