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OverviewIn her 2007 poem cycle Niemands Frau, Barbara Kohler returns to Homer s Odyssey, not to retell it, but to take up some of the threads it has woven into the cultural tradition of the West and to unravel them, just as Penelope, the wife of the hero who called himself Nobody, unravelled each night the web she re-wove by day. Kohler s return to the Odyssey takes place under the sign of a grammatical shift, from er to sie, from the singular hero to a plurality of female voices Nausicaa, Circe, Calypso, Ino Leucothea, Helen and Penelope herself with implications for thinking about identity, power and knowledge, about gender and relationality, but also about the corporeality and multivocality which underlies the virtual reality of the printed text. The eight essays in this volume explore Kohler s iridescent poem cycle from a variety of different angles: its context in contemporary German refigurations of the classical; its engagement with Homer and the classical tradition; its contribution to feminist philosophy of the subject and a female dialectic of enlightenment; its incorporation of the voices of poetic predecessors; and the surprising alliance it uncovers between poetry and quantum theory. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Georgina PaulPublisher: Editions Rodopi Imprint: Editions Rodopi ISBN: 9781306315616ISBN 10: 1306315611 Pages: 237 Publication Date: 01 January 2013 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Electronic book text Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsReviewsAuthor InformationTab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |