| Description |
vi, 234 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-228) and index. |
| Contents |
Motherhood in prehistory: attachment patterns and the origin of religion -- The nature of the goddess: ominous, transformative, nurturing; three persons in one goddess -- Fiction as process and the deprecation of the goddess: Atalanta, Cassandra and Ariadne -- Self-deprecation and ostracism in Homer -- The reconstructed divinity: Danae, Athena and Pandora -- The feminine principle in classical Athens; cultural imprimatur of second stratum archetypes -- Euripides -- |
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Merging traditions of goddess deprecation: the heroism of Eve -- Rediscovering the goddess -- The Chthonic aspect as a source of strength in twentieth-century American heroines -- Chthonic renewal: irrational modes in Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant, The Good Mother and The Color Purple -- The Chthonic as metaphor. |
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Women in literature.
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Heroines in literature.
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Goddesses in literature.
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Archetype (Psychology) in literature.
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Myth in literature.
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Feminism and literature.
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Literature -- History and criticism.
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| ISBN |
0899506151 library binding alkaline paper |
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