Laughing with Medusa

Classical Myth and Feminist Thought
Erscheinungsjahr 2008
ISBN: 978-0-19-923794-4
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, 460 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 644 g

Reihe: Classical Presences

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Leonard, Miriam

Zajko, Vanda

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Lateinische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Kinder- und Jugendliteratur, Märchen, Mythen, Sagen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literatursoziologie, Gender Studies
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Griechische & Byzantinische Literatur

Über Autor(innen)

Vanda Zajko is Lecturer in Classics and Ancient History, University of Bristol.

Miriam Leonard is Lecturer in Classics and Ancient History, University of Bristol.