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Author Huber, Barbara Weir, 1943-

Title Transforming Psyche / Barbara Weir Huber.

Publication Info. Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, [1999]
©1999

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Description 1 online resource (244 pages)
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Contexts and Circumstances -- Narcissus and Echo -- Introducing Psyche, Attending Aphrodite -- Green World -- Learning Transformation -- Eros, Psyche, and N(arr)ativity -- Voluptas beyond the Ending -- Lifeprints -- Retelling Psyche -- Apuleius's Cupid and Psyche.
Summary "Barbara Weir Huber explores the myth of Psyche, interweaving research from such diverse disciplines as current feminist and educational theories, mythology, literature, psychology, and cultural anthropology. She offers an original, critical reinterpretation of the myth, highlighting the way it overtly portrays female experience in a patriarchal context while covertly affirming all aspects of female life." "In Transforming Psyche Huber shows that the myth of Psyche and Eros can be interpreted to illuminate the experiences of twentieth-century women. In contrast to the portrayal of Psyche as indecisive and amorphous, Huber emphasizes those aspects of the tale that describe Psyche's connectedness - to her sisters, her own sexuality, her earthbound experience, and, ultimately, to the birthing of her child." "Using the works of such writers as Emily Carr, Margaret Laurence, Gertrude Stein, and Virginia Woolf, Huber demonstrates that feminist theory and women's autobiography mirror the insights uncovered in her retelling of the Psyche story. Book jacket."--Jacket.
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Subject Apuleius <Madaurensis>.
Metamorphoses 4,28-6,24.
Women -- Psychology.
Women -- Psychology.
Psyche (Greek deity)
Psyche (Greek deity)
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Subject Women.
Womyn.
Other Form: Print version: Huber, Barbara Weir, 1943- Transforming Psyche. Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, ©1999 (DLC) 99900355
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