The experiences of Tiresias: the feminine and the Greek man
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Beteilige Person: Loraux, Nicole 1943-2003 (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:Englisch
Französisch
Veröffentlicht: Princeton, NJ Princeton University Press 1995
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Abstract:Nicole Loraux has devoted much of her writing to charting the paths of the Greek "imaginary," revealing a collective masculine psyche fraught with ambivalence as it tries to grasp the differences between nature and culture, body and soul, woman and man. The Experiences of Tiresias, its title referring to the shepherd struck blind after glimpsing Athena's naked body, captures this ambivalence in exploring how the Greek male defines himself in relationship to the feminine. In these essays Loraux disturbs the idea of virile men and feminine women, a distinction found in official discourse and aimed at protecting the ideals of male identity from any taint of the feminine. Turning to epic and to Socrates, however, she insists on a logic of inclusiveness between the genders, which casts a shadow over their clear, officially defined borders.
Umfang:VIII, 348 S.
ISBN:0691029857