The Medusa reader / edited by Marjorie Garber and Nancy J. Vickers.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Garber, Marjorie B.

Vickers, Nancy J.

Series:

Culture work

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medusa (Gorgon).

Medusa.

Physical Description:

xvi, 310 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2003.

Summary:

Fascinating and terrifying, the Medusa story has inspired writers and artists, anthropologists and psychoanalysts, political theorists and poets. The Medusa Reader traces her through the ages -- from classical myth through the Renaissance to our present-day concerns with psychoanalysis, pop culture, art, and fashion. This anthology brings together for the first time in one place the essential literary and philosophical passages as well as critical writing on Medusa. From Homer, Hesiod, and Euripides to Ovid, Lucan, and Fulgentius, from Dante, Petrarch, and Christine de Pizan to Vasari, Harington, and Bacon, from Goethe and Shelley to Nietzsche and Freud, from Walter Benjamin, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Sylvia Plath to Jacques Demida. Neil Hertz and Gianni Versace, Western culture has never flinched from Medusa's powerful gaze. With its broad range of materials, The Medusa Reader brings center-stage one of Western culture's most powerful and resonant myths. Includes thirty-two illustrations.

Contents:

1 from The Hiad (c. 750-725 B.C.E.) translated by Richmond Lattimore Medusa as Shield and Sign / Homer 9

2 from The Shield of Herakles and Theogony (c. 700 B.C.E.) translated by Richmond Lattimore Medusa and Perseus / Hesiod 11

3 "Pythian 12" (c. 490 B.C.E.) translated by Geoffrey S. Conway Medusa and Music / Pindar 14

4 from Ion (c. 413 B.C.E.) translated by Ronald Frederick Willetts The Power of Gorgon's Blood / Euripides 16

5 "The Daughters of Phorcys" (fourth century B.C.E.) from On Unbelievable Tales translated by Jacob Stern A Rationalist View / Palaephatus 20

6 from The Library (second century B.C.E.) translated by James George Frazer The Beauty of Medusa / Apollodorus 23

7 from The Historical Library (c. 60 30 B.C.E.) translated by G. Booth The Gorgons and the Amazons in Africa / Diodorus Siculus 26

8 from Metamorphoses (c. 43 B.C.E. 17 C.E.) translated by Rolfe Humphries The Story of Perseus / Ovid 30

9 from Pharsalia (c. 61-65) translated by Robert Graves Medusa and the Snakes of Libya / Lucan 40

10 from The Hall (c. 120-180) translated by A. M. Harmon The Sirens and the Gorgons / Lucian 43

11 from Description of Greece (c. 143-176) translated by W. H. S. Jones Another Rationalist View / Pausanias 44

12 from The Adventures of Leucippe and Clitophon (second century) translated by John Winkler Medusa and the Power of Ekphrasis / Achilles Tatius 45

13 from Mythologies (late fifth

early sixth centuries) translated by Leslie G. Whitbread Terror and Manliness / Fulgentius 47

14 from The Chronicle (sixth century) translated by Elizabeth Jeffreys, Michael Jeffreys, and Roger Scott The Sorcery of Perseus / John Malalas 49

15 from Inferno (c. 1310-1314) translated by Allen Mandelbaum Virgil, Dante, and Medusa / Dante Alighieri 51

16 Rime Sparse, #197 (c. 1327-1374) translated by Robert M. Durling / Petrarch 53

17 from On the Labors of Hercules (c. 1381-1391) translated by Lesley Lundeen Medusa as Artful Eloquence / Coluccio Salutati 54

18 from The Book of the City of Ladies (1405) translated by Earl Jeffrey Richards Medusa's Beauty / Christine de Pizan 57

19 from The Philosophy of Love (1535) translated by F. Friedeberg-Seeley and Jean H. Barnes Allegorical Meanings / Leone Ebreo 58

20 from the "Life of Leonardo da Vinci, Florentine Painter and Sculptor" (1550) translated by George Bull Leonardo Paints the Head of Medusa / Giorgio Vasari 60

21 from Mythologies (1551) translated by Anthony DiMatteo Beauty and Pleasure / Natale Conti 62

22 from Images of the Gods (1556) translated by Walter Hryshko Imaging Medusa / Vincenzo Cartari 64

23 from his preface to the Orlando Furioso (1591) Allegories of Man and Earth / John Harington 67

24 "Perseus, or War," from The Wisdom of the Ancients (1609) translated by James Spedding Tyranny and the Art of War / Francis Bacon 69

25 "The Statue of Medusa" (1616) / William Drummond 72

26 from Faust (1808) translated by Stuart Atkins Gretchen and Medusa / Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 73

27 "On the Medusa of Leonardo da Vinci in the Florentine Gallery" (1819) / Percy Bysshe Shelley 75

28 from Capital (1867) translated by Samuel Moore and Edward Aveling The Medusa of Capitalist Production / Karl Marx 77

29 "Aspecta Medusa" (1870) / Dante Gabriel Rossetti 79

30 from The Birth of Tragedy (1872) translated by Walter Kaufmann Medusa, Apollo, and Dionysus / Friedrich Nietzsche 80

