Jones

PLAYING THE MAN OSCL C

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktdetails

• Verlag: ACADEMIC
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 536g
• ISBN-13: 9780199570089
• ISBN-10: 0199570086
• Artikelnr.: 47866478

Autorenporträt

Meriel Jones was Lecturer in Classics at the University of Wales Lampeter from 2006-8, and is a founder-member of KYKNOS, the Swansea and Lampeter ancient narrative research centre. Her doctoral thesis, Playing the Man: Performing Masculinities in the Greek Novel, was joint winner of the Hellenic Foundation 2007 Award for best doctoral thesis in the Ancient Literature, Philosophy, and Archaeology category. She has published on gender, ekphrasis, magic, and personal names in the Greek novels, and is currently Honorary Research Fellow of the Department of Classics at University of Wales Trinity Saint David.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1 Paideia
The history and social context of paideia
The gendering of paideia
Male paideia in the novels
Concluding remarks
2 Andreia
Defining and contextualizing andreia
The gendering of andreia
Male andreia in the novels
Concluding remarks
3 Masculinity and Sexual Ideology
Introduction
Resisting ideology?
Imperilled masculinity
Masculinity as role-play
A man with women and a woman with men
Concluding remarks
Conclusion
References
Index Locorum
General Index