Penelopean Poetics

Reweaving the Feminine in Homer's Odyssey

AvBarbara Clayton

Inbunden, Engelska, 2004

Del i serien Greek Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches

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Beskrivning

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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2004-01-29
Mått:163 x 235 x 18 mm
Vikt:372 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Greek Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches
Antal sidor:152
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN:9780739107225

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

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In A Penelopean Poetics, Barbara Clayton defines the true texture of Homer's Odyssey. Carefully attending to the warp and woof of recent scholarship on Greek epic and oral poetry as well as recent psychoanalytic and feminist criticism, Clayton beautifully and simply identifies precisely those threads in the weave of the poem that are most Penelopean in their subtle cunning. In her surprising yet persuasive new reading, Odysseus and Homer emerge as most themselves when they are most like Penelope.

Innehållsförteckning

Chapter 1 Not the Iliad: Reconsidering a Gendered Approach to the OdysseyChapter 2 Unweaving to Reweave: Poetry and ProcessChapter 3 Reweaving Identities: Odysseus' Lies and the Tale of the ScarChapter 4 Weaver and Artist: Surveying a Penelope TraditionChapter 5 Conclusion