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Other authors / contributors: | Scaramuzzi, Sveva, translator.
Corriero, Claudia, translator.
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ISBN: | 1350095966 9781350095960 1350095974 9781350095977 9781350095984 9781350095953
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Notes: | First published in 2016 in Italy as Per tre miti, forse quattro. Includes bibliographical references.
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Summary: | A Feminist Mythology takes us on a poetic journey through the canonical myths of femininity, testing them from the point of view of our modern condition. A myth is not an object, but rather a process, one that Chiara Bottici practises by exploring different variants of the myth of "womanhood" through first- and third-person prose and poetry. We follow a series of myths that morph into each other, disclosing ways of being woman that question inherited patriarchal orders. In this metamorphic world, story-telling is not just a mix of narrative, philosophical dialogues and metaphysical theorizing: it is a current that traverses all of them by overflowing the boundaries it encounters. In doing so, A Feminist Mythology proposes an alternative writing style that recovers ancient philosophical and literary traditions from the pre-Socratic philosophers and Ovid's Metamorphoses to the philosophical novellas and feminist experimental writings of the last century. --
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Other form: | ebook version : 9781350095984
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