Fashioning the feminine in the Greek novel / Katharine Haynes.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Haynes, Katharine, 1971-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Greek fiction--History and criticism.

Greek fiction.

Women and literature--Greece.

Women and literature.

Femininity in literature.

Women in literature.

Physical Description:

viii, 214 p.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The Greek novel occupies a special place in the debate on gender in antiquity, forcing us to ask why the female protagonists are such strong and positive characters. This book rejects the hypothesis of a largely female readership, and also sees a problem in ascribing this pattern to the reflection of a blanket improvement in the status of women. Katharine Haynes shows that the strong heroines are best understood not as an undistorted mirror on an improved social reality, but as a type of 'constructed feminine'. The book offers a wealth of fascinating insights into the kaleidoscopic world of male and female in the Greek novel, which will inform and illuminate the reader whatever the text being studied. The related issues of ethnicity and self-definition also explored will be of interest for all those working on ancient fiction or the culture of the Second Sophistic.

Contents:

chapter 1 READING THE FEMININE

Framing the questions

chapter 2 CONTEXTUALISING THE FEMININE

Finding a reference point putting the feminine in context

chapter 3 HEROINES

Negotiating the theoretical minefield

chapter 4 HEROES

Measuring masculinity ideologically invested assessments

chapter 5 MINOR FEMALE CHARACTERS

Patterning femininity

chapter 6 MINOR MALE CHARACTERS

Constructing masculinity

chapter 7 TELOS

Love and marriage.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-134-50557-4

1-134-50558-2

0-415-26210-0

1-280-06924-4

0-203-16721-X

9780203167212

OCLC:

57196996