Laughing with Medusa : classical myth and feminist thought /
Laughing with Medusa : classical myth and feminist thought /
edited by Vanda Zajko and Miriam Leonard.
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.
- 1 online resource (xiv, 445 pages) : illustrations.
- Classical presences .
- Classical presences. .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 411-436) and index.
1. The Cronos complex : psychoanalytic myths of the future for boys and girls / Rachel Bowlby -- 2. Who are we when we read? : Keats, Klein, Cixous, and Elizabeth Cook's Achilles / Vanda Zajko -- 3. Beyond Oedipus : feminist thought, psychoanalysis, and mythical figurations of the feminine / Griselda Pollock -- 4. Lacan, Irigaray, and beyond : Antigones and the politics of psychoanalysis / Miriam Leonard -- 5. Antigone and the politics of sisterhood / Simon Goldhill -- 6. Fascism on stage : Jean Anouilh's Antigone / Katie Fleming -- 7. A woman's history of warfare / Ellen O'Gorman -- 8. Beyond glorious ocean : feminism, myth, and America / Gregory Staley -- 9. Atoms, individuals, and myths / Duncan Kennedy -- 10. The philosopher and the mother cow : towards a gendered reading of Lucretius, De rerum natura / Alison Sharrock -- 11. Science fictions and cyber myths, or, Do cyborgs dream of Dolly the sheep? / Genevieve Liveley -- 12. Putting the women back into the Hesiodic Catalogue of women / Lillian Doherty -- 13. Reclaiming the muse / Penny Murray -- 14. Defying history : the legend of Helen in modern Greek poetry / Efi Spentzou -- 15. This tart fable : Daphne, and Apollo in modern women's poetry / Rowena Fowler -- 16. Iphigeneia's wedding / Elizabeth Cook.
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.
9780191556920 (electronic bk.) 0191556920 (electronic bk.) 019927438X (Cloth) 9780199274383 (Cloth)
Mythology in literature.
Feminism and literature.
Mythologie dans la littérature.
TRAVEL--Special Interest--Literary.
LITERARY CRITICISM--General.
Feminism and literature.
Mythology in literature.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
PN56.M95 / L38 2006eb
809/.915
Includes bibliographical references (pages 411-436) and index.
1. The Cronos complex : psychoanalytic myths of the future for boys and girls / Rachel Bowlby -- 2. Who are we when we read? : Keats, Klein, Cixous, and Elizabeth Cook's Achilles / Vanda Zajko -- 3. Beyond Oedipus : feminist thought, psychoanalysis, and mythical figurations of the feminine / Griselda Pollock -- 4. Lacan, Irigaray, and beyond : Antigones and the politics of psychoanalysis / Miriam Leonard -- 5. Antigone and the politics of sisterhood / Simon Goldhill -- 6. Fascism on stage : Jean Anouilh's Antigone / Katie Fleming -- 7. A woman's history of warfare / Ellen O'Gorman -- 8. Beyond glorious ocean : feminism, myth, and America / Gregory Staley -- 9. Atoms, individuals, and myths / Duncan Kennedy -- 10. The philosopher and the mother cow : towards a gendered reading of Lucretius, De rerum natura / Alison Sharrock -- 11. Science fictions and cyber myths, or, Do cyborgs dream of Dolly the sheep? / Genevieve Liveley -- 12. Putting the women back into the Hesiodic Catalogue of women / Lillian Doherty -- 13. Reclaiming the muse / Penny Murray -- 14. Defying history : the legend of Helen in modern Greek poetry / Efi Spentzou -- 15. This tart fable : Daphne, and Apollo in modern women's poetry / Rowena Fowler -- 16. Iphigeneia's wedding / Elizabeth Cook.
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.
9780191556920 (electronic bk.) 0191556920 (electronic bk.) 019927438X (Cloth) 9780199274383 (Cloth)
Mythology in literature.
Feminism and literature.
Mythologie dans la littérature.
TRAVEL--Special Interest--Literary.
LITERARY CRITICISM--General.
Feminism and literature.
Mythology in literature.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
PN56.M95 / L38 2006eb
809/.915