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A Web of Fantasies

Gaze, Image, and Gender in Ovid's Metamorphoses

By: Patricia B. Salzman-Mitchell

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A Web of Fantasies

Gaze, Image, and Gender in Ovid's Metamorphoses

By: Patricia B. Salzman-Mitchell

Drawing on recent scholarship in art, film, literary theory, and gender studies, A Web of Fantasies examines the complexities, symbolism, and interactions between gaze and image in Ovid's Metamorphoses and forms a gender-sensitive perspective. It is a feminist study of Ovid's epic, which includes many stories about change, in which discussions of viewers, viewing, and imagery strive to illuminate Ovid's constructions of male and female. Patricia Salzman-Mitchell discusses the text from the perspective of three types of gazes: of characters looking, of the poet who narrates visually charged stories, and of the reader who "sees" the woven images in the text. Arguing against certain theorists who deny the possibility of any feminine vision in a male-authored poem, the author maintains that the female point of view can be released through the traditional feminine occupation of weaving, featuring the woven images of Arachne (involved in a weaving contest in which she tried to best the goddess Athena, who turned her into a spider) and Philomela (who had her tongue cut out, so had to weave a tapestry depicting her rape and mutilation)." "The book observes that while feminist models of the gaze can create productive readings of the poem, these models are too limited and reductive for such a protean and complex text as Metamorphoses. This work brings forth the pervasive importance of the act of looking in the poem which will affect future readings of Ovid's epic."--BOOK JACKET.

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Ohio State University Press

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0814209998

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A Web of Fantasies

Gaze, Image, and Gender in Ovid's Metamorphoses

By: Patricia B. Salzman-Mitchell

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Gaze, Image, and Gender in Ovid's Metamorphoses

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Laura Ingalls Wilder

Growing Up in the Little House

By: Patricia Reilly Giff

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Laura Ingalls Wilder

Growing Up in the Little House

By: Patricia Reilly Giff

A biography of the author of the "Little House" books, including the years of her marriage to Almanzo Wilder.

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Penguin

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0147513642

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9780147513649

Patriots in Petticoats

By: Patricia Edwards Clyne

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Patriots in Petticoats

By: Patricia Edwards Clyne

More than twenty brief biographies of women who fought for their country's independence. Includes information on related historic sites and markers that can be visited today.

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144

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Dodd Mead

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0396072925

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9780396072928

Virgin Time

By: Patricia Hampl

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Virgin Time

By: Patricia Hampl

The author chronicles her struggle with traditional Catholicism, her search for the "old world" religion of Europe, and, ultimately, her rediscovery of the joys of prayer. By the author of A Romantic Education.

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241

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Farrar Straus & Giroux

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0374284407

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9780374284404

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