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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9781350095953
Publisert
2021
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Bloomsbury Academic
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Engelsk
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Digital bok
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