Vanda Zajko / Miriam Leonard (eds.)

Laughing with Medusa

Classical Myth and Feminist Thought
Ed. by Vanda Zajko a. Miriam Leonard

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Produktbeschreibung

A groundbreaking study of the role of classical myth within feminist writing.

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A collection of essays on the reception of classical myth within feminist writing across a wide range of subject areas, including poetry, philosophy, science, politics, critical theory, and psychoanalysis. The contributors show that myth has been central to the formulation and development of feminist thought and politics.

Produktdetails

• Classical Presences
• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 460
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Januar 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 570g
• ISBN-13: 9780199237944
• ISBN-10: 0199237948
• Artikelnr.: 23169564

Autorenporträt

Vanda Zajko is Lecturer in Classics and Ancient History, University of Bristol. Miriam Leonard is Lecturer in Classics and Ancient History, University of Bristol.

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction
* I. Myth and Psychoanalysis
* Hope, Promise, Threaten, and Swear: Psychoanalytic Myths of the
Future for Boys and Girls
* `Who are we when we read?' Keats, Klein, Cixous, and Elizabeth Cook's
Achilles
* Beyond Oedipus: Feminist Thought, Psychoanalysis, and Mythical
Figurations of the Feminine
* 2. Myth and Politics
* Lacan, Irigaray, and Beyond: Antigones and the Politics of
Psychoanalysis
* Antigone and the Politics of Sisterhood
* Fascism on Stage: Jean Anouilh's Antigone
* 3. Myth and History
* A Woman's History of Warfare
* Beyond glorious Ocean': Feminism, Myth, and America
* 4. Myth and Science
* Atoms, Individuals, and Myths
* The Philosopher and the Mother Cow: Towards a Gendered Reading of
Lucretius' De Rerum Natura
* Science Fictions and Cyber Myths: Or, Do Cyborgs Dream of Dolly the
Sheep?
* 5. Myth and Poetry
* Putting the Women Back into the Hesiodic Catalogue of Women
* Reclaiming the Muse
* Defying History: The Legacy of Helen in Modern Poetry
* `This tart fable': Daphne, Apollo, and Contemporary Women's Poetry
* Iphigeneia's Wedding