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Deliberately out of bounds : women's work on classical myth in nineteenth-century American fiction /
Nymphs, maenads, goddesses, and heroines from classical myth populate nineteenth-century American women writers' fiction in exhilaratingly innovative, often multilayered and complex reconfigurations. Based on Hans Blumenberg's notion of artists' ongoing "work on myth" and Ab...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Heidelberg :
Universitätsverlag Winter,
[2017]
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| Colección: | American studies (Munich, Germany) ;
v. 282. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Titel; Imprint; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments ; 1 Introduction: Classical Myth and Nineteenth-Century American Women's Fiction; 1.1 Women Writers' Innovative Work on Myth, 1800-1900 ; 1.2 Literature Review ; 2 Myth, ""Pathos Formulae"", and Women's Revisionist Mythmaking; 2.1 Working on Myth with Pathos Formulae ; 2.2 ""Pathos Formulae"" and the Polarity of the Symbol.
- 2.3 Deliberately Out of Bounds: Women's Work on Classical Myth 3 Dionysian Frenzies in Catharine Maria Sedgwick's A New- England Tale ; 3.1 Maenad-in-Motion ; 3.2 What Manner of Intoxication ; 3.2.1 Inspired to Love, Inspired to Live: Bet and Jane as True Dionysian Followers.
- 3.2.2 Apollo's Mission: Reward vs. Punishment 3.2.3 The Dionysian Frenzy of Everyday Life in Sedgwick's Social Canvas ; 3.3 The Artistic Layering of Sedgwick's Realist Mythology ; 4 The Trials of Psyche: Ancient Mysteries in Lydia Maria Child's Philothea
- 4.1 Deficient in Repose ; 4.2 Synthomorphosis and Metamorphosis in Philothea
- 4.2.1 Philothea and the Love of the Soul 4.2.2 Philothea and Sacred Marriage ; 4.2.3 Philothea, the Panathenaia, and Domestic Ideology; 4.2.4 From Eve to Psyche: Eudora's Temptation and Sophrosyne
- 4.2.5 Eudora's/Psyche's Ascent ; 4.3 The Language of the Ancient Mysteries ; 4.4 Philothea, Eudora, and the Archive of (Mental) Images.
- 5 Jason and the Sphinx: Elizabeth Stoddard's Discrepant New England Mythologies 5.1 The Writings of Elizabeth Stoddard ; 5.2 Stoddard's Two Men
- 5.3 Two Men, Two Jasons ; 5.3.1 Jason, Stranger among the Boston Brahmins ; 5.3.2 Parke, A High Culture Hero in Crisis.