Feminine Rhetorical Culture: Tudor Adaptations of Ovid's Heroides (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780820405322)

Although fictional characters do not create their own speech, the illusion that they do is often crucial to a reader's appreciation of a literary text. Feminine Rhetorical Culture examines the development of the illusion that literary characters speak through the reader's appreciation of a metaphorical connection between speech, sexuality, and morality. The book focuses on nominally feminine speech in the works of three male writers: Ovid, in the HEROIDES, George Turberville, in his TRANSLATION OF OVID'S Heroides, and Michael Drayton, in ENGLAND'S HEROICAL EPISTLES. In the intersection of their adaptations of culture and language, they mediate and qualify cultural perspectives about feminine speech and relationship between men and women.

Author: Greenhut
ISBN-10: 0820405329
ISBN-13: 9780820405322
Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi
Language: English
Published: 08/01/1988
Pages: 213
Format: Hardcover