Nescioquid maius: Gender, Genre, and the Repetitions of Ovid’s Medea
This essay examines Ovid’s repeated use of the character and story of Medea, focusing on the phenomenon of repetition itself. Her appearances in Ovid’s poetry are not only self-referential but also metatextual, allowing Ovid to explore and to comment upon the generic parameters of his work and upon...
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doaj-fa3d1700c8e44451aae1b8c0f8af01202021-10-02T14:01:09ZdeuUniversité Lille-3Dictynna1969-42022019-12-0116Nescioquid maius: Gender, Genre, and the Repetitions of Ovid’s MedeaBarbara W. BoydThis essay examines Ovid’s repeated use of the character and story of Medea, focusing on the phenomenon of repetition itself. Her appearances in Ovid’s poetry are not only self-referential but also metatextual, allowing Ovid to explore and to comment upon the generic parameters of his work and upon the possibility of creating something radically new.http://journals.openedition.org/dictynna/1962Medearepetitioninfanticidegendergenre |
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Nescioquid maius: Gender, Genre, and the Repetitions of Ovid’s Medea |
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Nescioquid maius: Gender, Genre, and the Repetitions of Ovid’s Medea |
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Nescioquid maius: Gender, Genre, and the Repetitions of Ovid’s Medea |
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nescioquid maius: gender, genre, and the repetitions of ovid’s medea |
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Université Lille-3 |
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Dictynna |
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1969-4202 |
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This essay examines Ovid’s repeated use of the character and story of Medea, focusing on the phenomenon of repetition itself. Her appearances in Ovid’s poetry are not only self-referential but also metatextual, allowing Ovid to explore and to comment upon the generic parameters of his work and upon the possibility of creating something radically new. |
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