Penelopean Poetics : Reweaving the Feminine in Homer's Odyssey

Name: Penelopean Poetics
Brand: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
SKU: 9780739107232
Price: 8400 KES
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ISBN: 9780739107232

by Barbara Clayton

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Format Paperback / softback

Book Series Greek Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches

ISBN-10 0739107232

ISBN-13 9780739107232

Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

Imprint Lexington Books

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Feb 10th, 2004

Print length 156 Pages

Weight 246 grams

Dimensions 22.80 x 15.10 x 1.30 cms

Product Classification: Poetry Poetry / Poems Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval Literary studies: classical, early & medieval Literary studies: poetry & poets Literary studies: poetry and poets Miscellaneous items Stationery and miscellaneous items

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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.

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