A Web of Fantasies : Gaze, Image, and Gender in Ovid's Metamorphoses /
Salzman-Mitchell, Patricia B.
A Web of Fantasies : Gaze, Image, and Gender in Ovid's Metamorphoses / Patricia B. Salzman-Mitchell. - 1 online resource (262 pages). - Book collections on Project MUSE. .
Gaze, image, and gender in Ovid's Metamorphoses -- The intrusive gaze -- The fixing gaze -- Phantastic text(iles) -- Women for women, women by women.
Open Access
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
9780814272749
Ovidius Naso, Publius. Metamorphoses.
Ovidius Naso, Publius, approximately v43 - 18. Metamorphoses.
Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D. Metamorphoses.
Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D. Metamorphoses.
Metamorphoses (Ovid)
Fables latines--Histoire et critique.
Mythologie ancienne dans la litterature.
Metamorphose (Biologie) dans la litterature.
Rôle selon le sexe dans la litterature.
Femmes dans la litterature.
Regard dans la litterature.
Geschlechterrolle
Frau
Blick
Women in literature.
Sex role in literature.
Mythology, Classical, in literature.
Metamorphosis in literature.
Gaze in literature.
Feminism and literature.
Fables, Latin.
Gaze in literature.
Women in literature.
Sex role in literature.
Metamorphosis in literature.
Feminism and literature--Rome.
Mythology, Classical, in literature.
Fables, Latin--History and criticism.
Rome (Empire)
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
A Web of Fantasies : Gaze, Image, and Gender in Ovid's Metamorphoses / Patricia B. Salzman-Mitchell. - 1 online resource (262 pages). - Book collections on Project MUSE. .
Gaze, image, and gender in Ovid's Metamorphoses -- The intrusive gaze -- The fixing gaze -- Phantastic text(iles) -- Women for women, women by women.
Open Access
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
9780814272749
Ovidius Naso, Publius. Metamorphoses.
Ovidius Naso, Publius, approximately v43 - 18. Metamorphoses.
Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D. Metamorphoses.
Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D. Metamorphoses.
Metamorphoses (Ovid)
Fables latines--Histoire et critique.
Mythologie ancienne dans la litterature.
Metamorphose (Biologie) dans la litterature.
Rôle selon le sexe dans la litterature.
Femmes dans la litterature.
Regard dans la litterature.
Geschlechterrolle
Frau
Blick
Women in literature.
Sex role in literature.
Mythology, Classical, in literature.
Metamorphosis in literature.
Gaze in literature.
Feminism and literature.
Fables, Latin.
Gaze in literature.
Women in literature.
Sex role in literature.
Metamorphosis in literature.
Feminism and literature--Rome.
Mythology, Classical, in literature.
Fables, Latin--History and criticism.
Rome (Empire)
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.