Cleopatra - Francine Prose

Cleopatra

Her History, Her Myth

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Buch | Hardcover
208 Seiten
2022
Yale University Press (Verlag)
978-0-300-25667-3 (ISBN)
24,85 inkl. MwSt
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A feminist reinterpretation of the myths surrounding Cleopatra casts new light on the Egyptian queen and her legacy
 
“A lucid and persuasive reinterpretation. Readers won’t see Cleopatra the same way again.”—Publishers Weekly
 
“Where Prose really sparkles: her critiques of the cultural depictions of Cleopatra.”—Allison Arieff, San Francisco Chronicle
 
The siren passionately in love with Mark Antony, the seductress who allegedly rolled out of a carpet she had herself smuggled in to see Caesar, Cleopatra is a figure shrouded in myth. Beyond the legends immortalized by Plutarch, Shakespeare, George Bernard Shaw, and others, there are no journals or letters written by Cleopatra herself. All we have to tell her story are words written by others. What has it meant for our understanding of Cleopatra to have had her story told by writers who had a political agenda, authors who distrusted her motives, and historians who believed she was a liar?
 
Francine Prose delves into ancient Greek and Roman literary sources, as well as modern representations of Cleopatra in art, theater, and film, to challenge narratives driven by orientalism and misogyny and offer a new interpretation of Cleopatra’s history through the lens of our current era.

Francine Prose is the author of numerous books, including Lovers at the Chameleon Club, Paris 1932; Anne Frank: The Book, The Life, The Afterlife; and Reading Like a Writer. A Distinguished Writer in Residence at Bard College, she lives in New York.

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Ancient Lives
Zusatzinfo 1 map
Sprache englisch
Maße 140 x 216 mm
Themenwelt Literatur Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
Sachbuch/Ratgeber Geschichte / Politik
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Gender Studies
ISBN-10 0-300-25667-1 / 0300256671
ISBN-13 978-0-300-25667-3 / 9780300256673
Zustand Neuware
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