1.

Record Nr.

UNINA990005258660403321

Autore

Grundy, G. B.

Titolo

The great Persian war and its preliminaries : A study of the evidence,literary and topographical / by G.B. Grundy

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : AMS Press, 1969

Descrizione fisica

XIII, 591 p., 1 c. rip. ; 22 cm

Disciplina

938.03

Locazione

FLFBC

Collocazione

938.03 GRU 1

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910634056803321

Autore

Sempruch Justyna

Titolo

Fantasies of Gender and the Witch in Feminist Theory and Literature / / Justyna Sempruch

Pubbl/distr/stampa

West Lafayette, Ind., : Purdue University Press, c2008

ISBN

9781612498997

161249899X

9781612490281

161249028X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (viii, 190 p. )

Collana

Comparative cultural studies

Disciplina

305.4201

Soggetti

Witches in literature

Women in literature

Feminist criticism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes bibliographical references (p. 174-182 ) and index.



Sommario/riassunto

In Fantasies of Gender and the Witch in Feminist Theory and Literature, Justyna Sempruch analyzes contemporary representations of the "witch" as a locus for the cultural negotiation of genders. Sempruch revisits some of the most prominent traits in past and current perceptions in feminist scholarship of exclusion and difference. She examines a selection of twentieth-century US American, Canadian, and European narratives to reveal the continued political relevance of metaphors sustained in the archetype of the "witch" widely thought to belong to pop-cultural or folkloristic formulations of the past. Through a critical rereading of the feminist texts engaging with these metaphors, Sempruch develops a new concept of the witch, one that challenges traditional gender-biased theories linking it either to a malevolent "hag" on the margins of culture or to unrestrained "feminine" sexual desire. Sempruch turns, instead, to the causes for radical feminist critique of "feminine" sexuality as a fabrication of logocentric thinking and shows that the problematic conversion of the "hag" into a "superwoman" can be interpreted today as a therapeutic performance translating fixed identity into a site of continuous negotiation of the subject in process. Tracing the development of feminist constructs of the witch from 1970s radical texts to the present, Sempruch explores the early psychoanalytical writings of Cixous, Kristeva, and Irigaray, and feminist reformulations of identity by Butler and Braidotti, with fictional texts from different political and cultural contexts.