Reclaiming Klytemnestra explores the surprisingly numerous revisions by late twentieth-century women writers of the famous axe-wielding Greek queen who killed her husband in his bath when he returned from the Trojan War. By slaying her husband, Klytemnestra exposed the competing ethics of motherhood and matrimony at the beginnings of the Western tradition. In this interdisciplinary study, Kathleen L. Komar first examines the classical archetype of Klytemnestra established by writers such as Aeschylus, Sophocles, and ...
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Reclaiming Klytemnestra explores the surprisingly numerous revisions by late twentieth-century women writers of the famous axe-wielding Greek queen who killed her husband in his bath when he returned from the Trojan War. By slaying her husband, Klytemnestra exposed the competing ethics of motherhood and matrimony at the beginnings of the Western tradition. In this interdisciplinary study, Kathleen L. Komar first examines the classical archetype of Klytemnestra established by writers such as Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides. Turning to the twentieth century, she investigates the work of modern writers who, since the 1960s, have reconceptualized Klytemnestra's actions and motivations in the contemporary contexts of dance, fiction, drama, poetry, and the Internet. These revisions include a Martha Graham ballet; a performance piece by multiple authors; a play by Dacia Maraini; novels by Christa Reinig, Nancy Bogen, Christa Wolf, and Marie Cardinal; a short story by Christine Br???ckner; a poem by Laura Kennelly; a mixed-genre piece by S???verine Auffret; and two Internet presentations. Eloquent, provocative, and richly detailed, Reclaiming Klytemnestra asks us to reassess the roles women were assigned at the beginnings of Western culture and to reenvision how those roles might be changed in the new millennium.
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Good Condition. Dust jacket is fully intact. Pages are free from notes or highlighting. A presentable used copy without significant defects. Publisher's note: "Reclaiming Klytemnestra explores the surprisingly numerous revisions by late twentieth-century women writers of the famous axe-wielding Greek queen who killed her husband in his bath when he returned from the Trojan War." "By slaying her husband, Klytemnestra exposed the competing ethics of motherhood and matrimony at the beginnings of the Western tradition. In this interdisciplinary study, Kathleen L. Komar first examines the classical archetype of Klytemnestra established by writers such as Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides. Turning to the twentieth century, she investigates the work of women who, since the 1960s, have reconceptualized Klytemnestra's actions and motivations in the contemporary contexts of dance, fiction, drama, poetry, and the Internet. These revisions include a Martha Graham ballet; a performance piece by multiple authors; a play by Dacia Maraini; novels by Christa Reinig, Nancy Bogen, Marie Cardinal, and Christa Wolf; a short story by Christine Bruckner; a poem by Laura Kennelly; a mixed-genre piece by Severine Auffret; and two Internet presentations."--Jacket xii, 224 pp. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Literature & Literary; Literature--Women authors; Literature, Modern; Revenge in literature; Women murderers in literature; Adultery in literature; Clytemnestra, Queen of Mycenae; ISBN: 0252028112. ISBN/EAN: 9780252028113. Add. Inventory No: 231102NAZHAD3-4017.
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VG+ in NF jacket. Octavo. Red cloth covered boards and spine with shiny gilt lettering on the spine. Book has a nearly unnoticable bump at the head of the spine and light bumping at the tail, both with a trace of accompanying rubbing. Just the faintest rub to the extreme tip of each of the outside corners. White endpapers. Binding is straight and tight. Previous owner's underlining and margin notes on the first 49 of the book's 224 pages. Red publisher's remainder mark on the lower edge of the textblock. Illustrated with artwork here and there.
