Weaving Truth: Essays on Language and the Female in Greek Thought: 19 (Hellenic Studies Series) - Softcover

Bergren, Ann

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0674023722 ISBN 13: 9780674023727

Verlag: Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies, 2008

Inhaltsangabe

Essays on Language and the Female in Greek Thought

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Reseña del editor

"What if truth were a woman?" asked Nietzsche. In ancient Greek thought, truth in language has a special relation to the female by virtue of her pre-eminent art-form - the one Freud believed was even invented by women - weaving. The essays in this book explore the implications of this nexus: language, the female, weaving, and the construction of truth. The Homeric bard - male, to be sure - inherits from Indo-European culture the designation of his poetry as a weaving, the female's art. Like her tapestries, his "texts" can suspend, reverse, and re-order time. He can weave the content from one world into the interstices of another. The male poet shares the ambiguous power of the female Muses whose speech he channels. "We can say false things like to real things, and whenever we wish, we can utter the truth."

Biografía del autor

Ann Bergren is Professor of Greek Literature, Literary Theory, and Contemporary Architecture at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0674023722
• ISBN 13: 9780674023727
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 424