The Callisto myth from Ovid to Atwood : initiation and rape in literature / / Kathleen Wall

• Autore: Wall Kathleen <1950->
• Pubblicazione: Kingston [Ont.] : , : McGill-Queen's University Press, , 1988; ©1988
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (227 pages)
• Disciplina: 809/.93352042
• Soggetto topico: Callisto (Greek mythology) in literature; Initiations in literature; Women in literature; Rape in literature
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliography and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: The Callisto myth from Ovid to Atwood
• ISBN: 1-282-85105-5; 9786612851056; 0-7735-6156-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910782726803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II