A Penelopean Poetics : Reweaving the Feminine in Homer's Odyssey
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Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
Greek Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches
ISBN-10
0739107224
ISBN-13
9780739107225
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Imprint
Lexington Books
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jan 29th, 2004
Print length
152 Pages
Weight
386 grams
Dimensions
23.50 x 16.30 x 1.80 cms
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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.
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.
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