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The historical enigma of the snake woman from antiquity to the 21st century / by Angela Giallongo ; translated by Anna C. Forster.
Van Pelt Library BL820.M38 G53 2017
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Giallongo, Angela, author.
- Language:
- English
- Italian
- Subjects (All):
- Medusa (Gorgon).
- Medusa.
- Women--Mythology.
- Women.
- Serpents--Mythology.
- Serpents.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 281 pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017.
- Contents:
- Chapter 1 What Does Myth Teach Us? p. 10
- The Gorgons and the gorgoneia p. 11
- Venerable monsters p. 15
- A taste of the Classical Medusa myths p. 18
- A stroll with the bogey-woman-no walk in the park p. 26
- Metamorphoses p. 29
- "My Name Is Red" p. 31
- The Juice of Life p. 34
- Hypatia's Curse p. 37
- "Two eyes hurt you but three eyes heal" p. 44
- Our Ladies of Serpents p. 50
- Among the living Goddesses p. 63
- ... and the Goddesses of Terror were born p. 65
- Medusa the Magistra p. 66
- The "Empire of Man" p. 67
- In the world of Telemachus p. 70
- On the stage of infamy: an American nightmare p. 73
- A 'Wonder' Gorgon p. 75
- Chapter 2 What an Ugly Face! p. 77
- Mirrors on the past p. 82
- From repellent to powerless p. 85
- Identifying the Other p. 98
- Stereotypes p. 112
- The Hybrids p. 121
- The iconography of "mournful thoughts" p. 128
- Fear Itself p. 134
- Monster-women on film p. 137
- Chapter 3 In the Nocturnal Regime of the Medieval Imaginary p. 141
- In the chaos of the night p. 141
- "With a terror similar to..." p. 146
- "Medusa, come...!" p. 149
- The snake as the emblem of Otherness p. 152
- Women & snakes p. 166
- "And do you not know that you are each an Eve?" p. 167
- Unclean p. 175
- The Poison-Damsel p. 184
- Visual teachings p. 199
- Lessons at Court p. 205
- L'Atelier des femmes p. 213
- Hildegard of Bingen p. 213
- Trotula de Ruggiero p. 217
- Christine de Pizan p. 219
- "A great beauty" p. 223
- Chapter 4 An Ongoing Dialogue with the Past p. 232
- Infinite Varieties p. 235
- Headhunters p. 239
- Cold, serpentine art p. 245
- A vital spark p. 250.
- Notes:
- Translated from the Italian.
- ISBN:
- 9781527503052
- 1527503054
- OCLC:
- 1005868977
- Publisher Number:
- 99975437545
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