A Penelopean Poetics: Reweaving the Feminine in Homer's Odyssey by Barbara Clayton

A Penelopean Poetics: Reweaving the Feminine in Homer's Odyssey

Barbara Clayton

156 pages first pub 2004 (editions)

nonfiction challenging medium-paced
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A Penelopean Poetics looks at the relationship between gender ideology and the self-referential poetics of the Odyssey through the figure of Penelope. She is a cunning story-teller; her repeated reweavings of Laertes' shroud a figurative replicati...

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