The heroine in western literature : the archetype and her reemergence in modern prose / by Meredith A. Powers.

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Main Author: Powers, Meredith A.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., c1991.
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300 |a vi, 234 p. ;  |c 24 cm. 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references (p. 223-228) and index. 
505 0 |a Motherhood in prehistory: attachment patterns and the origin of religion -- The nature of the goddess: ominous, transformative, nurturing; three persons in one goddess -- Fiction as process and the deprecation of the goddess: Atalanta, Cassandra and Ariadne -- Self-deprecation and ostracism in Homer -- The reconstructed divinity: Danae, Athena and Pandora -- The feminine principle in classical Athens; cultural imprimatur of second stratum archetypes -- Euripides -- Merging traditions of goddess deprecation: the heroism of Eve -- Rediscovering the goddess -- The Chthonic aspect as a source of strength in twentieth-century American heroines -- Chthonic renewal: irrational modes in Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant, The Good Mother and The Color Purple -- The Chthonic as metaphor. 
650 0 |a Women in literature. 
650 0 |a Heroines in literature. 
650 0 |a Goddesses in literature. 
650 0 |a Archetype (Psychology) in literature. 
650 0 |a Myth in literature. 
650 0 |a Feminism and literature. 
650 0 |a Literature  |x History and criticism. 
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