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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 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 commisssioned work of fiction! Iphigeneia's Wedding'! by the poet Elizabeth Cook. Zusammenfassung 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. 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 ...
