Format:
350 S.
,
Ill.
ISBN:
087413076X
,
9780874130768
Content:
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
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
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.
Language:
English
Subjects:
Ancient Studies
Keywords:
Lyrik
;
Prosagedicht
;
Lyrikerin
;
Geschichte
;
Frauenliteratur
;
Versepik
;
Geschichte
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