I Am Arachne

I Am Arachne

Author: Elizabeth Spires

Publisher: Paw Prints

Published: 2009-07-21

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781442030770

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Presents a retelling of fifteen Greek and Roman myths from the point of view of the main protagonist, including those of Arachne, Callisto, Baucis and Philemon, and Sisyphus.


I Am Arachne

I Am Arachne

Author: Elizabeth Spires

Publisher: Square Fish

Published: 2024-05-28

Total Pages: 95

ISBN-13: 1250381061

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Spinning, I can't stop spinning, so stay a minute, and I, Arachne, will spin a story for you . . . In this singular collection, the heroes and heroines of fifteen Greek and Roman tales give their own dramatic accounts of events. From the magnificent spinner Arachne, who learns that a mortal should never challenge a god, to the god Pan, who prefers Earth to Mount Olympus, to the beautiful, self-indulgent Pandora and the gold-stricken Midas—the reader becomes a confidant to the tellers of these sometimes humorous, sometimes sad, always engaging tales of wonder, woe, romantic love, and jealousy. Mordicai Gerstein's energetic, whimsical illustrations combine with Elizabeth Spires's playful renditions for a totally fresh take on familiar and not-so-familiar myths.


Why Spiders Spin

Why Spiders Spin

Author: Jamie Simons

Publisher: Silver Press

Published: 1991-06

Total Pages: 32

ISBN-13: 9780671691240

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Because she boasts that she weaves better than anyone, Arachne is turned into a spider.


Toxicon & Arachne

Toxicon & Arachne

Author: Joyelle McSweeney

Publisher: Hachette UK

Published: 2021-02-04

Total Pages: 121

ISBN-13: 1472156048

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'The power of McSweeney's work cannot be separated from its association with forms of oracle and soothsaying, and so it is uncanny that it should arrive in the middle of a global pandemic... Frightening and brilliant' Dan Chiasson, New Yorker How does the body gestate grief? How does toxicity birth catastrophe? In the months leading up to her daughter Arachne's birth, US poet Joyelle McSweeney set out to write a quiver of poems like a quiver of poison arrows: formally and sonically virtuosic, laced with the poet's obsessive concerns with contamination, decay and the sublime, featuring a crown of 'toxic sonnets' for the tuberculosis bacterium that killed Keats. But when Arachne was born with an unexpected birth defect, lived briefly and died, the poet was visited by a second welter of poems, odes of love, grief, perplexity and rage. These two books, Toxicon & Arachne, form a double collection of poems weighing love, grief, art and survival in increasingly toxic days. Toxicon & Arachne is the culmination of eight years of engagement with lyric under a regime of global and personal catastrophes.


Tracing Arachne's Web

Tracing Arachne's Web

Author: Kristin M. Bloomberg

Publisher: Orange Grove Text Plus

Published: 2009-09

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781616101077

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"I am particularly impressed with Bloomberg's insights about the ways in which women writers' urge to harness the power of women's myths has to some extent been aroused by historical forces. . . . She explains that women's desire to reinvent their identities requires that women writers take over the narrative tools (such as mythic allusions) provided them by male writers and use those tools to build their own textual 'house.'"--Mary Lowe-Evans, University of West Florida Tracing Arachne's Web examines the use of myth in works by American women novelists of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, showing how both classical allusions and ethnic folk myth liberated these writers and enabled them to understand and experience their social and economic worlds. Using the metaphor of Demeter and Persephone as her framework, Kristin Mapel Bloomberg identifies a cycle in women's fiction that moves from the utopian world of Demeter's garden in the late 19th century to the experience of isolated women in the patriarchal underworld of literary modernism. Examining the works of Sarah Orne Jewett, Emma D. Kelley-Hawkins, Onoto Watanna (aka Winnifred Eaton), Alice Dunbar-Nelson, Edith Wharton, and Djuna Barnes, she develops a model of women's writing that ties these writers' fascination with the occult and Greek mythology to T. S. Eliot's notion of the "mythical method." Drawing from history and popular culture, she demonstrates how women of color responded to many of the same cultural currents as white writers. She does this, moreover, by analyzing the coded strategies followed by women of color to get their books into print, without collapsing race into gender issues. Invariably provocative, Bloomberg's writing creates a picture of female power in turn-of-the-century American fiction in which women writers turned to alternative spiritual ideologies and occult philosophies to investigate tensions between racism, sexism, and classicism. This book will appeal to scholars in American studies, literary criticism, women's studies, and cultural studies. Kristin M. Mapel Bloomberg, associate professor of English and women's studies at Hamline University in St. Paul, Minnesota, holds the Hamline University Chair in the Humanities and is also Director of the Women's Studies Program.


The Story of Arachne

The Story of Arachne

Author: Pamela Espeland

Publisher:

Published: 1980

Total Pages: 36

ISBN-13: 9780876141304

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Because she boasts that she weaves better than anyone, Arachne is turned into a spider.


Echo Echo

Echo Echo

Author: Marilyn Singer

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2016-02-16

Total Pages: 36

ISBN-13: 0399186891

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A new book of unique reversible poems based on Greek myths from the creator of Mirror Mirror What happens when you hold up a mirror to poems about Greek myths? You get a brand-new perspective on the classics! And that is just what happens in Echo Echo, the newest collection of reverso poems from Marilyn Singer. Read one way, each poem tells the story of a familiar myth; but when read in reverse, the poems reveal a new point of view! Readers will delight in uncovering the dual points of view in well-known legends, including the stories of Pandora’s box, King Midas and his golden touch, Perseus and Medusa, Pygmalion, Icarus and Daedalus, Demeter and Persephone, and Echo and Narcissus. These cunning verses combine with beautiful illustrations to create a collection of fourteen reverso poems to treasure.


Greek Myth Plays

Greek Myth Plays

Author: Carol Pugliano

Publisher: Teaching Resources

Published: 2008-05

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780439640145

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Students build fluency and gain confidence as readers with this collection of Greek myth plays