附註:Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-180) and index.
Cover Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 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 -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
摘要:"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.
