Motherhood and the Other

Fashioning Female Power in Flavian Epic

AvAntony Augoustakis

Inbunden, Engelska, 2010

Del i serien Oxford Studies in Classical Literature and Gender Theory

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Beskrivning

This is the first book-length study to reconstruct the role of women in the epic poems of the Flavian period of Latin literature. Antony Augoustakis examines the role of female characters from the perspective of Julia Kristeva's theories on foreign otherness and motherhood to underscore the on-going negotiation between same and other in the Roman literary imagination as a telling reflection on the construction of Roman identity and of gender and cultural hierarchies.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2010-07-22
Mått:144 x 223 x 27 mm
Vikt:530 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Oxford Studies in Classical Literature and Gender Theory
Antal sidor:336
Förlag:OUP OXFORD
ISBN:9780199584413

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Genusvetenskap inom Samhälle och politik
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a welcome addition to earlier studies of gender in Roman epic

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction: Other and same: Female presence in Flavian epic ; 1. Mourning endless: Female otherness in Statius' Thebaid ; 2. Defining the other: From altera patria to tellus mater in Silius Italicus' Punica ; 3. Comes ultima fati: Regulus' encounter with Marcia's otherness in Punica 6 ; 4. Playing the same: Roman and non-Roman mothers in the Punica ; Epilogue: Virgins and (M)others: Appropriations of same and other in Flavian Rome