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Ashgate, Routledge
Language
English
Pages
214

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Cover of: Myth and Violence in the Contemporary Female Text
Myth and Violence in the Contemporary Female Text: New Cassandras
2016, Taylor & Francis Group
in English
Cover of: Myth and Violence in the Contemporary Female Text
Myth and Violence in the Contemporary Female Text: New Cassandras
2016, Taylor & Francis Group
in English
Cover of: Myth and Violence in the Contemporary Female Text
Myth and Violence in the Contemporary Female Text: New Cassandras
2016, Taylor & Francis Group
in English
Cover of: Myth and Violence in the Contemporary Female Text
Myth and Violence in the Contemporary Female Text: New Cassandras
2016, Taylor & Francis Group
in English
Cover of: Myth and Violence in the Contemporary Female Text
Myth and Violence in the Contemporary Female Text: New Cassandras
2016, Taylor & Francis Group
in English
Cover of: Myth and violence in the contemporary female text
Myth and violence in the contemporary female text: new Cassandras
2011, Ashgate, Routledge
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Table of Contents

Introduction: Cassandra's gift
Part I. Myth, violence, border-crossing: global expressions of self and society: "A terror to gods and men" and themselves: the furies collective, the myth of the angry lesbian, and theatrics of terrorism / Sara Warner; Monkey fragments: paternity, ancestry, and Chineseness in Patricia Chao's The monkey king / Belinda Kong; The ethics of animal-human existence: Marie Darrieussecq's Truismes / Sanja Bahun-Radunovic; "Whom did you lose first, yourself or me?" the feminine and the mythic in Indian cinema / Shreerekha Subramanian; The fatal effects of Phaedra's Loveah Kane / Anja Müller-Wood
Part II. Of archetypes, creativity and ethics: inscribing the feminine in mythistory: The body and the voice: Marina Tsvetaeva's The Sibyl and Phaedra / Olga Hasty; Re-writing myth, femininity and violence in Margaret Atwood's The Penelopiad / Elodie Rousselot; making patriarchal history women's own: Eugenia Fakinou's The seventh garment / Tatjana Aleksi; flawed heroes, fragmented heroines: the use of myth in cinema writing / Sue Clayton
Part III. Instead of an afterword: Lot's wife / Kiki Smith; Introduction to Cancellanda / Marina Warner ; Cancellanda / Marina Warner.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Burlington, VT

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Dewey Decimal Class
809/.915082
Library of Congress
PN471 .M97 2011, PN471.M97 2011, PN471 .M98 2016

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Pagination
xii, 214 p. :
Number of pages
214

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Open Library
OL25059683M
ISBN 13
9781409400011
LCCN
2010052538
OCLC/WorldCat
973026412, 694509759

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