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

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Powers, Meredith A.
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., c1991.
Subjects:	Women in literature. Heroines in literature. Goddesses in literature. Archetype (Psychology) in literature. Myth in literature. Feminism and literature. Literature > History and criticism.

Table of Contents:

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.

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