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Paperback. Condizione: New. A coy tease, enchantress, adulteress, irresponsible mother, hard-hearted wife-such are the possible images of Penelope that Homer playfully presents to listeners and readers of the Odyssey, and that his narration ultimately contradicts or fails to confirm. In this updated and expanded second edition of Regarding Penelope, Nancy Felson explores the relationship between Homer's construction of Penelope and his more general approach to poetic production and reception.Felson begins by considering Penelope as an object of male gazes (those of Telemachus, Odysseus, the suitors, and Agamemnon's ghost) and as a subject acting from her own desire. Focusing on how the audience might try to predict Penelope's fate when confronted with the different ways the male characters envision her, she develops the notion of "possible plots" as structures in the poem that initiate the plots Penelope actually plays out. She then argues that Homer's manipulation of Penelope's character maintains the narrative fluidity and the dynamics of the Odyssey and reveals how the oral performance of the poem teases and captivates its audience, just as Penelope and Odysseus entrap each other in their courtship dance. Homer, Felson further explains, exploits the similarities between the poetic and erotic domains, often using similar terminology to describe them.…

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Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. A coy tease, enchantress, adulteress, irresponsible mother, hard-hearted wife-such are the possible images of Penelope that Homer playfully presents to listeners and readers of the Odyssey, and that his narration ultimately contradicts or fails to confirm. In this updated and expanded second edition of Regarding Penelope, Nancy Felson explores the relationship between Homer's construction of Penelope and his more general approach to poetic production and reception. Felson begins by considering Penelope as an object of male gazes (those of Telemachus, Odysseus, the suitors, and Agamemnon's ghost) and as a subject acting from her own desire. Focusing on how the audience might try to predict Penelope's fate when confronted with the different ways the male characters envision her, she develops the notion of "possible plots" as structures in the poem that initiate the plots Penelope actually plays out. She then argues that Homer's manipulation of Penelope's character maintains the narrative fluidity and the dynamics of the Odyssey and reveals how the oral performance of the poem teases and captivates its audience, just as Penelope and Odysseus entrap each other in their courtship dance. Homer, Felson further explains, exploits the similarities between the poetic and erotic domains, often using similar terminology to describe them. In this updated and expanded second edition of Regarding Penelope, Nancy Felson explores the relationship between Homers construction of Penelope and his more general approach to poetic production and reception. Felson considers Penelope as an object of male gazes and as a subject acting from her own desire. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condizione: New. A coy tease, enchantress, adulteress, irresponsible mother, hard-hearted wife-such are the possible images of Penelope that Homer playfully presents to listeners and readers of the Odyssey, and that his narration ultimately contradicts or fails to confirm. In this updated and expanded second edition of Regarding Penelope, Nancy Felson explores the relationship between Homer's construction of Penelope and his more general approach to poetic production and reception.Felson begins by considering Penelope as an object of male gazes (those of Telemachus, Odysseus, the suitors, and Agamemnon's ghost) and as a subject acting from her own desire. Focusing on how the audience might try to predict Penelope's fate when confronted with the different ways the male characters envision her, she develops the notion of "possible plots" as structures in the poem that initiate the plots Penelope actually plays out. She then argues that Homer's manipulation of Penelope's character maintains the narrative fluidity and the dynamics of the Odyssey and reveals how the oral performance of the poem teases and captivates its audience, just as Penelope and Odysseus entrap each other in their courtship dance. Homer, Felson further explains, exploits the similarities between the poetic and erotic domains, often using similar terminology to describe them.…

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Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. Minor Browning to wraps. Scholar's blindstamp to titlepage (Robert Brown).; Contents: Introduction: Why Classics and Semiotics? RUBIN, NANCY FELSON; Texts and Unrefracted Facts: Philology, Hermeneutics and Semiotics PERADOTTO, JOHN; Sêma and Nóesis: Some Illustrations NAGY, GREGORY; The Excavation of Concepts: Commentary on Peradotto and Nagy HERZFELD, MICHAEL; Language and the Female in Early Greek Thought BERGREN, ANN L. T. ; The Dream of a World Without Women: Poetics and the Circles of Order in the "Theogony" Prooemium ARTHUR, MARYLIN B. ; Sexuality, Semiosis and Binarism: A Narratological Comment on Bergren and Arthur BAL, MIEKE; Meleager and Odysseus: A Structural and Cultural Study of the Greek Hunting-Maturation Myth RUBIN, NANCY FELSON & SALE, WILLIAM MERRITT; Greek Myth as a Semiotic and Structural System and the Problem of Tragedy SEGAL, CHARLES; Of Motifemes and Megatexts: Comment on Rubin/Sale and Segal MOST, GLENN W. ; Rereading the "Republic" ROSENSTOCK, BRUCE; A Socio-Psychological and Semiotic Analysis of Epicurus' Portrait FRISCHER, BERNARD; Comment on Rosenstock and Frischer SAVAN, DAVID Books Received (p. 277); Arethusa. Vol. 16, No. 1 & 2, Spring and Fall 1983; 277 pages. …

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good-. No Dust Jacket. Some soiling to foreedges of textblock. Browning to spine and part of wraps.; Contents: Introduction: Why Classics and Semiotics? RUBIN, NANCY FELSON; Texts and Unrefracted Facts: Philology, Hermeneutics and Semiotics PERADOTTO, JOHN; Sêma and Nóesis: Some Illustrations NAGY, GREGORY; The Excavation of Concepts: Commentary on Peradotto and Nagy HERZFELD, MICHAEL; Language and the Female in Early Greek Thought BERGREN, ANN L. T. ; The Dream of a World Without Women: Poetics and the Circles of Order in the "Theogony" Prooemium ARTHUR, MARYLIN B. ; Sexuality, Semiosis and Binarism: A Narratological Comment on Bergren and Arthur BAL, MIEKE; Meleager and Odysseus: A Structural and Cultural Study of the Greek Hunting-Maturation Myth RUBIN, NANCY FELSON & SALE, WILLIAM MERRITT; Greek Myth as a Semiotic and Structural System and the Problem of Tragedy SEGAL, CHARLES; Of Motifemes and Megatexts: Comment on Rubin/Sale and Segal MOST, GLENN W. ; Rereading the "Republic" ROSENSTOCK, BRUCE; A Socio-Psychological and Semiotic Analysis of Epicurus' Portrait FRISCHER, BERNARD; Comment on Rosenstock and Frischer SAVAN, DAVID Books Received (p. 277); Arethusa. Vol. 16, No. 1 & 2, Spring and Fall 1983; 277 pages.…

Softcover. Condizione: Very Good+. Underlining in pencil to a few pages.; Greek Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 384 pages.