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Weaving the word : the metaphorics of weaving and female textual production
- Title
- Weaving the word : the metaphorics of weaving and female textual production / Kathryn Sullivan Kruger.
- Author
- Kruger, Kathryn Sullivan, 1960-
- Publication
- Selinsgrove [Pa.] : Susquehanna University Press ; London : Associated University Presses, ©2001.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | PR508.W6 K78 2001 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- 187 pages : illustrations (some color); 24 cm
- Summary
- "In Weaving the Word Kathryn Sullivan Kruger examines the link between written texts and woven textiles. Encoded by pattern, symbol, and dye, textiles offer an important form of communication heretofore ignored. Kruger asserts that before written texts could record and preserve the stories of a culture, cloth was one of the primary modes for transmitting social beliefs and messages." "Through an analysis of specific weaving stories, the difference between a text and a textile becomes blurred. Such stories portray women weavers transforming their domestic activity of making textiles into one of making texts by inscribing their cloth with both personal and political messages."--Jacket.
- Subject
- Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron, 1809-1892
- Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron, 1809-1892. > Illustrations
- Blake, William, 1757-1827
- Homer > Characters > Weavers
- Homer > Characters > Women
- Homer
- Forchenbrunn, Herwerd von
- Blake, William
- Tennyson, Alfred
- Lady of Shalott (Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron)
- Four Zoas (Blake, William)
- English poetry > History and criticism
- Women in literature
- Mythology, Greek, in literature
- Weaving in literature
- Women weavers
- weavers
- English poetry
- Illustration of books
- Mythology, Greek, in literature
- Weaving in literature
- Women in literature
- Women weavers
- Weben
- Weberin
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 169-180) and index.
- Contents
- 1. Myth, History, and the Material Word -- 2. The Semiotics of Cloth and Thetic (Re) Production -- 3. The Greek Web: Arachne and Philomela, Penelope and Helen of Troy -- 4. The Loom of Language and the Garment of Words in William Blake's The Four Zoas -- 5. "A Magic Web with Colors Gay": Representations of the Lady of Shalott in Pre-Raphaelite Art -- 6. Uniquely Feminine Productions.
- ISBN
- 1575910527
- 9781575910529
- LCCN
- 00066078
- OCLC
- ocm45466154
- 45466154
- SCSB-1248056
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library