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The Severed Word: Ovid's Heroides and the Novela Sentimental
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Full Title:
The Severed Word: Ovid's Heroides and the Novela Sentimental
Contributors:
By (Author) Marina Scordilis Brownlee
Series:
Publisher:
Princeton University Press
Imprint:
Princeton University Press
Publication Date:
23rd September 2014
Country:
United States
Classifications
Readership:
Tertiary Education
Genre:
Fiction/Non-fiction:
Non Fiction
Main Subject:
Dewey:
863.2
Physical Properties
Physical Format:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
284
Dimensions:
Width 152mm, Height 229mm
Weight:
397g
Description
In this wide-ranging study Marina Scordilis Brownlee investigates the importance of the letter--often a complex interplay of objectivity and subjectivity--in the establishment of novelistic discourse. She shows how Ovid's Heroides explore the discourse of epistolarity in a way that exerted a lasting effect on Italian, French, and Spanish works of t
