A Penelopean Poetics: Reweaving the Feminine in Homer's Odyssey

by Barbara Clayton

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0739107232
• ISBN13: 9780739107232
• Release Date: February 2004
• Publisher: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Length: 156 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.1"