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 | #2831812 in Books |  Barbara Clayton |  2004-02-20 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  8.22 x.46 x5.78l,.53 | File type: PDF | 152 pages

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||4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.| Weaving Genius|By Chris Howell|Clayton offers the most significant new interpretation of the Odyssey for the new century. Out of the shadows of maginality, Penelope emerges as a symbol of the most basic meaning of the poem. Using weaving as a metaphor, Clayton demonstrates that Penelope is no less important than Odysseus as a storyteller. Both deeply scholarly and accessible fo| |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 be

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 phallo...

You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.A Penelopean Poetics, Reweaving the Feminine in Homer's Odyssey   |  Barbara Clayton. I really enjoyed this book and have already told so many people about it!

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