Women as mythmakers : poetry and visual art by twentieth-century women / Estella Lauter.

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Main Author: Lauter, Estella, 1940-
Corporate Author: NetLibrary, Inc
Language:English
Published: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [1984], ©1984.
Subjects:
1900 - 1999
Feminism and the arts.
Women artists.
Women poets.
Art and mythology.
Arts, Modern > 20th century.
Electronic books.
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Physical Description:xvii, 267 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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Contents:
  • Introduction: Steps toward a feminist archetypal theory of mythmaking
  • pt. 1. Individual visions: ch. 1. Anne Sexton's radical discontent
  • ch. 2. Käthe Kollwitz: the power of the mother (with Dominique Rozenberg)
  • ch. 3. Margaret Atwood: remythologizing Circe
  • ch. 4. Remedios Varo: the creative woman and the female quest
  • ch. 5. Diane Wakoski: disentangling the woman from the moon
  • ch. 6. Léonor Fini: re-envisioning La belle dame sans merci
  • pt. 2. Collective visions: ch. 7. Mythic patterns in contemporary visual art by women
  • ch. 8. "Woman and nature" revisited in poetry by women
  • Conclusion: The light is in us.