{"product_id":"ovids-tragic-heroines-gender-abjection-and-generic-code-switching-9781501770357","title":"Ovid's Tragic Heroines: Gender Abjection and Generic Code-Switching","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eOvid's Tragic Heroines\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e 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.\u003c\/b\u003e 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 free rein to oscillate and play with poetic possibilities. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJessica A. Westerhold focuses on select passages from the poems \u003ci\u003eArs Amatoria\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHeroides\u003c\/i\u003e, and\u003ci\u003e Metamorphoses\u003c\/i\u003e. 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eOvid's Tragic Heroines\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jessica A. Westerhold\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Cornell University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/15\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 228\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.11lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.69d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781501770357","brand":"Cornell University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42440554152073,"sku":"9781501770357","price":52.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0636\/9240\/6921\/files\/img_61640077-81e3-4942-b8f0-dfb07559a099.jpg?v=1716239030","url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/ovids-tragic-heroines-gender-abjection-and-generic-code-switching-9781501770357","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}