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Westerhold's approach leads straight to analysis of the dynamic nature of generic categories and codes in Ovid's poetry. Thus do elegy and epic interact. The performativity of sex, gender, and kinship roles reveals the importance of the normative and abject this powerful poetry elaborates. * Choice * In her thought-provoking book, Jessica Westerhold cexplores how the 'tragic' figures of Phaedra and Medea, along with their reception(s) in Ovidian poetry, exemplify forms of (gender) abjection that places them beyond social norms. This monograph is a very welcome addition to the study of generic code-switching and gender dynamics within Ovidian poetry. * Bryn Mawr Classical Review *

Westerhold's approach leads straight to analysis of the dynamic nature of generic categories and codes in Ovid's poetry. Thus do elegy and epic interact. The performativity of sex, gender, and kinship roles reveals the importance of the normative and abject this powerful poetry elaborates. (Choice) In her thought-provoking book, Jessica Westerhold cexplores how the 'tragic' figures of Phaedra and Medea, along with their reception(s) in Ovidian poetry, exemplify forms of (gender) abjection that places them beyond social norms. This monograph is a very welcome addition to the study of generic code-switching and gender dynamics within Ovidian poetry. (Bryn Mawr Classical Review)

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Jessica A. Westerhold is Assistant Professor of Classics at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. She has published articles on Ovid's engagement with tragedy, gender, and the Latin poet Sulpicia.

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