The Medusa reader
Title:
The Medusa reader
Author:
Garber, Marjorie B.
Publication Information:
New York : Routledge, [2003]
©2003
Physical Description:
xvi, 310 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language:
English
Contents:
Homer from the Iliad -- Hesiod from The shield of Herakles & Theogony -- Pythian 12 /Pindar -- Euripides from Ion -- Daughters of Phorcys / Palaephatus -- Apollodorus from The library -- Diodorus Siculus from The historical library -- Ovid from Metamorphoses -- Lucan from Pharsalia -- Lucian from The hall -- Pausanias from Description of Greece -- Achilles Tatius from The adventures of Leucippe and Clitophon -- Fulgentius from Mythologies -- John Malalas from The chronicle -- Dante Alighieri from Inferno -- Rime sparse, # 197 / Petrarch -- Coluccio Salutati from On the labors of Hercules --Christine de Pizan from The book of the city of ladies -- Leone Ebreo from The philosophy of love -- Giorgio Vasari from The life of Leonardo da Vinci -- Natale Conti from Mythologies -- Vincenzo Cartari from Images of the gods -- John Harington from his preface to the Orlando furioso -- Perseus, or War, from The wisdom of the ancients / Francis Bacon -- Statue of Medusa / William Drummond -- Goethe from Faust -- On the Medusa of Leonardo da Vinci / Percy Bysshe Shelley -- Karl Marx from Capital -- Aspecta Medusa / Dante Gabriel Rossetti -- Friedrich Nietzche from The birth of tragedy --Head and the snakes / David Starr Jordan -- Medusa / Louise Bogan -- Medusa's head and from The infantile genital organization / Sigmund Freud -- Sandor Ferenczi from On the symbolism of the head of Medusa -- Medusa / Countee Cullen -- Walter Benjamin from Paris, capital of the nineteenth century -- Philip Wylie from Generation of vipers -- Jean-Paul Sartre from Being and nothingness -- Medusa / James Merrill -- Erich Neumann from The origins and history of consciousness -- Perseus & Medusa / Sylvia Plath -- Roger Caillois from The mask of Medusa -- Tableau vivant / Daryl Hine -- Muse as Medusa / May Sarton -- John Freccero from Medusa -- Medusa head picture from Pleasures of crewel / Jo Springer -- Hazel Barnes from The look of the Gorgon -- Jacques Derrida from Glas -- Roland Barthes from Roland Barthes -- Helene Cixous from The laugh of the Medusa -- Navy blue afro / Colleen J. McElroy -- Louis Marin from To destroy painting -- Medusa / Ann Stanford --Stephen Heath from Difference -- Sarah Kofman from The enigma of woman -- Gananath Obeyesekere from Medusa's hair -- Neil Hertz from Medusa's head -- Tobin Siebers from The mirror of Medusa -- Teresa de Lauretis from Desire in narrative -- Patricia K. Joplin from The voice of the shuttle is ours -- Craig Owens from The Medusa effect -- Jean-Pierre Vernant from Death in the eyes & In the mirror of Medusa -- Nancy J. Vickers from The blazon of sweet beauty's best -- Emily E. Culpepper from Ancient Gorgons -- Medusa / Amy Clampitt -- Marjorie Garber from Macbeth -- Medusa / Rita Dove -- Grown older / Barbara Frischmuth -- Sander Gilman from The Jew's body -- Gorgon / Francoise Frontisi-Ducroux -- D. Fuss and J. Sanders from Berggasse 19 -- Lizbeth Goodman from Who's looking at who(m) -- Gianni Versace from The Versace moment / Mark Seal.
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ISBN:
9780415900980
9780415900997
Format :
Book