Pandora Senses The Feminine Character of the Ancient Text 1st Edition by Vered Lev Kenaan 9780299224141 0299224147

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ISBN 10: 0299224147 
ISBN 13: 9780299224141
Author: Vered Lev Kenaan

The notorious image of Pandora haunts mythology: a woman created as punishment for the crimes of man, she is the bearer of hope yet also responsible for the Earth’s desolation. She binds together perpetuating dichotomies that underlie the most fundamental aspects of the Western canon:  beauty and evil, body and soul, depth and superficiality, truth and lie. Speaking in multiplicity, Pandora emerges as the first sign of female complexity.

In this compelling study, Vered Lev Kenaan offers a radical revision of the Greek myth of the first woman. She argues that Pandora leaves a decisive mark on ancient poetics and shows that we can unravel the profound impact of Pandora’s image once we recognize that Pandora embodies the very idea of the ancient literary text. Locating the myth of the first woman right at the heart of feminist interrogation of gender and textuality, Pandora’s Senses moves beyond a feminist critique of masculine hegemony by challenging the reading of Pandora as a one-dimensional embodiment of the misogynist vision of the feminine. Uncovering Pandora as a textual principle operating outside of the feminine, Lev Kenaan shows the centrality of this iconic figure among the poetics of such central genres as the cosmological and didactic epic, the Platonic dialogue, the love elegy, and the ancient novel. Pandora’s Senses innovates our understanding of gender as a critical lens through which to view ancient literature.

Pandora Senses The Feminine Character of the Ancient Text 1st Table of contents:

Frontmatter
Preface (page ix)
Introduction (page 3)
1. Pandora’s Light (page 17)
2. Pandora and the Myth of Otherness (page 48)
3. The Socratic Pandora (page 76)
4. Pandora’s Voice and the Emergence of Ovid’s Poetic Persona (page 103)
5. Feminine Subjectivity and the Self-Contradicting Text (page 131)
6. Pandora’s Tears (page 161)
Epilogue (page 187)
Notes (page 191)
Bibliography (page 223)
Index (page 237)

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