Pandora's Jar
Autor Natalie Haynesen Limba Engleză Hardback – 29 mar 2022
Găsim în această carte o intervenție necesară într-o lacună persistentă a studiilor clasice: marginalizarea și demonizarea sistematică a personajelor feminine în mitologia greacă. De secole, figurile feminine au fost reduse la arhetipuri ale răzbunării sau ale nesăbuinței, însă Pandora's Jar propune o recalibrare a acestor perspective. Merită menționat că Natalie Haynes nu se limitează la o simplă repovestire, ci investighează modul în care traducătorii și istoricii — majoritatea bărbați — au distorsionat sursele originale pentru a se potrivi unor prejudecăți de gen. Un exemplu elocvent oferit de autoare este transformarea lingvistică a recipientului Pandorei dintr-un borcan (pithos), care se poate răsturna accidental, într-o cutie închisă deliberat, schimbând fundamental natura vinei personajului. Ne-a atras atenția modul în care Haynes echilibrează rigoarea academică a unui clasicist cu un ton incisiv și plin de umor. Volumul extinde cadrul propus de Pandora’s Senses de Vered Lev Kenaan cu date noi din receptarea culturală modernă și analize literare aplicate pe texte de la Hesiod la Euripide. În timp ce Lev Kenaan se concentrează pe dualitatea filosofică a Pandorei, Haynes lărgește spectrul analizei către Medusa, prezentată nu ca monstru, ci ca victimă a unei pedepse disproporționate, sau către Iocasta, a cărei inteligență este adesea ignorată în favoarea complexului freudian al fiului său. Această lucrare se poziționează organic în opera autoarei, fiind puntea analitică între narațiunea epică din A Thousand Ships și explorarea divinității din Divine Might. Stilul este alert, capitolele fiind structurate ca eseuri de sine stătătoare care deconstruiesc milenii de interpretări patriarhale.
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Specificații
ISBN-10: 0063211319
Pagini: 320
Dimensiuni: 160 x 236 x 32 mm
Greutate: 0.47 kg
Editura: Harpercollins
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De ce să citești această carte
Recomandăm această carte cititorilor pasionați de mitologie care doresc să înțeleagă rădăcinile misoginismului în literatura occidentală. Natalie Haynes oferă instrumentele critice necesare pentru a reciti clasicii dintr-o perspectivă feministă, fără a sacrifica acuratețea istorică. Este o lectură esențială pentru cei care au apreciat Stone Blind și doresc să exploreze contextul academic și istoric din spatele ficțiunii, câștigând o înțelegere nuanțată a modului în care poveștile ne modelează percepția asupra realității.
Despre autor
Natalie Haynes este o personalitate polivalentă a culturii britanice, fiind recunoscută ca scriitoare, clasicistă, radiodifuzor și comediantă. Educația sa solidă în studiile clasice la Cambridge îi permite să navigheze cu ușurință prin textele antice, în timp ce cariera sa în stand-up comedy îi conferă un stil narativ accesibil și percutant. Este autoarea unor volume de succes precum A Thousand Ships, finalist la Women's Prize for Fiction, și Stone Blind. Prin munca sa, Haynes a devenit una dintre cele mai influente voci contemporane în efortul de readucere a perspectivelor feminine în centrul mitologiei greco-romane, colaborând constant cu BBC pentru popularizarea antichității.
Descriere scurtă
“Funny, sharp explications of what these sometimes not-very-nice women were up to, and how they sometimes made idiots of . . . but read on!”—Margaret Atwood, author of The Handmaid's Tale
The national bestselling author of A Thousand Ships returns with a fascinating, eye-opening take on the remarkable women at the heart of classical stories Greek mythology from Helen of Troy to Pandora and the Amazons to Medea.
The tellers of Greek myths—historically men—have routinely sidelined the female characters. When they do take a larger role, women are often portrayed as monstrous, vengeful or just plain evil—like Pandora, the woman of eternal scorn and damnation whose curiosity is tasked with causing all the world’s suffering and wickedness when she opened that forbidden box. But, as Natalie Haynes reveals, in ancient Greek myths there was no box. It was a jar . . . which is far more likely to tip over.
In Pandora’s Jar, the broadcaster, writer, stand-up comedian, and passionate classicist turns the tables, putting the women of the Greek myths on an equal footing with the men. With wit, humor, and savvy, Haynes revolutionizes our understanding of epic poems, stories, and plays, resurrecting them from a woman’s perspective and tracing the origins of their mythic female characters. She looks at women such as Jocasta, Oedipus’ mother-turned-lover-and-wife (turned Freudian sticking point), at once the cleverest person in the story and yet often unnoticed. She considers Helen of Troy, whose marriage to Paris “caused” the Trojan war—a somewhat uneven response to her decision to leave her husband for another man. She demonstrates how the vilified Medea was like an ancient Beyonce—getting her revenge on the man who hurt and betrayed her, if by extreme measures. And she turns her eye to Medusa, the original monstered woman, whose stare turned men to stone, but who wasn’t always a monster, and had her hair turned to snakes as punishment for being raped.
