Callisto Myth from Ovid to Atwood: Initiation and Rape in LiteratureMcGill-Queen's Press - MQUP, 1 jul 1988 - 240 pagina's 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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... sense - authority over and control of another - has been motherhood ; and even this aspect , as we shall see , has been wrenched and manipulated to male control ... The idea of maternal power has been domes- ticated . In transfiguring ...
... sense - authority over and control of another - has been motherhood ; and even this aspect , as we shall see , has been wrenched and manipulated to male control ... The idea of maternal power has been domes- ticated . In transfiguring ...
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Inhoudsopgave
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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 |
Index | 223 |
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 Geen voorbeeld beschikbaar - 1988 |
Veelvoorkomende woorden en zinsdelen
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
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Pagina 51 - Tis chastity, my brother, chastity : She that has that, is clad in complete steel, And like a quiver'd nymph with arrows keen May trace huge forests, and unharbour'd heaths, Infamous hills, and sandy perilous wilds, Where through the sacred rays of chastity, No savage, fierce bandite, or mountaineer Will dare to soil her virgin purity...
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Pagina 99 - By another impulse, she took off the formal cap that confined her hair; and down it fell upon her shoulders, dark and rich, with at once a shadow and a light in its abundance, and imparting the charm of softness to her features. There played around her mouth, and beamed out of her eyes, a radiant and tender smile, that seemed gushing from the very heart of womanhood.
Pagina 84 - Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain, and little, I am soulless and heartless ? You think wrong ! — I have as much soul as you, — and full as much heart ! And if God had gifted me with some beauty, and much wealth, I should have made it as hard for you to leave me, as it is now for me to leave you.
Pagina 52 - Of dragon watch with unenchanted eye, To save her blossoms and defend her fruit From the rash hand of bold incontinence.
Pagina 96 - The tendency of her fate and fortunes had been to set her free. The scarlet letter was her passport into regions where other women dared not tread. Shame, Despair, Solitude! These had been her teachers, — stern and wild ones, — and they had made her strong, but taught her much amiss.