Callisto Myth from Ovid to Atwood: Initiation and Rape in LiteratureMcGill-Queen's Press - MQUP, 01.07.1988 - 240 Seiten Kathleen Wall traces the myth through fifteen works of English, American, and Canadian literature, providing a fresh, feminist reading of these narratives. Among the works analysed are selections by Margaret Atwood, Charlotte Bronte, Thomas Hardy, and George Elliot. The resulting text reveals many facets of the realities of women's experience from the Middle Ages to the twentieth century. And ultimately, Wall shows rape to be an expression of dominance rather than lust, giving increased support to the definition suggested by feminists. Wall demonstrates that the Callisto myth is a powerful archetype which illustrates both the victimization of women and their search for independence and autonomy, an archetype that should not be ignored by modern women. |
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1 Classical Versions and Their Implications | 10 |
2 Callisto in the Medieval and Renaissance Traditions | 26 |
The Armour of Logos | 47 |
Mysteries of the Forest | 62 |
Even Plain Jane Can Be a Nymph | 76 |
The Power of Societys Sacred Sanctions | 94 |
Woman Empowered | 107 |
Liberating the Myth | 137 |
The Matriarchal Myth Resurfaces | 155 |
11 Beyond Rape | 171 |
Appendices | 185 |
Notes | 193 |
Bibliography | 207 |
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The Maid Who Went to the Merry Green Wood | 119 |
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The Callisto Myth from Ovid to Atwood: Initiation and Rape in Literature Kathleen Wall Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 1988 |
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
Adam Bede Alec animal Arcas Archetypal Artemis aspect attitude Atwood's aware bear beauty becomes Bertha Brontë Callisto figure Callisto myth character chastity Clare Comus Connie Connie's criticism D.H. Lawrence d'Urberville Diana Diana's band Dimmesdale Dinah disguise Eliot Emily Emily's emotional exile experience fate father feels female feminine feminist forest girl goddess Hardy Hardy's Hawthorne Hawthorne's Hera heroine Hester Prynne Hetty Hetty Sorrel hierogamy initiation Jane Eyre Jane's Jupiter Jupiter's Lady Chatterley's Lover Lawrence's Lefevre's logical Logos Lycaon male marriage marry masculine masque Mellors Metamorphoses Milton's Montoni moon moral mother motherhood Mysteries of Udolpho myth of Callisto mythic narrator narrator's natural world novel nymph Ovid Ovid's passion passivity patriarchal psychological virginity qualities rape refusal Renaissance ritual Rochester Rochester's sacred Scarlet Letter seduction sense sexual social society St Aubert suggests symbolizes Tess Tess's Thomas Hardy tion transformation Valancourt wasteland woman Woman's Mysteries womanhood women Wragby Zeus