Women as Mythmakers: Poetry and Visual Art by Twentieth-Century Women

by Estella Lauter

Overview

". . . impressive work of scholarship . . ." —Exceptional Human Experience

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780253203250
Publisher:	Indiana University Press
Publication date:	07/22/1984
Series:	Midland Books Series
Pages:	288
Sales rank:	954,636
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.25(h) x (d)
Age Range:	18 Years

Table of Contents

Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Steps toward a Feminist Archetypal Theory of Mythmaking
Part One: Individual Visions
Chapter 1 Anne Sexton's Radical Discontent
Chapter 2 Kathe Kollwitz: The Power of the Mother (with Dominique Rozenberg)
Chapter 3 Margaret Atwood: Remythologizing Circe
Chapter 4 Remedios Varo: The Creative Woman and the Female Quest
Chapter 5 DIane Wakoski: Disentangling the Woman from the Moon
Chapter 6 Leonor Fini: Re-envisioning La Belle Dame sans Merci
Part Two: Collective Visions
Chapter 7 Mythic Patterns in Contemporary Visual Art by Women
Chapter 8 "Woman and Nature" Revisited in Poetry by Women
Conclusion The Light In in Us
Notes
Bibliography
Index