Format:
1 Online-Ressource (206 pages)
ISBN:
9789004350816
Series Statement:
At the Interface - Probing the Boundaries volume 90
Content:
Preliminary Material /Melissa Dearey , Roger Davis and Susana Nicolás -- Introduction /Melissa Dearey , Roger Davis and Susana Nicolás -- Maud Allan, the Cult of the Clitoris and the Future of Britain /Anthony Patterson -- Pola Negri’s Star Persona in America of the 1920s /Agata Frymus -- Seduction and Sex: The Changing Allure of the Femme Fatale in Fact and Fiction /Kirsten Smith -- Monstrous Beauty, Monstrous Strength: The Case of the Mermaid /David Farnell and Rute Noiva -- Cutting Narrative Ties: Sacrifice and Transformation in Medea /Colin Dignam -- ‘She Sleeps inside like a Lion and a Lamb and a Child’: Revisiting Shakespeare’s Female Evil through Edward Bond’s Lear /Susana Nicolás -- The Season of the Witch: Gender Trouble in American Horror Story-Coven /Elisabete Lopes -- Memory, Agency, Subjectivity: Lisbeth Salander and the Flashes Back to the Past in the Millennium Films /Tiina Mäntymäki -- Laura Palmer: Intertextual Temptress /Anne Bettina Pedersen.
Content:
Reflecting current trends in scholarly analysis of evil and the feminine, the chapters contained in Re-visiting Female Evil focus upon various ‘re-interpretations’ of evil femininities as a cultural signifier of agency, transgression and crisis, re-interpreting them through rewriting of ‘other’ stories, hermeneutic re-interpretations of ancient/classical texts, and revised film/ stage adaptations. These papers illustrate how gendered cultural myths of women’s intrinsic connection to evil still persist in today’s patriarchal society, though in variant and updated forms. Mischievous, beguiling, seductive, lascivious, unruly, carping, vengeful and manipulative – from the Disney princess to the murderous Medea, these authors grapple with our understanding of what it is to be and do ‘evil’, exploring the possible sources of the fear and hatred of women and the feminine as well as their continual fascination and appeal, and how these manifest in a range of 'real life' and fictional narratives that cross times, cultures and media
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9789004350397
Additional Edition:
Print version Dearey, Melissa Re-Visiting Female Evil : Power, Purity and Desire Boston : BRILL,c2017 ISBN 9789004350397
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Re-visiting female evil Leiden : Brill Rodopi, 2017 ISBN 9789004350397
Language:
English
Subjects:
Sociology
Keywords:
Frau
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Das Böse
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Literatur
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Film
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Aufsatzsammlung
DOI:
10.1163/9789004350816
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