The heroine in western literature : the archetype and her reemergence in modern prose /
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Jefferson, N.C. :
McFarland & Co.,
[1991]
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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.