Plotting women: spectacle and intratextual dialogue in Ovid's Heroides 2 and 10
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https://doi.org/10.61378/enun.v8i2.176Keywords:
Heroides, female authorship, drama, space-time, ironyAbstract
This article analyses the Epistles of Phyllis and Ariadne in Ovid's Heroides from a dramatic perspective. It explores the ways in which the heroine-authors’ speeches build an epistolary theatre by incorporating different genres into the work. For this purpose, we will argue that these two letters are related to each other within the collection based on two features shared by the elegiac, the epistolary and the dramatic genres: the space and time conventions, and the irony effects. This study aims to highlight the female voice and its authorial power in the ancient texts, regarding generic mixture and intratextuality as two key-elements which confer a theatrical dimension to the selected letters.
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