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For two thousand years, images of Cleopatra have been distorted by the fantasies of European imagination and cultures. Our view of Cleopatra is structured not by the existence of the real woman but by the historical and cultural influences governing the various readings of her life. Each influence bears the traces of specific struggles for power and meaning, which Mary Hamer recovers. "Signs of Cleopatra" is a set of Cleopatra puzzles, using the Bakhtinian argument that a contest of meanings based around a figure allow issues of the widest importance to be organized and earthed through it. Taking particular images of Cleopatra from history, classics, literary studies and art history the author explores the difference between these images, concentrating on the specific social and historical formations which inform each reading and questioning the processes of representation itself.
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- PublisherRoutledge
- Publication date1993
- ISBN 10 0415048710
- ISBN 13 9780415048712
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages224
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ISBN 13: 9780415048712
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Book Description hardcover. Condition: Good. 164 pp. 6 1/4 x 9 1/2. Black cloth covered boards, stamped in silver on front and spine. No dj. One inch tear at head of spine. Author's inscription on title page. No other markings noted. Author. Seller Inventory # 69679
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