Fashioning the feminine in the Greek novel / / Katharine Haynes
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| Autore: |
Haynes Katharine <1971->
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| Titolo: |
Fashioning the feminine in the Greek novel / / Katharine Haynes
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| Pubblicazione: | New York, : Routledge, 2003 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | viii, 214 p |
| Disciplina: | 883/.0109352042 |
| Soggetto topico: | Greek fiction - History and criticism |
| Women and literature - Greece | |
| Femininity in literature | |
| Women in literature | |
| Note generali: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | chapter 1 READING THE FEMININE -- Framing the questions -- chapter 2 CONTEXTUALISING THE FEMININE -- Finding a reference point putting the feminine in context -- chapter 3 HEROINES -- Negotiating the theoretical minefield -- chapter 4 HEROES -- Measuring masculinity ideologically invested assessments -- chapter 5 MINOR FEMALE CHARACTERS -- Patterning femininity -- chapter 6 MINOR MALE CHARACTERS -- Constructing masculinity -- chapter 7 TELOS -- Love and marriage. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | The Greek novel occupies a special place in the debate on gender in antiquity, forcing us to ask why the female protagonists are such strong and positive characters. This book rejects the hypothesis of a largely female readership, and also sees a problem in ascribing this pattern to the reflection of a blanket improvement in the status of women. Katharine Haynes shows that the strong heroines are best understood not as an undistorted mirror on an improved social reality, but as a type of 'constructed feminine'. The book offers a wealth of fascinating insights into the kaleidoscopic world of male and female in the Greek novel, which will inform and illuminate the reader whatever the text being studied. The related issues of ethnicity and self-definition also explored will be of interest for all those working on ancient fiction or the culture of the Second Sophistic. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Fashioning the feminine in the greek novel |
| ISBN: | 1-134-50557-4 |
| 1-134-50558-2 | |
| 0-415-26210-0 | |
| 1-280-06924-4 | |
| 0-203-16721-X | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910807670603321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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