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Subject(s)

• Feminism [Browse]
• Historicism [Browse]
• Classical literature [Browse]
• English literature—Early modern, 1500-1700 [Browse]
• Sex role in literature [Browse]
• Irigaray, Luce [Browse]

Related name

• Krier, Theresa M., 1953- [Browse]
• Harvey, Elizabeth D. [Browse]

Series

• Routledge studies in Renaissance literature and culture. [More in this series]
• Routledge studies in Renaissance literature and culture ; 4 [More in this series]

Summary note

The essays in this groundbreaking collection stage conversations between the thought of the controversial feminist philosopher, linguist and psychoanalyst Luce Irigaray and premodern writers, ranging from Empedocles and Homer, to Shakespeare, Spenser and Donne. They explore both the pre-Enlightenment roots of Luce Irigaray's thought, and the impact that her writings have had on our understanding of ancient, medieval and Renaissance culture.Luce Irigaray has been a major figure in Anglo-American literary theory, philosophy and gender studies ever since her germinal works, Speculum

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Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (p. [173]-189) and index.

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Language note

English

Contents

• Luce Irigaray and Premodern Culture: Thresholds of history; Copyright; Contents; List of illustrations; Notes on contributors; Acknowledgments; 1 Future anteriors: Luce Irigaray's transmutations of the past; 2 Mère marine: narrative and natality in Homer and Virgil; 3 What does Matter want? Irigaray, Plotinus, and the human condition; 4 Coming into the word: Desdemona's story; 5 "Mutuall elements": Irigaray's Donne; 6 Spenser's coastal unconscious; 7 "That glorious slit": Irigaray and the medieval devotion to Christ's side wound
• 8 Early modern blazons and the rhetoric of wonder: turning towards an ethics of sexual difference9 Gynephobia and culture change: an Irigarayan just-so story; 10 The commodities dance: exchange and escape in Irigaray's "Quand nos lèvres se parlent" and Catherine Des Roches's "Dialogue d'Iris et Pasithée"; 11 Afterword; Bibliography; Works by Luce Irigaray; Index

ISBN

• 1-134-35843-1
• 1-134-35844-X
• 1-280-40294-6
• 0-203-35654-3

OCLC

• 57298111
• 55600619

Doi

• 10.4324/9780203356548

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