كتاب
Persephone rises, 1860-1927: mythography, gender, and the creation of a new spirituality
| العنوان: | Persephone rises, 1860-1927: mythography, gender, and the creation of a new spirituality |
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| المؤلفون: | Louis, Margot Kathleen, 1954-2007. |
| بيانات النشر: | Farnham, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2009. |
| سنة النشر: | 2009 |
| وصف مادي: | xiv, 171 p. ; 25 cm. |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism., American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism., English literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism., American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism., Demeter (Greek deity) in literature., Myth in literature., Sex role in literature., Women in literature., Criticism, interpretation, etc. |
| Subject Person: | Demeter (Greek deity) -- In literature., Persephone (Greek deity) -- In literature. |
| الوصف: | In the first comprehensive survey of the Persephone myth in English and American literature of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Margot Louis explores the transformation of the goddess to provide not only a basis for understanding how the study of ancient history informed the creation of a new spirituality but for comprehending the deep and bitter tensions surrounding gender that interacted with this process. Beginning with an overview of the most influential ancient texts on Persephone and references to Persephone in Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton, and Romantic period writing, Louis shows that the earliest theories of matriarchy and patriarchal marriage emerged in the 1860s alongside the first English poems to explore Persephone's story. As scholars began to focus on the chthonic Mystery cults, and particularly on the Eleusinian Mysteries of Demeter and Persephone, poets and novelists explored the divisions between mother and daughter occasioned by patriarchal marriage. Issues of fertility and ritual resonate in Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles and Willa Cather's My Antonia, while the first advance of a neo-pagan spirituality, as well as early feminist critiques of male mythography and of the Persephone myth, emerge in Modernist poems and fictions from 1908 to 1927. Informed by the latest research and theoretical work on myth, Margot Louis's fascinating study shows the development of Victorian mythography in a new light; offers original takes on Victorian representations of gender and values; exposes how differently male and female Modernists dealt with issues of myth, ritual, and ancient spirituality; and uncovers how deeply the study of ancient spirituality is entwined with controversies about gender. |
| ملاحظة حول المحتويات: | Introduction : gods and mysteries : the revival of paganism and the remaking of mythography through the nineteenth century -- A myth appropriated : Greek Persephone to Romantic Proserpine -- Marriage by capture and the captive wife in Jean Ingelow and Dora Greenwell -- Proserpine and pessimism : goddesses of death, life, and language from Swinburne to Wharton -- The virgin with the sheaf : fertility, ritual, and imagination in Tess of the d'Urbervilles and My Ántonia -- "I am Koré" : the modernist underworld and the rising Persephone. |
| Original Identifier: | ocn234257144 |
| نوع الوثيقة: | Book |
| اللغة: | English |
| ردمك: | 978-0-7546-6455-0 0-7546-6455-4 |
| حقوق: | This record is part of the Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset, which is provided by the Harvard Library under its Bibliographic Dataset Use Terms and includes data made available by, among others, OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. and the Library of Congress. |
| ملاحظات: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [139]-156) and index. |
| رقم الأكسشن: | edshlc.012010013.4 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset |
| ردمك: | 9780754664550 0754664554 |
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