Description: Laughing With Medusa : Classical Myth And Feminist Thought, Hardcover by Zajko, Vanda (EDT); Leonard, Miriam (EDT), ISBN 019927438X, ISBN-13 9780199274383, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US Classical Presences Series Editors: Lorna Hardwick, Professor of Classical Studies, Open University, and James I. Porter^, Professor of Greek, Latin, and Comparative Literature, University of Michigan The texts, ideas, images, and material culture of ancient Greece and Rome have always been crucial to attempts to appropriate the past in order to authenticate the present. They underlie the mapping of change and the assertion and challenging of values and identities, old and new. Classical Presences brings the latest scholarship to bear on the contexts, theory, and practice of such use, and abuse, of the classical past. Laughing with Medusa explores a series of inter-linking 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 center 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 commissioned work of fiction, "Iphigeneia's Wedding," by the poet Elizabeth Cook.
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Book Title: Laughing With Medusa : Classical Myth And Feminist Thought
Number of Pages: 464 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Laughing with Medusa : Classical Myth and Feminist Thought
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication Year: 2006
Item Height: 1.3 in
Subject: Subjects & Themes / Women, Ancient & Classical
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 30.7 Oz
Author: Miriam Leonard
Subject Area: Literary Criticism
Item Length: 8.8 in
Series: Classical Presences Ser.
Item Width: 5.7 in
Format: Hardcover
