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Medea's Chorus - Myth and Women's Poetry Since 1950 (Hardcover, New edition)
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Medea's Chorus - Myth and Women's Poetry Since 1950 (Hardcover, New edition)
Series: Studies in Modern Poetry, 19
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Women's mythic revision is a tradition at the heart of
twentieth-century literature. Medea's Chorus explores post-WWII
women's poetry that takes Greek mythology as its central topos. The
book investigates five of the most influential poets writing in the
twentieth century (H.D., Sylvia Plath, Adrienne Rich, Margaret
Atwood, Eavan Boland) who challenge both the ancient literary
representations of women and the high modernist appropriations of
the classics. In their poetry and prose, the women engage with
cultural discourses about literary authority, gender, oppression,
violence, and age. Yet even while the poets rework certain aspects
of the Greek myths that they find troubling, they see the inherent
power in the stories and use that power for personal and social
revelation. Because myths exist in multiple versions, ancient
writers did not create from scratch; their artistic contribution
lay in how they changed the stories. Modern female poets are
engaging in a several millennia-old tradition of mythic revision, a
tradition that has ruthlessly posited that there is no place for
women in the creation and transmission of mythological poetry.
Medea's Chorus tracks mythic revision from the 1950s through the
second-wave feminist movement and into turn-of-the-century feminism
to highlight individual achievements and to show the collective
effect of the poets' highly varied works on post-WWII literature
and feminist thought and practice. This engaging and beautifully
written book is a must-read for any student, teacher, or scholar of
the Classical Tradition, revisionist mythmaking, and
twentieth-century poetry.
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