Penelope's Renown
Author : Marylin A. Katz
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Page : 235 pages
File Size : 19,42 MB
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ISBN : 9780608201450
Author : Marylin A. Katz
Publisher :
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 19,42 MB
Release :
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ISBN : 9780608201450
Author : Marylin A. Katz
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 14,4 MB
Release : 2014-07-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 140086187X
Noted for her contradictory words and actions, Penelope has been a problematic character for critics of the Odyssey, many of whom turn to psychological explanations to account for her behavior. In a fresh approach to the problem, Marylin Katz links Penelope closely with the strategies that govern the overall design of the narrative. By examining its apparent inconsistencies and its deferral of truth and closure, she shows how Penelope represents the indeterminacy that is characteristic of the narrative as a whole. Katz argues that the controlling narrative device of the poem is the paradigm of Agamemnon's fateful return from the Trojan War, narrated in the opening lines of the Odyssey. This story operates not only as a point of reference for Odysseus' homecoming but also as an alternative plot, and the danger that Penelope will betray Odysseus as Clytemnestra did Agamemnon is kept alive throughout the first half of the poem. Once Odysseus reaches Ithaca, however, the paradigm of Helen's faithlessness substitutes for that of Clytemnestra. The narrative structure of the Odyssey is thus based upon an intratextual revision of its own paradigm, through which the surface meaning of Penelope's words and actions is undermined though never openly discredited. Originally published in 1991. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Author : Anne Gutman
Publisher : Cartwheel Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 19,67 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Bedtime
ISBN : 9780439673594
Penelope is cooking dinner and getting ready for bed. Children can pull the tabs and help Penelope flip a chocolate pancake, scrub in the bathtub, and read a bedtime story.
Author : Barbara Clayton
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 27,75 MB
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 9780739107232
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.
Author : Alex Long
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 18,46 MB
Release : 2019-06-13
Category : History
ISBN : 1107086590
Provides an accessible account of the variety and subtlety of Greek and Roman philosophy of death, from Homer to Marcus Aurelius.
Author : Andrew James Johnston
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 37,41 MB
Release : 2016-02-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1784996173
This collection of essays explores medieval and early modern Troilus-texts from Chaucer to Shakespeare. The contributions show how medieval and early modern fictions of Troy use love and other emotions as a means of approaching the problem of tradition. As these texts reflect on their own traditionality, they highlight both the affective nature of temporality and the role of affect in scrutinising tradition itself. Focusing on a specific textual lineage that bridges the conventional period boundaries, the collection participates in an exchange between medievalists and early modernists that seeks to generate a dialogic encounter between the periods with the aim of further dismantling the rigid notions of chronology and periodisation that have kept medieval and early modern scholarship apart.
Author : Barbara DellAbate-Çelebi
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 34,60 MB
Release : 2016-04-04
Category : Education
ISBN : 1609620836
A feminist perspective of the myth of Penelope in Annie Leclerc's Toi, Pénélope, Margaret Atwood's The Penelopiad and Silvana La Spina's Penelope
Author : Lillian Eileen Doherty
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 41,76 MB
Release : 1995
Category : History
ISBN : 9780472105977
A feminist critique of the Odyssey
Author : Emma Bridges
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 16,27 MB
Release : 2023-09-21
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ISBN : 0198843526
Epic poetry and tragic drama provide us with some of richest ancient Greek depictions of women who are married to soldiers. In tales of the Trojan War, as told by Homer, Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, we encounter these mythical warriors' wives: Penelope, isolated but resourceful as she awaits the return of Odysseus after his lengthy absence; the war widow Andromache, enslaved and displaced from her homeland after the fall of Troy; the unfaithful and murderous Clytemnestra; and Tecmessa, a war captive who witnesses her partner's breakdown and suicide in the aftermath of battle. Warriors' Wives compares the experiences of these mythical characters with those of contemporary military spouses. Emma Bridges traces aspects of the lives of warriors' wives--mythical and real, ancient and modern--from the moment of farewell, through periods of separation and reunion, to the often traumatic aftermath of war, to consider the emotional, psychological, and social impacts of life as a military spouse. By unearthing a wealth of contemporary evidence for the lives of the often silenced and unacknowledged partners of those who serve in the military, and by examining this alongside the ancient stories of warriors' wives, Warriors' Wives sheds fresh light on the experience of being married to the military.
Author : Ruby Blondell
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 49,31 MB
Release : 2015
Category : History
ISBN : 0190263539
Helen of Troy engages with the ancient origins of the persistent anxiety about female beauty, focusing on this key figure from ancient Greek culture in a way that both extends our understanding of that culture and provides a useful perspective for reconsidering aspects of our own.