Callisto Myth from Ovid to Atwood : Initiation and Rape in Literature.
Title:
Callisto Myth from Ovid to Atwood : Initiation and Rape in Literature.
Author:
Wall, Kathleen.
ISBN:
9780773561564
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (238 pages)
Contents:
Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Classical Versions and Their Implications -- 2 Callisto in the Medieval and Renaissance Traditions -- 3 A Mask Presented at Ludlow Castle: The Armour of Logos -- 4 Mysteries of Udolpho: Mysteries of the Forest -- 5 Jane Eyre: Even Plain Jane Can Be a Nymph -- 6 The Scarlet Letter: The Power of Society's Sacred Sanctions -- 7 Adam Bede: Woman Empowered -- 8 Tess of the D'Urbervilles: The Maid Who Went to the Merry Green Wood -- 9 Lady Chatterley's Lover: Liberating the Myth -- 10 Surfacing: The Matriarchal Myth Re-surfaces -- 11 Beyond Rape -- Appendices -- A: The Callisto Story According to Hesiod -- B: The Callisto Story According to Apollodorus -- C: The Callisto Story According to Hyginus -- D: The Callisto Story According to Ovid -- E: The Callisto Story According to Pausanias -- F: From Charles Anthon: A Classical Dictionary -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.
Abstract:
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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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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