Pandora’s Jar brings nuance and care to the millennia-old myths and legends and asks the question: Why are we so quick to villainize these women in the first place—and so eager to accept the stories we’ve been told?
Recenzii
“Natalie Haynes is both a witty and an erudite guide. She wears her extensive learning lightly and deftly drags the Classics into the modern world. I loved it.” — Kate Atkinson, author of Life After Life
“Natalie Haynes is beyond brilliant. Pandora’s Jar is a treasure box of classical delights. Never has ancient misogyny been presented with so much wit and style." — Amanda Foreman, author of The World Made by Women
“Beyoncé, Star Trek, Ray Harryhausen . . . the most enjoyable book about Greek myths you will ever read, absolutely brimming with subversive enthusiasm.” — Mark Haddon, author of The Porpoise and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
"Witty, erudite and subversive, this takes the women of Greek myth―the women who are sidelined, vilified, misunderstood or ignored―and puts them centre stage." — Samantha Ellis, author of How to Be a Heroine and Take Courage
“Natalie Haynes is [Britain’s] muse.” — Adam Rutherford, author of How to Argue with a Racist
"A hugely enjoyable and witty book, which will appeal to admirers of novels such as Madeline Miller’s Circe, Kamila Shamsie’s Home Fire, and Haynes’s own fiction.” — The Guardian
“Impassioned and informed . . . When Haynes gets down to retelling the stories . . . and teasing out their distortions and elisions, the book flies." — Sunday Times (UK)
“An erudite, funny and sometimes angry attempt to fill in the blank spaces.” — Observer
“Classicist Haynes challenges common ideas about Greek mythology in this sharp corrective. . . . When she hits her stride and seamlessly blends historical, textual, and artistic analysis, her survey sings. Even those casually familiar with Greek mythology will find this enriching.” — Publishers Weekly
“Agile, rich, subversive, Pandora's Jar proves that the classics are far from dead, and keep evolving with us.” — Mail on Sunday
“Witty and frequently surprising.” — Times Literary Supplement
“Engaged, engaging and fun.” — Herald
“Packed with wry humor and scholarly insight, Pandora’s Jar shines a new light on our oldest stories, illuminating its subjects in all their painful complexity.” — Booklist
"Throughout, Haynes also notes that these often outlandish retellings and related tropes have become (flawed) inspirations for works of modern art, music, and film, including the original Star Trek series, an episode of The Simpsons, Pulp Fiction, and a music video by Beyoncé . . . Readers of all levels of knowledge are certain to be enthralled with her analysis and find her humor and wit captivating. A fun and informative addition to the ongoing consideration of ancient mythology." — Kirkus Reviews
"A classicist revisits the tales of 10 mythological women from a female perspective, adding a new depth and nuance to the stories of Helen of Troy, Medea, Medusa and others." — New York Times
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Descriere
'Funny, sharp explications of what these sometimes not-very-nice women were up to!' - Margaret Atwood, author of The Handmaid's Tale
The Greek myths are among the world's most important cultural building blocks and they have been retold many times, but rarely do they focus on the remarkable women at the heart of these ancient stories.
Stories of gods and monsters are the mainstay of epic poetry and Greek tragedy, from Homer to Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides, from the Trojan War to Jason and the Argonauts. And still, today, a wealth of novels, plays and films draw their inspiration from stories first told almost three thousand years ago. But modern tellers of Greek myth have usually been men, and have routinely shown little interest in telling women's stories. And when they do, those women are often painted as monstrous, vengeful or just plain evil. But Pandora - the first woman, who according to legend unloosed chaos upon the world - was not a villain, and even Medea and Phaedra have more nuanced stories than generations of retellings might indicate.
Now, in Pandora's Jar: Women in the Greek Myths, Natalie Haynes - broadcaster, writer and passionate classicist - redresses this imbalance. Taking Pandora and her jar (the box came later) as the starting point, she puts the women of the Greek myths on equal footing with the menfolk. After millennia of stories telling of gods and men, be they Zeus or Agamemnon, Paris or Odysseus, Oedipus or Jason, the voices that sing from these pages are those of Hera, Athena and Artemis, and of Clytemnestra, Jocasta, Eurydice and Penelope.
'A treasure box of classical delights. Never has ancient misogyny been presented with so much wit and style' - historian Amanda Foreman