Cultural Reflections of Medusa: The Shadow in the Glass

ISBN-13: 9781032082950 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 188 str.

Jennifer Hedgecock

Opis

This project studies the patterns in which the Medusa myth shapes, constructs and transforms new meanings of women today, correlating portrayals in ancient Greek myth, nineteenth century Symbolist painting and new, controversial, visions of women in contemporary art.

Spis treści

Introduction: The shadow in the glass

Part I The myth

1 The modern Medusa

2 The historical and mythical origins of Medusa

3 Symbolism in the Medusa myth: The decapitated head of Medusa

Part II Symbolist interpretations of Medusa

4 Jean Delville and The Idol of Perversity

5 Medusean images in paintings by Franz von Stuck

6 Edvard Munch and the fatal woman of Medusa

Part III Medusa in the twenty-first century: Identifying the woman in the mirror

7 Nan Goldin and a new vision of Medusa

8 Liz Craft and the all knowing "I"

O autorze

Jennifer Hedgecock is Professor of English at Saddleback College and teaches Shakespeare’s plays, early British literature, and world literature. She has also taught at the University of California, Irvine and Michigan State University. Her publications include The Sexual Threat and Danger of the Femme Fatale in Victorian Literature (2008) and “William Blake and The Road to Hell: Demystifying the Cultural Iconoclasm of the Hells Angels,” in Rethinking Madness: Interdisciplinary and Multicultural Reflections (2019).