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A. Bergren, Weaving Truth: Essays on Language and the Female in Greek Thoughts

A. Bergren, Weaving Truth: Essays on Language and the Female in Greek Thoughts

Publié le par Frédérique Fleck (Source : BMCR)


Ann Bergren, Weaving Truth: Essays on Language and the Female in Greek Thoughts,  Cambridge, Mass./London:  Harvard University Press, coll. "Hellenic Studies" 19,  2008.  Pp. xii, 417.  

  • ISBN 9780674023727.  
  • $19.95 (pb).  

Recension par Viviana Gastaldi (Universidad Nacional del Sur) dans Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2010.02.06.

Présentation de l'éditeur:

"What if truth were a woman?" asked Nietzsche. In ancient Greekthought, truth in language has a special relation to the female byvirtue of her pre-eminent art-form--the one Freud believed was eveninvented by women--weaving. The essays in this book explore theimplications of this nexus: language, the female, weaving, and theconstruction of truth.

The Homeric bard--male, to be sure--inherits from Indo-European culturethe designation of his poetry as a weaving, the female's art. Like hertapestries, his "texts" can suspend, reverse, and re-order time. He canweave the content from one world into the interstices of another.

The male poet shares the ambiguous power of the female Museswhose speech he channels. "We can say false things like to real things,and whenever we wish, we can utter the truth."

Table des matières:

Acknowledgments

Preface

Introduction

1. Language and the Female in Early Greek ThoughtWeaving in Narrative: Textures of Space and Time

2. Helen's Web: Time and Tableau in the Iliad

3. Similes and Symbols in Odyssey v

4. Odyssean Temporality: Many (Re)TurnsWeaving pseudea homoia etumoisin "false things like to real things"

5. Helen's "Good Drug"

6. Sacred Apostrophe: Re-Presentation and Imitation in Homeric Hymn to Apollo and Homeric Hymn to Hermes

7. Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite: Tradition and Rhetoric, Praise and BlameWeaving in Architecture: The Truth of Building

8. The (Re)Marriage of Penelope and Odysseus

9. Architecture, Gender, Philosophy

10. Female, Fetish, Urban Form

Bibliography

Index

Index Locorum

Index of Greek Terms