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

Author/creator Downes, Jeremy M., 1961-
Format Electronic
Publication InfoNewark : University of Delaware Press,
Description350 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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Subjects
Epic poetry--History and criticism.
Poetry--Women authors. --History and criticism.
Women in literature.

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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 318-341) and index.
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Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2009018541
ISBN9780874130768 (alk. paper)
ISBN087413076X (alk. paper)

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