Unbinding Medea: Interdisciplinary Approaches to a Classical Myth from Antiquity to the 21st Century

ISBN-13: 9781906540531 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 352 str.

Heike Bartel; Anne Simon

Opis

Medea - simply to mention her name conjures up echoes and cross-connections from Antiquity to the present. The vengeful wife, the murderess of her own children, the frail, suicidal heroine, the archetypal Bad Mother, the smitten maiden, the barbarian, the sorceress, the abused victim, the case study for a pathology. For more than two thousand years, she has arrested the eye in paintings, reverberated in opera, called to us from the stage. She demands the most interdisciplinary of study, from ancient art to contemporary law and medicine; she is no more to be bound by any single field of study than by any single take on her character.

Spis treści

Part I: Departures 1. Medea and the Mind of the Murderer 2. How Medea Moves: Versions of a Myth in Apollonius and Elsewhere 3. A Stranger in a Strange Land: Medea in Roman Republican Tragedy 4. The Representation of Medea in the Roman House Part II: Visual Pathways 5. A New Medea' in Late Medieval French Narratives 6. Changing Perceptions: Medea as Paradigm of the Ideal Marriage 7. Medea, Frederick Sandys, and the Aesthetic Moment 8. John McNaughton's Wild Things: Pop Culture Echoes of Medea in the 1990s 9. Retrospectively Medea: The Infanticidal Mother in Alejandro Amenábar's Film The Others Part III: Theatrical Entrances 10. Revolutionary Medea 11. Transformations of Medea on the Eighteenth-Century German Stage 12. Dressing the 'Other', Dressing the 'Self' Clothing in the Medea Dramas of Euripides and Franz Grillparzer 13. Jay Scheib's The Medea as Postdramatic Performance Part IV: Appropriation and Exile 14. Three Medeas from Modern Ireland 15. Giving Birth to a New Woman: Italian Women Playwrights' Revisions of Medea 16. Myth and Ritual in The Hungry Woman: A Mexican Medea: Cherríe Moraga's Xicana-Indígena Interpretation of Euripides' Medea 17. Cultural Imperialism Pasolini's and Infanticide in Medea 18. Mediation or Refraction? Marie Luise Kaschnitz's Edition and Reception of Grillparzer's Medea Part V: Laws of Containment and Disruption 19. The Maternal Contract in Beloved and Medea 20. A Thoroughly Modern Medea': The Fear of Female Insubordination in Euripides' Medea and Contemporary Legislative Policy 21. Legal Myth-Making 22. Fatal Outcomes of Fabricated or Induced Illness: A Modern Medea 23. The Medea Gene

O autorze

Heike Bartel