The Callisto myth from Ovid to Atwood : initiation and rape in literature / Kathleen Wall.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wall, Kathleen, 1950-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Callisto (Greek mythology) in literature.

Initiations in literature.

Women in literature.

Rape in literature.

Callisto (Greek mythological character)--In literature.

Callisto.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (227 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Kingston [Ont.] : McGill-Queen's University Press, c1988.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The Callisto myth demonstrates the vulnerability of women to the power of the patriarchy. Kathleen Wall opens her analysis with a discussion of the classical versions of the Callisto myth. She draws a discrete parallel between Callisto's rape by Zeus and the traditional rape of femininity by the patriarchy and its institutions.

Contents:

Front Matter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Classical Versions and Their Implications

Callisto in the Medieval and Renaissance Traditions

A Mask Presented At Ludlow Castle: The Armour of Logos

Mysteries of Udolpho: Mysteries of the Forest

Jane Eyre: Even Plain Jane Can Be a Nymph

The Scarlet Letter: The Power of Society’s Sacred Sanctions

Adam Bede: Woman Empowered

Tess of the D’Urbervilles: The Maid Who Went to the Merry Green Wood

Lady Chatterley’s Lover: Liberating the Myth

Surfacing: The Matriarchal Myth Re-surfaces

Beyond Rape

Appendices

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliography and index.

ISBN:

1-282-85105-5

9786612851056

0-7735-6156-0

OCLC:

929121124