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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. Poslední úprava: Gagliastro Donato (29.01.2020)
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