A Penelopean Poetics

Reweaving the Feminine in Homer's Odyssey

Barbara Clayton (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

152 Seiten

2004
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-0-7391-0722-5 (ISBN)

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A Penelopean Poetics looks at the relationship between gender ideology and the self-referential poetics of the Odyssey through the figure of Penelope. She is a cunning story-teller; her repeated reweavings of Laertes' shroud a figurative replication of the process of oral poetic composition itself. Penelope's web is thus a discourse and it can be construed specifically as feminine. Her gendered poetics celebrates process, multiplicity, and ambiguity and it resists phallocentric discourse by undermining stable and fixed meanings. Penelope's poetics become a discursive thread through which different feminine voices can realize their resistant capacities. Author Barbara Clayton's work contributes to discussions in the classics as well as literary criticism, sex and gender studies, and women's studies.

Barbara Clayton teaches in the Classics Department and Introduction to the Humanities Program at Stanford University.

Chapter 1 Not the Iliad: Reconsidering a Gendered Approach to the Odyssey
Chapter 2 Unweaving to Reweave: Poetry and Process
Chapter 3 Reweaving Identities: Odysseus' Lies and the Tale of the Scar
Chapter 4 Weaver and Artist: Surveying a Penelope Tradition
Chapter 5 Conclusion

Erscheint lt. Verlag	29.1.2004
Reihe/Serie	Greek Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches
Sprache	englisch
Maße	163 x 235 mm
Gewicht	372 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Lyrik / Gedichte
	Sonstiges ► Geschenkbücher
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	0-7391-0722-4 / 0739107224
ISBN-13	978-0-7391-0722-5 / 9780739107225
Zustand	Neuware