| A Penelopean Poetics: Reweaving the Feminine in Homer's Odyssey Contributor(s): Clayton, Barbara (Author) |
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ISBN: 0739107224 ISBN-13: 9780739107225 Publisher: Lexington Books OUR PRICE: $128.70 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: January 2004 Annotation: A Penelopean Poetics looks at the relationship between gender ideology and the self-referential poetics fo the Odyssey through the figure of Penelope. Her poetics become a discursive thread through which different feminine voices can realize their resistant capacities. Author, Barbara Clayton, informs discussions in the classics, gender studies, and literary criticism. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Reference - History | Ancient - Greece |
| Dewey: 883.01 |
| LCCN: 2003060463 |
| Series: Greek Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches |
| Physical Information: 0.76" H x 6.24" W x 9.14" (0.84 lbs) 152 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - Ancient (To 499 A.D.) - Cultural Region - Greece |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |