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"Reclaiming Klytemnestra explores the surprisingly numerous revisions by late twentieth-century women writers of the famous axe-wielding Greek queen who killed her husband in his bath when he returned from the Trojan War." "By slaying her husband, Klytemnestra exposed the competing ethics of motherhood and matrimony at the beginnings of the Western tradition. In this interdisciplinary study, Kathleen L. Komar first examines the classical archetype of Klytemnestra established by writers such as Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides. Turning to the twentieth century, she investigates the work of women who, since the 1960s, have reconceptualized Klytemnestra's actions and motivations in the contemporary contexts of dance, fiction, drama, poetry, and the Internet. These revisions include a Martha Graham ballet; a performance piece by multiple authors; a play by Dacia Maraini; novels by Christa Reinig, Nancy Bogen, Marie Cardinal, and Christa Wolf; a short story by Christine Bruckner; a poem by Laura Kennelly; a mixed-genre piece by Severine Auffret; and two Internet presentations."--Jacket.
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Adultery in literature, Clytemnestra (Greek mythology) in literature, History, History and criticism, Literature, Modern Literature, Revenge in literature, Women and literature, Women authors, Women murderers in literature, Literatur, Literaire thema's, Rezeption, In literature, Clytaemnestra, Literature, modern, history and criticism, 20th century, Literature, women authors, Mythology in literatureTimes
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Reclaiming Klytemnestra: revenge or reconciliation
2003, University of Illinois Press
in English
0252028112 9780252028113
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [195]-211) and index.
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