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Zusatztext ...a good and useful book. Informationen zum Autor Vanda Zajko is Lecturer in Classics and Ancient History, University of Bristol.Miriam Leonard is Lecturer in Classics and Ancient History, University of Bristol. Klappentext Laughing with Medusa explores the reception of classical myth within feminist writing across a wide range of subject areas, including poetry, philosophy, science, politics, critical theory, and psychoanalysis. It makes the claim that myth has been central to the formulation and development of feminist thought and politics, and examines the conceptual opposition between mythic and rational thought, interrogating its implications for feminism. Zusammenfassung Explores the reception of classical myth within feminist writing across a range of subject areas, including philosophy, science, politics, and psychoanalysis. This book claims that myth has been central to the formulation and development of feminist thought and politics, and examines the conceptual opposition between mythic and rational thought. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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 ...

Product details

• Authors: Miriam Leonard, Vanda Zajko
• Assisted by: Leonard Miriam (Editor), Zajko Vanda (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 12.01.2006
• EAN: 9780199274383
• ISBN: 978-0-19-927438-3
• No. of pages: 464
• Dimensions: 144 mm x 222 mm x 30 mm
• Series: Classical Presences
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Folklore & Mythology, LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory, LITERARY CRITICISM / Feminist, Folklore, myths & legends, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Feminism & feminist theory, Literary theory, Feminism and feminist theory, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, Folklore studies / Study of myth (mythology)