Laughing with Medusa : classical myth and feminist thought / edited by Vanda Zajko and Miriam Leonard.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Zajko, Vanda, editor.

Leonard, Miriam, editor.

Series:

Classical Presences

Classical presences Laughing with Medusa

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mythology, Classical, in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (445 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"Laughing with Medusa" explores a series of interlinking 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 centre 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 commisssioned work of fiction, "'Iphigeneia's Wedding", by the poet Elizabeth Cook.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

List of Illustrations

List of Contributors

Introduction

PART I. Myth and Psychoanalysis

1. The Cronus Complex: Psychoanalytic Myths of the Future for Boys and Girls

2. 'Who are we when we read?': Keats, Klein, Cixous, and Elizabeth Cook's Achilles

3. Beyond Oedipus: Feminist Thought, Psychoanalysis, and Mythical Figurations of the Feminine

PART II. Myth and Politics

4. Lacan, Irigaray, and Beyond: Antigones and the Politics of Psychoanalysis

5. Antigone and the Politics of Sisterhood

6. Fascism on Stage: Jean Anouilh's Antigone

PART III. Myth and History

7. A Woman's History of Warfare

8. 'Beyond glorious Ocean': Feminism, Myth, and America

PART IV. Myth and Science

9. Atoms, Individuals, and Myths

10. The Philosopher and the Mother Cow: Towards a Gendered Reading of Lucretius, De Rerum Natura

11. Science Fictions and Cyber Myths: or, Do Cyborgs Dream of Dolly the Sheep?

PART V. Myth and Poetry

12. Putting the Women Back into the Hesiodic Catalogue of Women

13. Reclaiming the Muse

14. Defying History: The Legacy of Helen in Modern Greek Poetry

15. 'This tart fable': Daphne, and Apollo in Modern Women's Poetry

16. Iphigeneia's Wedding

Select Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-280-75790-6

9786610757909

0-19-155692-0

1-4237-6793-4

OCLC:

1027127267