Wombiness
Mary Lefkowitz, 4 November 1993
In and Out of the Mind: Images of the Tragic Self
by Ruth Padel.
Princeton, 210 pp., £18, July 1992,0 691 07379 1 Show More
by Ruth Padel.
Princeton, 210 pp., £18, July 1992,
The Age of Grace: Charis in Early Greek Poetry
by Bonnie MacLachlan.
Princeton, 192 pp., £21.50, August 1993,0 691 06974 3 Show More
by Bonnie MacLachlan.
Princeton, 192 pp., £21.50, August 1993,
“... most attractive concepts, charis, the grace or pleasure that results from mutual exchange. Bonnie MacLachlan shows, with a light touch appropriate to her subject, that the term can be applied to almost all aspects of life. The standard farewell, chaire, means (in effect) ‘charis to you.’ An honorarium or tip is a form of charis; charis quite ... ”
