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Subject(s)

• Pandora (Greek mythological character)—In literature [Browse]
• Femininity in literature [Browse]
• Classical literature—History and criticism [Browse]

Series

Wisconsin studies in classics. [More in this series]

Summary note

"The notorious image of Pandora haunts mythology. A woman created as a disastrous gift for humanity, 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. In this compelling study, Vered Lev Kenaan offers a radical revision of the Greek myth of the first woman by showing 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 shows the centrality of this iconic figure among the poetics of the cosmological and didactic epic, the Platonic dialogue, the love elegy, and the ancient novel."--BOOK JACKET.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (p. 223-236) and index.

Contents

• 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.

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ISBN

• 0299224104 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 9780299224103 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN

2007011821

OCLC

132681401

RCP

C - S

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