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050 00 $aPR6052.Y2$bP6315 2003
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100 1 $aAlban, Gillian M. E.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2002047638
245 10 $aMelusine the serpent goddess in A. S. Byatt's Possession and in mythology /$cGillian M. E. Alban.
260 $aLanham, Md. :$bLexington Books,$c[2003], ©2003.
300 $axiii, 308 pages :$billustrations ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [289]-295) and index.
505 00 $tForeword /$rThelma Shinn Richard -- $gPt. I.$tMelusine and the Snake Goddess -- $g1.$tInto the Garden, Melusine! The Tale in Byatt's Possession -- $g2.$tThe Aquatic Great Goddess -- $g3.$tThe Ophidian Goddess in Gylanic Times -- $gPt. II.$tLove and the Holy Marriage -- $g4.$tThe Meeting and Marriage of Melusine and Raimondin -- $g5.$tKeats' Lamia in the Cevennes -- $g6.$tSexual Love in the Ancient Holy Marriage -- $g7.$tThe Goddess as Wife or Mother of God -- $gPt. III.$tMother and Creation -- $g8.$tThe Creative Snake Goddess -- $g9.$tFrom Creatrix to Monster -- $g10.$tMere Lucine, Echidna: Mother of Monsters -- $g11.$tSerpent Goddess Atargatis and Queen Semiramis -- $gPt. IV.$tThe Curse and Death -- $g12.$tThe Prohibition of Melusine Resulting from Her Curse -- $g13.$tLilith, Medusa, and Scylla: Rapacious Females -- $g14.$tSnake under the Tree in Paradise: Asherah Suppressed.
520 1 $a"In this work, Gillian M. E. Alban provides both a scholastically rigorous and highly poetic examination of the snake-woman image, the Fairy Melusine, in modern and ancient texts. Beginning with the plot and poetic language of A. S. Byatt's novel Possession, Alban tracks Melusine into medieval legend and farther back to her antecedents in ancient myth. The book describes Melusine's love story and illuminates her many similarities to goddesses such as Lamia, Ishtar, Isis, and Asherah.
520 8 $aAlban stresses how, as mother, creator, and leader, the figure of Melusine was ultimately vilified and converted into the demon of patriarchal belief systems, as seen in the examples of Lilith, Medusa, Scylla, and the serpent in the Garden. The author becomes the goddess's rescuer as she seeks to reconstruct ancient tales about Melusine, unsullied by patriarchal revisionism. A forceful exploration of literature, history, and myth, this study seeks to destroy limiting assumptions about the female sex.
520 8 $aAlban's work restores the dignity of an ancient and once-revered mythological figure and makes an important statement about the power and creativity of women."--BOOK JACKET.
600 10 $aByatt, A. S.$q(Antonia Susan),$d1936-$tPossession.
600 10 $aByatt, A. S.$q(Antonia Susan),$d1936-$xKnowledge and learning.
650 0 $aMythology.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85089371
650 0 $aMelusine (Legendary character) in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh94006465
650 0 $aMelusine (Legendary character)$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85083455
650 0 $aMythology in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85089438
650 0 $aGoddesses in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh94004477
650 0 $aSerpents in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85120316
650 0 $aFairies in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh94004149
650 0 $aWomen in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85147587
852 00 $bglx$hPR6052.Y2$iP6315 2003
852 00 $bbar$hPR6052.Y2$iP6315 2003