A feminist mythology /
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| Author / Creator: | Bottici, Chiara, author. |
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| Uniform title: | Per tre miti, forse quattro. English |
| Imprint: | London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2022. ©2022 |
| Description: | xx, 193 pages ; 22 cm |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12707396 |
| 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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| Item Description: | First published in 2016 in Italy as Per tre miti, forse quattro. |
| Physical Description: | xx, 193 pages ; 22 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 1350095966 9781350095960 1350095974 9781350095977 9781350095984 9781350095953 |
