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The Greek novel occupies a special place in the debate on gender in antiquity, forcing us to ask why the female protagonists are such strong and positive characters. This book rejects the hypothesis of a largely female readership, and also sees a problem in ascribing this pattern to the reflection of a blanket improvement in the status of women. Katharine Haynes shows that the strong heroines are best understood not as an undistorted mirror on an improved social reality, but as a type of 'constructed feminine'.The book offers a wealth of fascinating insights into the kaleidoscopic world of male and female in the Greek novel, which will inform and illuminate the reader whatever the text being studied. The related issues of ethnicity and self-definition also explored will be of interest for all those working on ancient fiction or the culture of the Second Sophistic
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Fashioning the Feminine in the Greek Novel, Katharine Haynes
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- Année de publication
- 2002
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- Titre
- Fashioning the Feminine in the Greek Novel
- Langue
- Anglais
- Auteurs
- Katharine Haynes
- Éditeur
- Routledge
- Publié
- 2002
- Format
- souple
- Pages
- 224
- ISBN10
- 0415262100
- ISBN13
- 9780415262101
- Séries
- Mots clés
- Fiction, Thème historique, Classiques, Culture et Société, Féminisme, Époque antique, Genre
- Évaluation
- 3 sur 5
- Description
- The Greek novel occupies a special place in the debate on gender in antiquity, forcing us to ask why the female protagonists are such strong and positive characters. This book rejects the hypothesis of a largely female readership, and also sees a problem in ascribing this pattern to the reflection of a blanket improvement in the status of women. Katharine Haynes shows that the strong heroines are best understood not as an undistorted mirror on an improved social reality, but as a type of 'constructed feminine'.The book offers a wealth of fascinating insights into the kaleidoscopic world of male and female in the Greek novel, which will inform and illuminate the reader whatever the text being studied. The related issues of ethnicity and self-definition also explored will be of interest for all those working on ancient fiction or the culture of the Second Sophistic