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E-mail Message: I thought you might be interested in this item at http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/24010567 Title: The heroine in western literature : the archetype and her reemergence in modern prose Author: Meredith A Powers Publisher: Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., ©1991. ISBN/ISSN: 0899506151 9780899506159 OCLC:24010567

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The heroine in western literature : the archetype and her reemergence in modern prose

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The heroine in western literature : the archetype and her reemergence in modern prose

Author:	Meredith A Powers
Publisher:	Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., ©1991.
Edition/Format:	Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Additional Physical Format:	Online version: Powers, Meredith A. Heroine in western literature. Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., c1991 (OCoLC)555428380
Document Type:	Book
All Authors / Contributors:	Meredith A Powers Find more information about:
ISBN:	0899506151 9780899506159
OCLC Number:	24010567
Description:	vi, 234 p. ; 24 cm.
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.
Responsibility:	by Meredith A. Powers.

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