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Women as mythmakers : poetry and visual art by twentieth-century women

Title
Women as mythmakers : poetry and visual art by twentieth-century women / Estella Lauter.
Author
Lauter, Estella, 1940-
Publication
  • Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [1984]
  • ©1984

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Description
xvii, 267 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
Subject
  • 1900-1999
  • Feminism and the arts
  • Women artists
  • Women poets
  • Art and mythology
  • Arts, Modern > 20th century
  • Arts, Modern
  • Kunst
  • Dichtkunst
  • Vrouwen
  • Mythologie
  • Women poets > 20th century
  • Women artists > 20th century
Note
  • Includes index.
Bibliography (note)
  • Bibliography: p. 247-260.
Contents
Introduction: Steps toward a feminist archetypal theory of mythmaking -- pt. 1. Individual visions: ch. 1. Anne Sexton's radical discontent -- ch. 2. Käthe Kollwitz: the power of the mother (with Dominique Rozenberg) -- ch. 3. Margaret Atwood: remythologizing Circe -- ch. 4. Remedios Varo: the creative woman and the female quest -- ch. 5. Diane Wakoski: disentangling the woman from the moon -- ch. 6. Léonor Fini: re-envisioning La belle dame sans merci -- pt. 2. Collective visions: ch. 7. Mythic patterns in contemporary visual art by women -- ch. 8. "Woman and nature" revisited in poetry by women -- Conclusion: The light is in us.
ISBN
  • 0253366062
  • 9780253366061
  • 0253203252
  • 9780253203250
LCCN
83048636
OCLC
  • ocm10162146
  • 10162146
  • SCSB-603572
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library