Margot. K. Louis. Persephone rises, 1860-1927. Mythography, Gender, and the Creation of a New Spirituality
M. K. Louis’s book-length study of the myth of Persephone in Victorian and early Modernist literature is devoted to writers’ reinterpretations of this complex Greek figure using contemporary historicist “mythic criticism’” “seek[ing] to see how myth operates, within its cultural context” [...] how...
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| Formaat: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
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Cahiers victoriens et édouardiens
2017
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| Online toegang: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Samenvatting: | M. K. Louis’s book-length study of the myth of Persephone in Victorian and early Modernist literature is devoted to writers’ reinterpretations of this complex Greek figure using contemporary historicist “mythic criticism’” “seek[ing] to see how myth operates, within its cultural context” [...] how a mythical allusion or pattern of mythical echoes within a literary text operates within that text’s cultural context’ (xi).Why did the multi-faceted figure of Persephone return in English-speaking... |
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