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OverviewWomen in Greek epic are treated as objects, as commodities to be exchanged in marriage or as the spoils of warfare. However, women in Homeric epic also use objects to negotiate their own agency, subverting the male viewpoint by utilizing on their own terms the very form they themselves are thought by men to embody. Such female objects can transcend their physical limitations and be both symbolically significant and powerfully characterizing. They can be tools of recognition and identification. They can pause narrative and be used agonistically. They can send messages and be vessels for memory.Women of Substance in Homeric Epic offers a new and insightful approach to the Iliad and Odyssey, bringing together Gender Theory and the burgeoning field of New Materialisms, new to classical studies, and thereby combining an approach predicated on the idea of the woman as object with one which questions the very distinction between subject and object. This productive tension leads us to decentre the male subject and to put centre stage not only the woman as object but also the agency of women and objects. The volume comes at a turning point in the gendering of Homeric studies, with the publication of the first English translations by women of the Iliad in 2015 and the Odyssey in 2017, by Caroline Alexander and Emily Wilson respectively. It makes a significant contribution to scholarship by demonstrating that women in Homeric epic are not only objectified, but are also well-versed users of objects; this is something that Homer portrays clearly, that Odysseus understands, but that has often escaped many other men, from Odysseus' alter ego Aethon in Odyssey 19 to modern experts on Homeric epic. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Lilah Grace Canevaro (Lecturer in Greek, Lecturer in Greek, University of Edinburgh)Publisher: Oxford University Press Imprint: Oxford University Press Dimensions: Width: 14.50cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.40cm Weight: 0.538kg ISBN: 9780198826309ISBN 10: 0198826303 Pages: 332 Publication Date: 03 October 2018 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Tertiary & Higher Education , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsFrontmatter List of Illustrations Abbreviations 0: Introduction: The Proggy Mat 1: How Far Are We from a Hot Bath? 1.1: Women, Objects, Things 1.2: Society and Sandals 1.3: The Memory of Objects 2: The Politics of Objects 2.1: Words and Weaving 2.2: Stuck in the Middle with You 2.3: Managing the House, Managing the Narrative 2.4: Gathering the Threads 3: Object-Oriented Odysseus 3.1: Odysseus in the Middle 3.2: Tying the Knot 3.3: All Hands on Deck 3.4: Here's One I Made Earlier 4: Beyond the Veil 4.1: Uprights and Subversions 4.2: Mortality and Material Memory 4.3: When the Gods Move Furniture 4.4: Architectural Anxieties 5: Uncontainable Things 5.1: When Is a Door Not a Door? 5.2: Cataloguing Women and Objects 6: Epilogue: Revealing Garments Endmatter Bibliography IndexReviewsThis book is a literary study about women using, rather than merely being, objects to influence and making their own contribution to the action of the Iliad and Odyssey as well as that of the Hesiodic corpus ... The book contains an extensive bibliography and indices of passages cited and subjects as well as a small number of black and white illustrations. All Greek is translated so it is accessible to non-Greek readers, but it will remain chiefly of interest to an academic audience with a specialist interest in Homeric poetry. * Claire Gruzelier, Classics for All * Author InformationLilah Grace Canevaro is Lecturer in Greek at the University of Edinburgh. She has been a Leverhulme Fellow in Edinburgh and a Humboldt Fellow in Heidelberg, and gained her PhD at Durham University in 2012. She is the author of Hesiod's Works and Days: How to Teach Self-Sufficiency (OUP, 2015) and co-editor with Paola Bassino and Barbara Graziosi of Conflict and Consensus in Early Greek Hexameter Poetry (CUP, 2017). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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