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OVID'S TRAGIC HEROINES : gender abjection and generic code-switching by Jessica A. Westerhold is a literary studies available to read on EtoBox.
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<p><b><i>Ovid's Tragic Heroines</i></b><b> 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.</b> 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 pu
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- Author
- Jessica A. Westerhold
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press
- Published
- 2023
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781501770364
- Category
- literary studies
- Subjects
- Poetry, Gender Studies, Science
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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