The Medusa Reader (Culture Work (Paperback))

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These explorations take the form of poems, selections from critical essays, psychoanalysis, pictorial images, theatre productions, and political appropriations.

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Caught between the gods wrath and Brunhilde's risky schemes, you find yourself going from bed to bed, from god to god in an insane and unhinged backup plan. She first fell under the spell of the myths when an older brother bought her a copy of Kenneth McLeish’s Children of the Gods. Perseus, in a variant of the same legend, flies through the air and beheads Pegasus's mother, the Gorgon Medusa; much as Marduk, a Babylonian hero, kills the she-monster Tiamat, Goddess of the Seal.Jane Harrison has pointed out (Prolegomena to the Study of Greek Religion) that Medusa was once the goddess herself, hiding behind a prophylactic Gorgon mask: a hideous face intended to warn the profane against trespassing on her Mysteries. One of the most notable body parts of the Medusa is her snaky hair, which has been interpreted both as a representation of the phallus and of pubic hair, making Medusa’s head a castrating, metaphoric vulva. Ianthe refuses to be afraid of the only woman to ever show her kindness, despite the gorgon's reputation. The name "Medusa" itself is often used in ways not directly connected to the mythological figure but to suggest the gorgon's abilities or to connote malevolence; despite her origins as a beauty, the name in common usage "came to mean monster. Nancy Vickers is President of Bryn Mawr College, where she is also Professor of Italian, French, and Comparative Literature.

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Vickers, is a comprehensive anthology of excerpted references to Medusa in literature and art, beginning with Homer in Books 5 and 11 of The Iliad and concluding with Gianni Versace’s selection of her image as the symbol for the House of Versace.We may now think of the legend of her slayer, Perseus, by whom her head was removed and presented to Athene.

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com Magazine promotes a cross-disciplinary appoarch to sustainability, innovation, and the new mythology and green alchemy. She argues that men's retelling of the narrative turned Medusa into a monster because they feared female desire.A glance at some fairly recent film releases, (the dangerous female is a particularly scopic fetish) in France and the United States seem to confirm the fabrication of female bodies as a locus of danger and desire ( Elle, 2016; Teeth, 2007; La Forêt de Quinconces, 2016). In Greek mythology, Medusa ( / m ɪ ˈ dj uː z ə, - s ə/; Ancient Greek: Μέδουσα, romanized: Médousa, lit. F/n, Ln-Kamo has lived her life second best to every one after her mother was murdered by an unregistered curse.