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

Publication Info. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 445 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Classical presences
Classical presences.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 411-436) and index.
Contents 1. The Cronos complex : psychoanalytic myths of the future for boys and girls / Rachel Bowlby -- 2. Who are we when we read? : Keats, Klein, Cixous, and Elizabeth Cook's Achilles / Vanda Zajko -- 3. Beyond Oedipus : feminist thought, psychoanalysis, and mythical figurations of the feminine / Griselda Pollock -- 4. Lacan, Irigaray, and beyond : Antigones and the politics of psychoanalysis / Miriam Leonard -- 5. Antigone and the politics of sisterhood / Simon Goldhill -- 6. Fascism on stage : Jean Anouilh's Antigone / Katie Fleming -- 7. A woman's history of warfare / Ellen O'Gorman -- 8. Beyond glorious ocean : feminism, myth, and America / Gregory Staley -- 9. Atoms, individuals, and myths / Duncan Kennedy -- 10. The philosopher and the mother cow : towards a gendered reading of Lucretius, De rerum natura / Alison Sharrock -- 11. Science fictions and cyber myths, or, Do cyborgs dream of Dolly the sheep? / Genevieve Liveley -- 12. Putting the women back into the Hesiodic Catalogue of women / Lillian Doherty -- 13. Reclaiming the muse / Penny Murray -- 14. Defying history : the legend of Helen in modern Greek poetry / Efi Spentzou -- 15. This tart fable : Daphne, and Apollo in modern women's poetry / Rowena Fowler -- 16. Iphigeneia's wedding / Elizabeth Cook.
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Subject Mythology in literature.
Mythology in literature.
Feminism and literature.
Feminism and literature.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Zajko, Vanda.
Leonard, Miriam.
Other Form: Print version: Laughing with Medusa. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006 019927438X (DLC) 2005023127 (OCoLC)61285536
ISBN 9780191556920 (electronic book)
0191556920 (electronic book)
019927438X (Cloth)
9780199274383 (Cloth)