Originally published in 2016 in Italy as Per tre miti, forse quattro

Two myths and a half. First myth : Sherazade and her phantom
Second myth : the dress of Ariadne
Third myth : Europa recovered
The city of women. Overture
The vest
Rehab
The oven of opposites
A witch and her broomstick
A bill
The names
The call, or occasional tourism
Maximum ten (with addendum)
The lifebelt
The threat
Bestiarium. The ostrich
The butterfly
The dog
The snake
The herring
Part IV. Herbarium. The investor
The inspector
The dancing god

A Feminist Mythology takes us on a poetic journey through the canonical myths of femininity, testing them from the point of view of our modern condition. A myth is not an object, but rather a process, one that Chiara Bottici practises by exploring different variants of the myth of "womanhood" through first- and third-person prose and poetry. We follow a series of myths that morph into each other, disclosing ways of being woman that question inherited patriarchal orders. In this metamorphic world, story-telling is not just a mix of narrative, philosophical dialogues and metaphysical theorizing: it is a current that traverses all of them by overflowing the boundaries it encounters. In doing so, A Feminist Mythology proposes an alternative writing style that recovers ancient philosophical and literary traditions from the pre-Socratic philosophers and Ovid's Metamorphoses to the philosophical novellas and feminist experimental writings of the last century. -- Provided by publisher

CASG Doctor of Philiosophy major in Literature

In English