| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 445 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Classical presences |
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Classical presences.
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| Contents |
The Cronos complex : psychoanalytic myths of the future for boys and girls / Rachel Bowlby -- 'Who are we when we read?' : Keats, Klein, Cixous, and Elizabeth Cook's Achilles / Vanda Zajko -- Beyond Oedipus : feminist thought, psychoanalysis, and mythical figurations of the feminine / Griselda Pollock -- Lacan, Irigaray, and beyond : Antigones and the politics of psychoanalysis / Miriam Leonard -- Antigone and the politics of sisterhood / Simon Goldhill -- Fascism on stage : Jean Anouilh's Antigone / Katie Fleming -- A woman's history of warfare / Ellen O'Gorman -- 'Beyond glorious ocean' : feminism, myth, and America / Gregory Staley -- Atoms, individuals, and myths / Duncan Kennedy -- The philosopher and the mother cow : towards a gendered reading of Lucretius, De rerum natura / Alison Sharrock -- Science fictions and cyber myths, or, Do cyborgs dream of Dolly the sheep? / Genevieve Liveley -- Putting the women back into the Hesiodic Catalogue of women / Lillian Doherty -- Reclaiming the muse / Penny Murray -- Defying history : the legend of Helen in modern Greek poetry / Efi Spentzou -- 'This tart fable' : Daphne and Apollo in modern women's poetry / Rowena Fowler -- Iphigeneia's wedding / Elizabeth Cook |
| Summary |
"Laughing with Medusa explores a series of interlinking questions, including: Does history's self-positioning as the successor of myth result in the exclusion of alternative narratives of the past? How does feminism exclude itself from certain historical discourses? Why has psychoanalysis placed myth at the centre of its explorations of the modern subject? Why are the Muses feminine? Do the categories of myth and politics intersect or are they mutually exclusive? Does feminism's recourse to myth offer a script of resistance or commit it to an ineffective utopianism? Covering a wide range of subject areas including poetry, philosophy, science, history, and psychoanalysis as well as classics, this book engages with these questions from a truly interdisciplinary perspective. It includes a specially commissioned work of fiction, Ìphigeneia's Wedding', by the poet Elizabeth Cook."--Publisher's description |
| Notes |
Originally published: 2006 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Mythology, Classical, in literature.
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Feminist literature -- History and criticism
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Feminism and literature.
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Feminism and literature
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Feminist literature
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Mythology, Classical, in literature
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Zajko, Vanda
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Leonard, Miriam
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| ISBN |
9780191706455 |
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0191706450 |
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9780199237944 |
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0199237948 |
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