| Description |
1 online resource (x, 159 pages) |
| Contents |
Introduction : the mother's looking-glass -- Mother-daughter relationships in theory and text -- Revisions of motherhood and daughterhood -- Revision and repetition -- Through the looking glass : mirrors, fantasy, and reality -- Double vision : women and fantasy -- Epilogue |
| Summary |
Testing the relationship between feminist psychoanalytic theory and feminist retellings of fairy tales and myths in the 1970s and 1990s, Schanoes shows that these contemporaneous developments in theory and art advance complementary interpretations of the same themes. Her book posits a new model that emphasizes the interdependence of theory and art and challenges the notion that literary revision involves a masculinist struggle with the writer's artistic forbearers |
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At the same time that 1970s feminist psychoanalytic theorists like Jean Baker Miller and Nancy Chodorow were challenging earlier models that assumed the masculine psyche as the norm for human development and mental/emotional health, writers such as Anne Sexton, Olga Broumass, and Angela Carter were embarked on their own revisionist project to breathe new life into fairy tales and classical myths based on traditional gender roles. Similarly, in the 1990s, second-wave feminist clinicians continued the work begun by Chodorow and Miller, while writers of fantasy that include Terry Windling, Tanith Lee, Terry Pratchett, and Catherynne M. Valente took their inspiration from revisionist authors of the 1970s. As Schanoes shows, these two decades were both particularly fruitful eras for artists and psychoanalytic theorists concerned with issues related to the development of women's sense of self. Putting aside the limitations of both strains of feminist psychoanalytic theory, their influence is undeniable. Schanoes's book posits a new model for understanding both feminist psychoanalytic theory and feminist retellings, one that emphasizes the interdependence of theory and art and challenges the notion that literary revision involves a masculinist struggle with the writer's artistic forbearers |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 145-150) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Fairy tales -- History and criticism
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Psychoanalysis and literature.
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Feminist literary criticism.
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Feminism and literature.
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Mothers and daughters in literature.
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Feminist criticism.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Folklore & Mythology.
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Feminist criticism
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Fairy tales
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Feminism and literature
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Feminist literary criticism
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Mothers and daughters in literature
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Psychoanalysis and literature
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781409450443 |
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1409450449 |
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9781409450450 |
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1409450457 |
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9781472401380 |
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1472401387 |
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