31 "The Head and the Snakes" (1899) A Story for Children / David Starr Jordan 81

32 "Medusa" (1921) / Louise Bogan 83

33 "Medusa's Head" and from "The Infantile Genital Organization" (1922 and 1923) translated by James Strachey The Classic Psychoanalytic Reading / Sigmund Freud 84

34 from "On the Symbolism of the Head of Medusa" (1923) translated by Olive Edmonds Medusa and Castration / Sandor Ferenczi 87

35 "Medusa" (1935) / Countee Cullen 88

36 from "Paris, Capital of the Nineteenth Century" (1939) translated by Howard Eiland and Kevin McLaughlin Medusa and Modernity / Walter Benjamin 89

37 from Generation of Vipers (1942) Momism / Philip Wylie 90

38 from Being and Nothingness: A Phenomenological Essay on Ontology (1943) translated by Hazel E. Barnes The Other's Look / Jean-Paul Sartre 92

39 "Medusa" (1946) / James Merrill 94

40 from The Origins and History of Consciousness (1949) translated by R. F. C. Hull A Jungian View of the Terrible Mother / Erich Neumann 96

41 "Perseus" and "Medusa" (1958 and 1962) / Sylvia Plath 100

42 from The Mask of Medusa (1960) translated by George Ordish The Gorgon Mask / Roger Caillois 104

43 "Tableau Vivant" (1968) / Daryl Hine 106

44 "The Muse as Medusa" (1971) / May Sarton 107

45 from "Medusa: The Letter and the Spirit" (1972) On Dante's Medusa / John Freccero 109

46 "Medusa Head Picture" from Pleasures of Crewel (1972) Embroidering Your Own Medusa / Jo Springer 122

47 from "The Look of the Gorgon" (1974) Sartre and the Existentialist Medusa / Hazel Barnes 124

48 from Glas (1974) translated by John P. Leavey, Jr., and Richard Rand The Gorgon and the Jew / Jacques Derrida 128

49 from Roland Barthes (1975) translated by Richard Howard The Jellyfish "Medusa" and the Power to Stun / Roland Barthes 131

50 from "The Laugh of the Medusa" (1975) translated by Keith Cohen and Paula Cohen A Classic of Feminist Theory / Helene Cixous 133

51 "A Navy Blue Afro" (1976) / Colleen J. McElroy 135

52 from To Destroy Painting (1977) translated by Mette Hjort Caravaggio's "Head of Medusa": A Theoretical Perspective / Louis Marin 137

53 "Medusa" (1977) / Ann Stanford 161

54 from "Difference" (1978) On "The Look for the Woman" / Stephen Heath 163

55 from The Enigma of Woman: Woman in Freud's Writings (1980) translated by Catherine Porter A Feminist Rereading of Freud's Medusa / Sarah Kofman 165

56 from Medusa's Hair: An Essay on Personal Symbols and Religious Experience (1981) An Anthropological View / Gananath Obeyesekere 168

57 from "Medusa's Head: Male Hysteria under Political Pressure" (1983) Medusa in the French Revolution / Neil Hertz 173

58 from The Mirror of Medusa (1983) Medusa as Double / Tobin Siebers 196

59 from "Desire in Narrative" (1984) Medusa in Cinema / Teresa de Lauretis 198

60 from "The Voice of the Shuttle Is Ours" (1984) Rape and Silence in the Medusa Story / Patricia Klindienst Joplin 201

61 from "The Medusa Effect or, The Specular Ruse" (1984) Barbara Kruger and the Medusa Effect / Craig Owens 203

62 from "Death in the Eyes" and "In the Mirror of Medusa" (1985) translated by Thomas Curley and Froma I. Zeitlin Frontality and Monstrosity / Jean-Pierre Vernant 210

63 from "The blazon of sweet beauty's best': Shakespeare's Lucrece" (1985) The Face of Medusa / Nancy J. Vickers 232

64 from "Ancient Gorgons: A Face For Contemporary Women's Rage" (1986) Experiencing My Gorgon Self / Emily Erwin Culpepper 238

65 "Medusa" (1987) / Amy Clampitt 247

66 from "Macbeth: The Male Medusa" (1987) Shakespeare's "New Gorgon" / Marjorie Garber 249

67 "Medusa" (1989) / Rita Dove 258

68 "Grown Older ..." (1989) translated by Francis Michael Sharp Medusa by Free Association / Barbara Frischmuth 259

69 from The Jew's Body (1991) The Syphilitic Woman / Sander Gilman 261

70 "The Gorgon, Paradigm of Image Creation" (1993) translated by Seth Graebner Medusa as Maker of Images / Francoise Frontisi-Ducroux 262

71 from "Berggasse 19: Inside Freud's Office" (1996) Medusa in the Mirror / Diana Fuss, Joel Sanders 267

72 from "Who's looking at Who(m): Re-viewing Medusa" (1996) Medusa in Theater and Performance Art / Lizbeth Goodman 272

73 from "The Versace Moment" by Mark Seal (1996) Seduction / Gianni Versace 276.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [279]-301).

ISBN:

0415900980

0415900999

OCLC:

47237677