Heroines and writers: reading female voices in Ovid's Heroides - AGLV00051

• Title: Heroines and writers: reading female voices in Ovid's Heroides
• Guaranteed by: Institute for Greek and Latin Studies (21-URLS)
• Faculty: Faculty of Arts
• Actual: from 2020
• Semester: summer
• Points: 0
• E-Credits: 4
• Examination process: summer s.:
• Hours per week, examination: summer s.:0/2, Ex [HT]
• Capacity: unknown / unknown (unknown)
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: not taught
• Language: English
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Note: you can enroll for the course repeatedly; course can be enrolled in outside the study plan; enabled for web enrollment; can be fulfilled in the future
• Guarantor: Donato Gagliastro
• Class: A – Mezioborová nabídka VP: Literatura; Exchange - 09.3 Linguistics; Exchange - 09.4 Translation, Interpretation; Exchange - 09.5 Classical Philology

Aim of the course

Last update: Donato Gagliastro (29.01.2020)

Long held in low esteem, Ovid’s Heroides have been re-evaluated and recovered from oblivion. Encouraged by the new upsurge in Ovidian studies, the proposed course aims at analyzing the women’s literary representation and de-heroization through the fictional first person. The course will seek to promote an interpretation of the Heroides based on the problem of the female voice in a male-authored text.

Textual analysis conducted on selected epistles will lead students to distinguish the thin boundary separating the historical author of the letters from their writers. In this way, the perspective will broaden into the relationship between heroines’literary lives and Ovid’s intentions and concerns.

 

In the final analysis, to testify to the appeal of Ovid in the European literature, a marginal part of the course will focus on the comparative perspective to highlight the Ovidian influence on Gabriele d’Annunzio’s Phaedra.