Research Catalog

Title

Unbinding Medea : interdisciplinary approaches to a classical myth from antiquity to the 21st century / edited by Heike Bartel and Anne Simon.

Publication

London : Legenda, 2010.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Bartel, Heike.
• Simon, Anne.

Description

xvi, 336 p. : ill. (some col.); 26 cm.

Subject

Medea consort of Aegeus, King of Athens (Mythological character)

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction : Medea, meetings in borderland / Heike Bartel and Anne Simon -- Medea and the mind of the murderer / Edith Hall -- How Medea moves : versions of a myth in Apollonius and elsewhere / Richard Buxton -- A stranger in a strange land : Medea in Roman Republican tragedy / Robert Cowan -- The representation of Medea in the Roman house / Margherita Carucci -- A new Medea in late medieval French narratives / Catherine Léglu -- Changing perceptions : Medea as paradigm of the ideal marriage / Ekaterini Kepetzis -- Medea, Frederick Sandys, and the aesthetic moment / Elizabeth Prettejohn -- John McNaughton's Wild things : pop culture echoes of Medea in the 1990s / John Thorburn -- Retrospectively Medea : the infanticidal mother in Alejandro Amenábar's film The others / Isabelle Torrance -- Revolutionary Medea / Amy Wygant -- Transformations of Medea on the eighteenth-century German stage / Yixu Lü -- Dressing the other, dressing the self : clothing in the Medea dramas of Euripides and France Grillparzer / Heike Bartel -- Jay Scheib's The Medea as postdramatic performance / Peter A. Campbell -- Three Medeas from modern Ireland / Brian Arkins -- Giving birth to a new woman : Italian women playwrights' revisions of Medea / Daniela Cavallaro -- Myth and ritual in The hungry woman : a Mexican Medea : Cherríe Moraga's Xicana-Indígena interpretation of Euripides' Medea / Paula Straile-Costa -- Cultural imperialism and infanticide in Pasolini's Medea / Ivar Kvistad -- Mediation or refraction? : Marie Luise Kaschnitz's edition and reception of Grillparzer's Medea / Anthony Bushell -- The maternal contract in Beloved and Medea / Hilary Emmett -- A thoroughly modern Medea : the fear of female insubordination in Euripides' Medea and contemporary legislative policy / Angela J. Burns -- Legal myth-making : Medea and the legal representation of the feminine other / Edward Phillips -- Fatal outcomes of fabricated or induced illness : a modern Medea / Terence Stephenson -- The Medea gene / Laurence D. Hurst.

Call Number

JFF 11-284

ISBN

• 9781906540531 (hbk.)
• 1906540535 (hbk.)

OCLC

640085473

Title

Unbinding Medea : interdisciplinary approaches to a classical myth from antiquity to the 21st century / edited by Heike Bartel and Anne Simon.

Imprint

London : Legenda, 2010.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Bartel, Heike.

Simon, Anne.

Research Call Number

JFF 11-284