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The Medusa Gaze in Contemporary Women's Fiction : Petrifying, Maternal and Redemptive.

This book offers striking insights into the desires and frustrations of women through the narratives of impressive contemporary novelists. Crafting its analysis on the gaze as presented by Lacan and Sartre, the book demonstrates how the subject creates her own ego against her alter egos or hostile o...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Alban, Gillian M. E.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Newcastle-upon-Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a Table of Contents; List of Illustrations; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Chapter One; The Ego-Forming Mirror and Gaze; The Look of the Medusa Head-Reverted with Laughter; Learning before the Mirror; The Alienating Mirror Gaze; The Apotropaic, Petrifying Medusa Gaze; The Objectifying Medusa Gaze; Chapter Two; Looking-Glass Vision and the Double; Beautified Marionette Dolls; Objectified Puppets; Joint Shadows and Mirrored Images; Overlapping Alter Egos and Doppelgängers; Symbiotic Sisters; Destruction or Reciprocity; Chapter Three; The Terrible Medusa Mother. 
505 8 |a Mother as MonstrousMedea: The Mother's Devouring Love; The Abandoning Mother and Daughterly Longing; Electra Hate or Reluctant Symbiosis; Electra Love-Hate and Paternal Longing; Chapter Four; Sacrifice in Mothering; Birth and Mothering: The Thing Itself; Tough Mother or Grandma; Matriarchal Survivors; Demeter/Persephone; Mother-Daughter Longing; Maternal Longing at All Cost; Chapter Five; Divine Goddess; Ancient Goddesses Images; Alternate Gospels' Madonna; Redemptive Female Divinity; Medusa's Redemptive Evil Eye; Madonna Visions; Mother Goddess Satire; Chapter Six; Power Crazed Women. 
505 8 |a Monstrous WitchPredator and Her Victims; Terribly Fascinating Interrelationships; Medusa Fury; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index. 
520 |a This book offers striking insights into the desires and frustrations of women through the narratives of impressive contemporary novelists. Crafting its analysis on the gaze as presented by Lacan and Sartre, the book demonstrates how the subject creates her own ego against her alter egos or hostile others in the mirrors facing her, offering insight into women's powers and weaknesses. The first two mirroring chapters trace the women stalking its pages under a panoptic gaze, as they learn how to revert their look defiantly back onto others. Some win assurance through their own assertive gaze; oth. 
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