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A coy tease, enchantress, adulteress, irresponsible mother, hard-hearted wife - such are the possible images of Penelope that Homer playfully presents to listeners and readers of the Odyssey, and that his narration ultimately contradicts or fails to confirm. In Regarding Penelope, Nancy Felson-Rubin explores the relationship between Homer's construction of Penelope and his more general theory of poetic production and reception. Felson-Rubin begins by considering Penelope as an object of male gazes (those of Telemakhos, Odysseus, the suitors, and Agamemnon's ghost) and as a subject acting from…
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2 editions- Other · English · 1997University of Oklahoma Press · 215 pages · 9780806129617
- Other · English · 1994Princeton University Press · 215 pages · 9780691032283
Greek Epic poetryWomen and literatureHistory and criticismEpic poetry, GreekPenelopePenelope (Greek mythology) in literatureCharactersHomer