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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



Table of Contents
*FrontMatter, pg. i*CONTENTS, pg. vii*ACKNOWLEDGMENTS, pg. ix*PROLOGUE: TWO THEORIES OF UTTERANCE, pg. 1*ONE. Victim as Artist-Epistulae Herodium, pg. 23*TWO. Exemplary Counterfeit-El Bursario, pg. 37*THREE. Voyeuristic Betrayal-Elegia di madonna Fiammetta, pg. 58*FOUR. Mediated Discourse-Historia de duobus amantibus, pg. 70*FIVE. Failed Eroticism-Siervo libre de amor, pg. 89*SIX. The Untranscendent Vision-Satira de felice e infelice vida, pg. 106*SEVEN. Etiological Subversion-Triste deleytacion, pg. 128*EIGHT. Pandered Words-Arnalte y Lucenda, pg. 145*NINE. Imprisoned Discourse-Carce! de amor, pg. 162*TEN. The Book as Galeotto-Grimalte y Gradissa, pg. 176*ELEVEN. Language and Incest-Grisel y Mirabella, pg. 191*EPILOGUE: Physical and Verbal Violence, pg. 211*NOTES, pg. 215*BIBLIOGRAPHY, pg. 255*INDEX, pg. 267

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      Publisher: Princeton University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 14/07/2014
      ISBN13: 9780691605685, 978-0691605685
      ISBN10: 0691605688
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      Description

      Book Synopsis

      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



      Table of Contents
      *FrontMatter, pg. i*CONTENTS, pg. vii*ACKNOWLEDGMENTS, pg. ix*PROLOGUE: TWO THEORIES OF UTTERANCE, pg. 1*ONE. Victim as Artist-Epistulae Herodium, pg. 23*TWO. Exemplary Counterfeit-El Bursario, pg. 37*THREE. Voyeuristic Betrayal-Elegia di madonna Fiammetta, pg. 58*FOUR. Mediated Discourse-Historia de duobus amantibus, pg. 70*FIVE. Failed Eroticism-Siervo libre de amor, pg. 89*SIX. The Untranscendent Vision-Satira de felice e infelice vida, pg. 106*SEVEN. Etiological Subversion-Triste deleytacion, pg. 128*EIGHT. Pandered Words-Arnalte y Lucenda, pg. 145*NINE. Imprisoned Discourse-Carce! de amor, pg. 162*TEN. The Book as Galeotto-Grimalte y Gradissa, pg. 176*ELEVEN. Language and Incest-Grisel y Mirabella, pg. 191*EPILOGUE: Physical and Verbal Violence, pg. 211*NOTES, pg. 215*BIBLIOGRAPHY, pg. 255*INDEX, pg. 267

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