LEADER 01288nam 22003374a 4500001 99125312175506421 005 20200520144314.0 006 m o d | 007 cr#cn||||||||| 008 070412s2008 wiu ob s001 0 eng c 020 1-282-59476-1 020 9786612594762 020 0-299-22413-9 024 7 2027/heb08799 |2hdl 035 (CKB)2520000000006588 035 (SSID)ssj0000424840 035 (PQKBManifestationID)11287872 035 (PQKBTitleCode)TC0000424840 035 (PQKBWorkID)10474781 035 (PQKB)11754461 035 (OCoLC)608692471 035 (MdBmJHUP)muse12009 035 (Au-PeEL)EBL3444970 035 (CaPaEBR)ebr10367471 035 (CaONFJC)MIL259476 035 (MiAaPQ)EBC3444970 035 (dli)HEB08799 035 (MiU)MIU01000000000000011661696 035 (EXLCZ)992520000000006588 040 MiAaPQ |beng |erda |epn |cMiAaPQ |dMiAaPQ 041 eng 050 4 PN57.P255 |bK46 2008 082 0 880.9/351 |222 090 PN57.P255 |b(INTERNET) 100 1 Lev Kenaan, Vered. 245 10 Pandora's senses : |bthe feminine character of the ancient text / |cVered Lev Kenaan. 250 First edition. 260 Madison, Wis. : |bUniversity of Wisconsin Press, |cc2008. 300 1 online resource (253 pages) 336 text |btxt |2rdacontent 337 computer |bc |2rdamedia 338 online resource |bcr |2rdacarrier 490 1 Wisconsin studies in classics 500 Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 546 English 520 The notorious image of Pandora haunts mythology: a woman created as punishment for the crimes of man, she is the bearer of hope yet also responsible for the earth's desolation. She binds together perpetuating dichotomies that underlie the most fundamental aspects of the Western canon: beauty and evil, body and soul, depth and superficiality, truth and lie. Speaking in multiplicity, Pandora emerges as the first sign of female complexity. In this compelling study, Vered Lev Kenaan offers a radical revision of the Greek myth of the first woman. She argues that Pandora leaves a decisive mark on ancient poetics and shows that we can unravel the profound impact of Pandora's image once we recognize that Pandora embodies the very idea of the ancient literary text. Locating the myth of the first woman right at the heart of feminist interrogation of gender and textuality, Pandora's Senses moves beyond a feminist critique of masculine hegemony and shows the centrality of this iconic figure among the poetics of such central genres as the cosmological and didactic epic, the Platonic dialogue, the love elegy, and the ancient novel. Pandora's Senses innovates our understanding of gender as a critical lens through which to view ancient literature. 505 0 Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1. Pandora's Light -- Pandora, Once Again -- The Genealogy of Pandora -- Misogynist Responses to Pandora -- Pandora's Wonder -- 2. Pandora and the Myth of Otherness -- From Mount Helicon to a Poetics of Otherness -- The Fantasy of Symbiosis between Men and Gods -- Ambiguities of Identity: The Case of Brothers -- The Loss of Sameness and the Birth of Eros -- The Didactic Imperative: Learn the Other -- 3. The Socratic Pandora -- Woman is the Ideal Listener -- The Naked Truth and the Adorned Lie -- The Seductions of Pandora -- Socrates and Theodote -- Socrates and Pandora -- 4. Pandora's Voice and the Emergence of Ovid's Poetic Persona -- Pandora's Voice -- From the Effeminate Elegy to the Feminine Text -- The Erotodidactic Persona -- Sappho's Lasciviousness -- The Lascivious Text -- 5. Feminine Subjectivity and the Self-Contradicting Text -- Ars and Remedia: Metadiscourse, Language Games, and the Problem of Sincerity -- The Palinodic Structure -- Palinode and Narrative -- Pandora's Lie -- A Girl's Rape and the Birth of Feminine Subjectivity -- 6. Pandora's Tears -- Feminine Weaving: Text, Textile, Body, Pain -- Helen's Web -- Listening Like a Woman: Penelope's Tears -- Odysseus Weeps Like a Woman -- Xanthippe's Tears -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index. 504 Includes bibliographical references (p. 223-236) and index. 650 0 Pandora (Greek mythology) in literature. 650 0 Femininity in literature. 650 0 Classical literature |xHistory and criticism. 776 |z0-299-22410-4 830 0 Wisconsin studies in classics. 906 BOOK