| Description |
xvi, 336 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction : Medea, meetings in borderland / Heike Bartel and Anne Simon -- Medea and the mind of the murderer / Edith Hall -- How Medea moves : versions of a myth in Apollonius and elsewhere / Richard Buxton -- A stranger in a strange land : Medea in Roman Republican tragedy / Robert Cowan -- The representation of Medea in the Roman house / Margherita Carucci -- A new Medea in late medieval French narratives / Catherine Leǵlu -- Changing perceptions : Medea as paradigm of the ideal marriage / Ekaterini Kepetzis -- Medea, Frederick Sandys, and the aesthetic moment / Elizabeth Prettejohn -- John McNaughton's Wild things : pop culture echoes of Medea in the 1990s / John Thorburn -- Retrospectively Medea : the infanticidal mother in Alejandro Amenábar's film The others / Isabelle Torrance -- Revolutionary Medea / Amy Wygant -- Transformations of Medea on the eighteenth-century German stage / Yixu Lü -- Dressing the other, dressing the self : clothing in the Medea dramas of Euripides and France Grillparzer / Heike Bartel -- Jay Scheib's The Medea as postdramatic performance / Peter A. Campbell -- Three Medeas from modern Ireland / Brian Arkins -- Giving birth to a new woman : Italian women playwrights' revisions of Medea / Daniela Cavallaro -- Myth and ritual in The hungry woman : a Mexican Medea : Cherrié Moraga's Xicana-Indiǵena interpretation of Euripides' Medea / Paula Straile-Costa -- Cultural imperialism and infanticide in Pasolini's Medea / Ivar Kvistad -- Mediation or refraction? : Marie Luise Kaschnitz's edition and reception of Grillparzer's Medea / Anthony Bushell -- The maternal contract in Beloved and Medea / Hilary Emmett -- A thoroughly modern Medea : the fear of female insubordination in Euripides' Medea and contemporary legislative policy / Angela J. Burns -- Legal myth-making : Medea and the legal representation of the feminine other / Edward Phillips -- Fatal outcomes of fabricated or induced illness : a modern Medea / Terence Stephenson -- The Medea gene / Laurence D. Hurst |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Medea, consort of Aegeus, King of Athens (Mythological character)
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| Author |
Bartel, Heike.
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Simon, Anne.
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| ISBN |
9781906540531 hardback |
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1906540535 hardback |
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