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The historical enigma of the snake woman from antiquity to the 21st century /
This book provides an exploration of the historical conditions that gradually defined subordinating symbols and conflictual values in social relations between the sexes. It reveals how snakes and the gelid eyes of Medusa--the archetypical snake-woman--have reverberated across the visual arts and wri...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés Italiano |
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Newcastle upon Tyne, UK :
Cambridge Scholars Publishing,
2017.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro; Table of Contents; List of Illustrations; Introduction; Chapter One; The Gorgons and the gorgoneia; Venerable monsters; A taste of the Classical Medusa myths; A stroll with the bogey-woman-no walk in the; Metamorphoses; "My Name Is Red"; The Juice of Life; Hypatia's Curse; "Two eyes hurt you but three eyes heal"; Our Ladies of Serpents; Among the living Goddesses ... ; ... and the Goddesses of Terror were born; Medusa the Magistra; The "Empire of Man"; In the world of Telemachus; On the stage of infamy; A 'Wonder' Gorgon; Chapter Two; Mirrors on the past; From repellent to powerless
- Identifying the OtherStereotypes; The Hybrids; The iconography of "mournful thoughts"; Fear Itself; Monster-women on film; Chapter Three; In the chaos of the night; "With a terror similar to ... "; "Medusa, come ...!"; The snake as the emblem of Otherness; Women & snakes; "And do you not know that you are each an Eve?"; Unclean; The Poison-Damsel; Visual teachings; Lessons at Court; L'Atelier des femmes; Hildegard of Bingen; Trotula de Ruggiero; Christine de Pizan; "A great beauty"; Chapter Four; Infinite Varieties; Headhunters; Cold, serpentine art; A vital spark; Conclusion; Select Bibliography