The Callisto myth from Ovid to Atwood : initiation and rape in literature /
The Callisto myth demonstrates the vulnerability of women to the power of the patriarchy. Kathleen Wall opens her analysis with a discussion of the classical versions of the Callisto myth. She draws a discrete parallel between Callisto's rape by Zeus and the traditional rape of femininity by th...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Kingston [Ont.] :
McGill-Queen's University Press,
©1988.
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- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Classical Versions and Their Implications
- 2 Callisto in the Medieval and Renaissance Traditions
- 3 A Mask Presented at Ludlow Castle: The Armour of Logos
- 4 Mysteries of Udolpho: Mysteries of the Forest
- 5 Jane Eyre: Even Plain Jane Can Be a Nymph
- 6 The Scarlet Letter: The Power of Society's Sacred Sanctions
- 7 Adam Bede: Woman Empowered
- 8 Tess of the D'Urbervilles: The Maid Who Went to the Merry Green Wood
- 9 Lady Chatterley's Lover: Liberating the Myth
- 10 Surfacing: The Matriarchal Myth Re-surfaces11 Beyond Rape
- Appendices
- A: The Callisto Story According to Hesiod
- B: The Callisto Story According to Apollodorus
- C: The Callisto Story According to Hyginus
- D: The Callisto Story According to Ovid
- E: The Callisto Story According to Pausanias
- F: From Charles Anthon: A Classical Dictionary
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
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