A Feminist Mythology (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781350095960)

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.

Author: Chiara Bottici
ISBN-10: 1350095966
ISBN-13: 9781350095960
Publisher: Continnuum-3PL
Language: English
Published: 10/21/2021
Pages: 216
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.87lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.50d