Unbinding Medea
Subtitle: interdisciplinary approaches to a classical myth from antiquity to the 21st century
By: edited by Heike Bartel and Anne Simon
Publisher: Legenda
Published: 2010
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9781906540531
Subjects: Medea (Greek mythology)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction :; title: Medea, meetings in borderland  -- Heike Bartel and Anne Simon; title: Medea and the mind of the murderer  -- Edith Hall; title: How Medea moves :; title: versions of a myth in Apollonius and elsewhere  -- Richard Buxton; title: A stranger in a strange land :; title: Medea in Roman Republican tragedy  -- Robert Cowan; title: The representation of Medea in the Roman house  -- Margherita Carucci; title: A new Medea in late medieval French narratives  -- Catherine Léglu; title: Changing perceptions :; title: Medea as paradigm of the ideal marriage  -- Ekaterini Kepetzis; title: Medea, Frederick Sandys, and the aesthetic moment  -- Elizabeth Prettejohn; title: John McNaughton's Wild things :; title: pop culture echoes of Medea in the 1990s  -- John Thorburn; title: Retrospectively Medea :; title: the infanticidal mother in Alejandro Amenábar's film The others  -- Isabelle Torrance; title: Revolutionary Medea  -- Amy Wygant; title: Transformations of Medea on the eighteenth-century German stage  -- Yixu Lü; title: Dressing the other, dressing the self :; title: clothing in the Medea dramas of Euripides and France Grillparzer  -- Heike Bartel; title: Jay Scheib's The Medea as postdramatic performance  -- Peter A. Campbell; title: Three Medeas from modern Ireland  -- Brian Arkins; title: Giving birth to a new woman :; title: Italian women playwrights' revisions of Medea  -- Daniela Cavallaro; title: Myth and ritual in The hungry woman :; title: a Mexican Medea : Cherríe Moraga's Xicana-Indígena interpretation of Euripides' Medea  -- Paula Straile-Costa; title: Cultural imperialism and infanticide in Pasolini's Medea  -- Ivar Kvistad; title: Mediation or refraction? :; title: Marie Luise Kaschnitz's edition and reception of Grillparzer's Medea  -- Anthony Bushell; title: The maternal contract in Beloved and Medea  -- Hilary Emmett; title: A thoroughly modern Medea :; title: the fear of female insubordination in Euripides' Medea and contemporary legislative policy  -- Angela J. Burns; title: Legal myth-making :; title: Medea and the legal representation of the feminine other  -- Edward Phillips; title: Fatal outcomes of fabricated or induced illness :; title: a modern Medea  -- Terence Stephenson; title: The Medea gene -- Laurence D. Hurst.