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Reclaiming Klytemnestra : revenge or reconciliation

Title
Reclaiming Klytemnestra : revenge or reconciliation / Kathleen L. Komar.
Author
Komar, Kathleen L.
Publication
Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2003.

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Book/TextUse in library JFE 03-8729Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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Description
xii, 224 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
Subject
  • Clytemnestra, Queen of Mycenae, in literature
  • Literature, Modern > 20th century > History and criticism
  • Literature > Women authors > History and criticism
  • Women murderers in literature
  • Adultery in literature
  • Revenge in literature
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [195]-211) and index.
Contents
Introduction: Foundations of western culture, re-collecting Klytemnestra -- The classical Klytemnestra -- Klytemnestra takes center stage : Klytemnestra in the pre- and early 1980s -- Klytemnestra in the mid- to late 1980s -- The fate of Klytemnestra in the 1990s : upstaged by her daughters -- Conclusion: The issues for women revisionists; trauma, violence, and a new gender dialogic for Klytemnestra at the end of the millennium -- Appendix: genealogies of the house of Atreus and Klytemnestra.
Call Number
JFE 03-8729
ISBN
0252028112 (Cloth : alk. paper)
LCCN
2002011211
OCLC
50243454
Author
Komar, Kathleen L.
Title
Reclaiming Klytemnestra : revenge or reconciliation / Kathleen L. Komar.
Imprint
Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2003.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [195]-211) and index.
Research Call Number
JFE 03-8729
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