Myth and violence in the contemporary female text : new Cassandras / [edited by] Sanja Bahun-Radunović and V.G. Julie Rajan.

• Introduction: Cassandra's gift -- Part I. Myth, violence, border-crossing: global expressions of self and society. "A terror to gods and men" and themselves: the furies collective, the myth of the angry lesbian, and theatrics of terrorism / Sara Warner -- Monkey fragments: paternity, ancestry, and Chineseness in Patricia Chao's The monkey king / Belinda Kong -- The ethics of animal-human existence: Marie Darrieussecq's Truismes / Sanja Bahun-Radunovic -- "Whom did you lose first, yourself or me?" the feminine and the mythic in Indian cinema / Shreerekha Subramanian -- The fatal effects of Phaedra's Loveah Kane / Anja Müller-Wood -- Part II. Of archetypes, creativity and ethics: inscribing the feminine in mythistory. The body and the voice: Marina Tsvetaeva's The Sibyl and Phaedra / Olga Hasty -- Re-writing myth, femininity and violence in Margaret Atwood's The Penelopiad / Elodie Rousselot -- Making patriarchal history women's own: Eugenia Fakinou's The seventh garment / Tatjana Aleksi -- Flawed heroes, fragmented heroines: the use of myth in cinema writing / Sue Clayton -- Part III. Instead of an afterword. Lot's wife / Kiki Smith -- Introduction to Cancellanda / Marina Warner -- Cancellanda / Marina Warner.

Ämnesord

Myter i litteraturen  (sao)

Våld i litteraturen  (sao)

Politiska och sociala åsikter  (sao)

Myth in literature.  (LCSH)

Violence in literature.  (LCSH)

Myth in motion pictures.  (LCSH)

Violence in motion pictures.  (LCSH)

Literature  -- Women authors -- History and criticism. (LCSH)

Women and literature  -- History -- 20th century. (LCSH)

Women authors  -- 20th century -- Political and social views. (LCSH)

Kvinnor och litteratur  -- historia -- 1900-talet (sao)

Kvinnliga författare  -- historia -- 1900-talet (sao)

Violence in literature  (LCSH)

Klassifikation

PN471 (LCC)

809.915082 (DDC)