Autore	Downes Jeremy M. <1961->
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Newark, : University of Delware Press, 2010
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (350 p.)
Disciplina	811/.032099287
Soggetto topico	Epic poetry - History and criticism Poetry - Women authors - History and criticism Women in literature
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	0-87413-512-5
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910456944903321

Autore	Downes Jeremy M. <1961->
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Newark, : University of Delware Press, 2010
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (350 p.)
Disciplina	811/.032099287
Soggetto topico	Epic poetry - History and criticism Poetry - Women authors - History and criticism Women in literature
ISBN	0-87413-512-5
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	For love and glory, by way of a preface -- Introduction -- Historical overview -- The sympathetic magic of genre : hybrids, creoles, mongrels, and contagions -- Laundry : cyclical mythic structure in women's epic -- Laundry, myth , and modernity -- Psyche : internalized mythic structure in women's epic -- Oral culture and women's performance -- Making it up out of whole cloth : textual textiles and textilist readings of epic -- Invisible child : anonymous was a woman and other stories -- Tomboy epic : epics of girlhood -- Fathers' daughters : against the fathers' amnesia -- My mother, myself : symbiotic recursions in women's epic -- Exits and entrances : monumental time in womans' epic -- Ironing things out : cyclical timing in women's epic -- My woman-naming roar : feminist discourse and women's epic -- Divine machinery : the gods and religious thought in women's epic -- It gets hard core : materialist girls -- Mowing the lawn : democratic, inclusive goals in women's epic -- Small dynasties : the local, familial, and global in women's epic -- The heroic text : poetry as heroic action.
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910780952503321