A Penelopean Poetics

Reweaving the Feminine in Homer's Odyssey

Nonfiction, History, Reference
Cover of the book A Penelopean Poetics by Barbara Clayton, Lexington Books
View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart
Author: Barbara Clayton ISBN: 9780739158746
Publisher: Lexington Books Publication: January 29, 2004
Imprint: Lexington Books Language: English
Author: Barbara Clayton
ISBN: 9780739158746
Publisher: Lexington Books
Publication: January 29, 2004
Imprint: Lexington Books
Language: English

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.

View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart

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.

More books from Lexington Books

Cover of the book Tempered in the Revolutionary Furnace by Barbara Clayton
Cover of the book Understanding America's Gun Culture by Barbara Clayton
Cover of the book Civilizations and World Order by Barbara Clayton
Cover of the book Zones of Twilight by Barbara Clayton
Cover of the book The Rhetoric of American Civil Religion by Barbara Clayton
Cover of the book Christian Physicalism? by Barbara Clayton
Cover of the book Culture and National Security in the Americas by Barbara Clayton
Cover of the book I Could Not Call Her Mother by Barbara Clayton
Cover of the book Sexual Violence in the Argentinean Crimes against Humanity Trials by Barbara Clayton
Cover of the book Managing Migration by Barbara Clayton
Cover of the book Imagining Iran by Barbara Clayton
Cover of the book Neighborhood Change and Neighborhood Action by Barbara Clayton
Cover of the book Linda Hogan and Contemporary Taiwanese Writers by Barbara Clayton
Cover of the book Intellectuals and the Communist Idea by Barbara Clayton
Cover of the book In Pursuit of Religious Freedom by Barbara Clayton
We use our own "cookies" and third party cookies to improve services and to see statistical information. By using this website, you agree to our Privacy Policy