The female Homer : an exploration of women's epic poetry / Jeremy M. Downes.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Downes, Jeremy M., 1961-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Epic poetry--History and criticism.

Epic poetry.

Poetry--Women authors--History and criticism.

Poetry.

Women in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (350 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Newark : University of Delware Press, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-87413-512-5

OCLC:

762561697