Myth and violence in the contemporary female text : new Cassandras

Myth and violence in the contemporary female text new Cassandras

Introduction: Cassandra's giftPart I. Myth, violence, border-crossing: global expressions of self and society: "A terror to gods and men" and themselves: the furies collective, the myth of the angry lesbian, and theatrics of terrorism / Sara Warner; Monkey fragments: paternity, ancest...

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Weitere Verfasser: Bahun, Sanja (HerausgeberIn), Rajan, V. G. Julie (BerichterstatterIn)
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Sprache:eng
Veröffentlicht: Farnham, Surrey u.a. Ashgate 2011
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Literature > Women authors > Women and literature > History > Political and social views > Myth in literature > Violence in literature > Myth in motion pictures > Violence in motion pictures > Fiktionale Darstellung
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Zusammenfassung:Introduction: Cassandra's giftPart I. Myth, violence, border-crossing: global expressions of self and society: "A terror to gods and men" and themselves: the furies collective, the myth of the angry lesbian, and theatrics of terrorism / Sara Warner; Monkey fragments: paternity, ancestry, and Chineseness in Patricia Chao's The monkey king / Belinda Kong; The ethics of animal-human existence: Marie Darrieussecq's Truismes / Sanja Bahun-Radunovic; "Whom did you lose first, yourself or me?" the feminine and the mythic in Indian cinema / Shreerekha Subramanian; The fatal effects of Phaedra's Loveah Kane / Anja Müller-Wood -- Part II. Of archetypes, creativity and ethics: inscribing the feminine in mythistory: The body and the voice: Marina Tsvetaeva's The Sibyl and Phaedra / Olga Hasty; Re-writing myth, femininity and violence in Margaret Atwood's The Penelopiad / Elodie Rousselot; making patriarchal history women's own: Eugenia Fakinou's The seventh garment / Tatjana Aleksi; flawed heroes, fragmented heroines: the use of myth in cinema writing / Sue Clayton -- Part III. Instead of an afterword: Lot's wife / Kiki Smith; Introduction to Cancellanda / Marina Warner ; Cancellanda / Marina Warner.
Introduction: Cassandra's gift -- Part I. Myth, violence, border-crossing: global expressions of self and society: "A terror to gods and men" and themselves: the furies collective, the myth of the angry lesbian, and theatrics of terrorism / Sara Warner; Monkey fragments: paternity, ancestry, and Chineseness in Patricia Chao's The monkey king / Belinda Kong; The ethics of animal-human existence: Marie Darrieussecq's Truismes / Sanja Bahun-Radunovic; "Whom did you lose first, yourself or me?" the feminine and the mythic in Indian cinema / Shreerekha Subramanian; The fatal effects of Phaedra's Loveah Kane / Anja Müller-Wood -- Part II. Of archetypes, creativity and ethics: inscribing the feminine in mythistory: The body and the voice: Marina Tsvetaeva's The Sibyl and Phaedra / Olga Hasty; Re-writing myth, femininity and violence in Margaret Atwood's The Penelopiad / Elodie Rousselot; making patriarchal history women's own: Eugenia Fakinou's The seventh garment / Tatjana Aleksi; flawed heroes, fragmented heroines: the use of myth in cinema writing / Sue Clayton -- Part III. Instead of an afterword: Lot's wife / Kiki Smith; Introduction to Cancellanda / Marina Warner ; Cancellanda / Marina Warner
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:XII, 214 S.
Ill.
ISBN:9781409400011
978-1-4094-0001-1