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The Force of Tenderness: The Union of Spirit and Soul

The Force of Tenderness: The Union of Spirit and Soul

Avery, Dorothy J.
Wetmore, James Richard

Paperback

Literary CriticismMetaphysical General

ISBN10: 1597311707
ISBN13: 9781597311700
Publisher: Sophia Perennis Et Universalis
Published: Sep 2 2016
Pages: 186
Weight: 0.62
Height: 0.43 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

In The Force of Tendernes, Dorothy Avery sets out Williiam Blake's vision of the sexes, and then applies it as a template to Western theories of women and men from the beginning. She is concerned with matriarchy and patriarchy in our own earliest history and pre-history. In Homer's Odyssey and Aeschylus' Oresteia she examines how far the theories of Blake and of the anthropologists are realized there. Avery has no axe to grind in the gender wars, except the notion that the touch of tenderness opens heaven. This excellent text is a valuable, and frequently ingenious, contribution to a field where testiness appears all too often in lieu balanced and wide-ranging testimony.

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