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UNINA9910823744703321 |
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Autore |
Wall Kathleen <1950-> |
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Titolo |
The Callisto myth from Ovid to Atwood : initiation and rape in literature / / Kathleen Wall |
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Kingston [Ontario] : , : McGill-Queen's University Press, , 1988 |
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©1988 |
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ISBN |
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1-282-85105-5 |
9786612851056 |
0-7735-6156-0 |
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Edizione |
[First edition.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (227 pages) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Initiations in literature |
Women in literature |
Rape in literature |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliography and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Front Matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Classical Versions and Their Implications -- Callisto in the Medieval and Renaissance Traditions -- A Mask Presented At Ludlow Castle: The Armour of Logos -- Mysteries of Udolpho: Mysteries of the Forest -- Jane Eyre: Even Plain Jane Can Be a Nymph -- The Scarlet Letter: The Power of Society’s Sacred Sanctions -- Adam Bede: Woman Empowered -- Tess of the D’Urbervilles: The Maid Who Went to the Merry Green Wood -- Lady Chatterley’s Lover: Liberating the Myth -- Surfacing: The Matriarchal Myth Re-surfaces -- Beyond Rape -- Appendices -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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The Callisto myth demonstrates the vulnerability of women to the power of the patriarchy. Kathleen Wall opens her analysis with a discussion of the classical versions of the Callisto myth. She draws a discrete parallel between Callisto's rape by Zeus and the traditional rape of femininity by the patriarchy and its institutions. |
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