University Press Scholarship Online You are looking at 1-10 of 80 items for: keywords : heroine Readers and Writers in Ovid's Heroides Item type: book acprof:oso/9780199255689.001.0001 This book presents a study which reconstructs the experiences of the abandoned heroines of the Heroides, which have been largely ignored by past criticism. The book seeks ways to isolate, characterize, and release the female voice and experience within Ovid's male-authored text. Building on a wide range of ancient as well as modern images and reflections on gender and writing, the book attempts to map the relationship between gendered sensitivities and experience and generic expression and choices. The book uses the insight gained by the boom of intertextual studies in recent Latin scholarship to go a step further and address explicitly the ideologies of intertextual studies. This is a book about readers and reading, just as much as about women and gender, and it is also a study of the intricate and heated negotiations behind the interpretative act. Susan Glaspell's Century of American Women Veronica Makowsky Published in print: 1993 Published Online: October 2011 ISBN: 9780195078664 eisbn: 9780199855117 Item type: book acprof:oso/9780195078664.001.0001 As a female writer in the shadow of the cultural nimbus generated by her male peers, and as a transcendentalist in the spirit of Emerson among modernists, Susan Glaspell has suffered from literary obscurity from the start. An accomplished playwright, and co-founder of the Provincetown Players, Glaspell created self-reliant female heroines in works which were often dismissed as experimental by her colleagues. By focusing on the women of Glaspell s writing and their struggles with the issues of motherhood and social limitation, this book seeks to vindicate Susan Glaspell and to offer her work to the attention of a new generation of Page 1 of 5
readers. At the same time, the author offers a valuable and topical inquiry into the nature of the cultural and political forces that shape our perceptions of literary greatness and, ultimately, the canon. A Novel of Female Genius Ann Jefferson in Genius in France: An Idea and Its Uses Published in print: 2014 Published Online: October 2017 ISBN: 9780691160658 eisbn: 9781400852598 Publisher: Princeton University Press DOI: 10.23943/ princeton/9780691160658.003.0011 This chapter considers the links between women and genius in the figure of Mme De Staël's Corinne (from her 1807 of the same name). At the time of its publication women there seemed to be no place for women in genius or for genius in women. At the same time, however, the novel, which was traditionally associated with a female readership, was gaining status as a literary genre. Mme de Staël, as one of the rare women commentators on genius, curiously made no explicit attempt to counter the arguments of those who denied genius to her sex and even echoed many of their assumptions. Yet she would eventually come to portray the heroine of her second novel, Corinne, as an unambiguous incarnation of female genius. Sentimental Knowledge in La finta giardiniera Jessica Waldoff in Recognition in Mozart's Operas Published in print: 2006 Published Online: May 2008 ISBN: 9780195151978 eisbn: 9780199870387 acprof:oso/9780195151978.003.0005 More than any other of Mozart's operas, La finta giardiniera (The Pretend Garden Girl), draws on a culture and an archetype virtually unknown today: the culture is that of sensibility and the archetype that of the giardiniera to which the title refers the sentimental heroine of Carlo Goldoni's and Niccolò Piccinni's wildly popular La buona figliuola. Both Piccinni's opera and Mozart's belong to a circle of works loosely based on Richardson's sentimental novel Pamela. Giardiniera has often been disparaged for its convoluted and somewhat static plot, but this chapter argues that it needs to be read as Dr. Johnson recommends we read Richardson: for the sentiment. Supposed inconsistencies and implausibilities, including mad scenes for the central protagonists, are Page 2 of 5
considered here as opportunities to indulge in feeling, a staple of the sentimental genres. Fiordiligi: A Woman of Feeling Jessica Waldoff in Recognition in Mozart's Operas Published in print: 2006 Published Online: May 2008 ISBN: 9780195151978 eisbn: 9780199870387 acprof:oso/9780195151978.003.0008 This chapter considers Fiordiligi's conflicted status as a sentimental heroine. She is a woman of feeling whose affectionate sensibility and natural sympathy for the suffering of others makes her vulnerable to men, placing her virtue in distress, but she is also a woman whose moral constancy is eventually overcome by the immediacy of her feelings for another. Fiordiligi's struggle brings into question one of the central tenets of the sentimental culture: that feeling makes its own virtue. Several moments crucial to this characterization are treated, including the trio È la fede delle femmine, the sisters' first duet No. 4, the arias Come scoglio and Per pietà, and the duet with Ferrando Fra gli amplessi. The climactic recognition scenes in which feeling triumphs over constancy cannot be easily reconciled with the dénouement that restores both sisters to their original partners. Getting Down To Essentials? acprof:oso/9780199255689.003.0002 This chapter begins with a brief description of the recent increase in studies on Ovid's Heroides. It then discusses the main goal of the book, which is to characterize the feminine voice in the male-authored text. An overview of the succeeding chapters is presented. Page 3 of 5
Reading Characters Read: On Methodology acprof:oso/9780199255689.003.0003 This chapter elaborates the main interpretative strategies of the book's approach, arguing for its position within the wider context of the existing scholarship on the Heroides. The first section of draws a rough map of the main lines of enquiry that have been traced by critics so far. It briefly sketches the passage from the earlier derogatory comments on the heroines' portraits to the more recent interest in the subtle intertextual games played by Ovid in these deeply self-conscious narratives. The remainder of the chapter delineates the main preoccupations of the book' s approach in the light of the insight gained and impasses reached by the previous critical strands. Landscapes of Lost Innocence acprof:oso/9780199255689.003.0004 This chapter draws attention to a so-called rhetoric of innocence in the Heroides. In particular, it explores the symbolism of images of idealized happiness which are to be found scattered in the poems, investing in the collection a drive for emotional and poetical closure. However, writing reigns over the collection: in the course of the chapter, this innocent order will be disturbed and ultimately annulled by the complexities of the heroines' self-reflexive conscience, just as their visions of innocence will be gradually disturbed by their artistic impulse. The Heroines in the Chora of Writing 1 acprof:oso/9780199255689.003.0005 Page 4 of 5
This chapter is concerned with the heroines' feminine voice. Building on the metapoetic metaphor of the heroines' artistic awakening, it follows their efforts to establish their own discourse and turn themselves from scriptae puellae ( written girls ) to writing women, whose flowing narrative responds to descriptions of the female nature and creativity from ancient philosophy to modern French feminism. Specific emphasis is given to the symbolic significance of their (in)famous and much derided enclosure, which reveals powerful characteristics of a feminine space and a feminine order. A Splintery Frame: the Heroides as Short Stories acprof:oso/9780199255689.003.0007 This chapter explores the Heroides as short stories. It addresses aspects of brevity that involve more than Quellenforschung; brevity, as envisaged here, works as a catalyst that sets off a complex war of supremacy within the collection. The heroines' short stories reveal the heroines' daring protest against the mega-narratives of the past, but their fervent rhetoric also encompasses their creator. Page 5 of 5