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Women of substance in Homeric epic :

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0191865265

(Number (ISBN

0192560794

(Number (ISBN

9780191865268

(Number (ISBN

9780192560797

Erroneous ISBN

0198826303

Erroneous ISBN

9780198826309

Title Proper

Women of substance in Homeric epic :

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[Book]

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objects, gender, agency /

First Statement of Responsibility

Lilah Grace Canevaro.

Edition Statement

First edition.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Oxford :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Oxford University Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2018.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

1 online resource.

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Text of Note

Introduction : the proggy mat -- How far are we from a hot bath? -- The politics of objects -- Object-oriented Odysseus -- Beyond the veil -- Uncontainable things -- Epilogue : revealing garments.

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Text of Note

Women in Greek epic are treated as objects, as commodities to be exchanged in marriage or as the spoils of warfare. However, women also use objects to negotiate their own agency, subverting the male viewpoint by using the very form they themselves are thought by men to embody. Female objects in Homer can be symbolically significant and powerfully characterizing. They can be tools of recognition and identification. They can pause narrative and be used agonistically. They can send messages and be vessels for memory. This book brings together Gender Theory and the burgeoning field of New Materialisms, combining an approach predicated on the idea of the woman as object with one which questions the very distinction between subject and object. This productive tension leads us to decentre the male subject - and to put centre stage not only the woman as object but also the agency of women and objects. Homeric women are shown to be not only objectified but also well-versed users of objects. This is something that Homer portrays clearly, that Odysseus understands - but that has often escaped many other men, from Odysseus' alter ego Aethon in Odyssey 19 to modern experts on Homeric epic.

International Standard Book Number

0198826303

Homer-- Criticism and interpretation.

Homer.

Greek poetry-- History and criticism.

Women in literature.

Greek poetry.

LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical.

Women in literature.

LIT-- 004190

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Canevaro, Lilah Grace

Date of Transaction

20200822092652.0

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