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| Author(s): |
Cecilia Marcela Ugartemendia
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Master's Dissertation |
| Press: | São Paulo. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH/SBD) |
| Defense date: | 2016-11-07 |
| Examining board members: |
Alexandre Pinheiro Hasegawa;
João Angelo Oliva Neto;
Paulo Sérgio de Vasconcellos
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| Advisor: | Alexandre Pinheiro Hasegawa |
| Abstract | |
This research analyses the possible intratextual relation between the first fourteen epistles of Ovids Heroides. These relations allow the reader to understand them not only as unconnected monologues brought together under the form of epistles (Auhagen, 1999, p. 90), but also as collection of poems that have meaning when read in the light of the others. The relations emerge because of the heroines exemplary character, paradigmatic of a certain behavior. In the intratextual dialogue, the exemplarity enables the mutual configuration of the women and their epistles. Considering that Ovid himself, in the third book of his Ars, recommends to read his collection of epistles and that he also refers to these women as exempla of failure in the art of love, the whole collection can be understood as a series of exempla that complement the didactic purpose of the Ars amatoria. Because of their lack of ars amandi, most of the heroines fail in trying to convince their lovers to come back to them. Therefore, the reader receives the epistles as an exemplum of what should not be done and as a justification for the need of a praeceptor. The overlapping of the elegiac and the epistolary genres enables the letter to be an appropriate mean to convey an exemplum, due to the didactic features of both genres. (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 14/05067-9 - The exemplarity of abandonment: elegiac epistle and intratextuality in Heroides |
| Grantee: | Cecilia Marcela Ugartemendía |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Master |