...Heidi Morse Abstract Since the 1970s, the topic of feminist adaptations of Greco-Roman mythology has been dominated by narratives of revision and retelling from the perspective of female characters, including—via Hélène Cixous—Medusa as a creative muse for women’s writing. Pairing the modernist US...

... feminist revision of the historical novel. Unlike the new Woolf who begins her voyage out of the realistic word towards a more symbolic writing, towards traces and silence, rethinking human life in poetic terms, Banti still needs the fiction of realism, which she reshapes to give voice to female char...

...Michael Moon Philosophy, Revision, Critique: Rereading Practices in Heidegger, Nietzsche, and Emerson. By David Wittenberg. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2001. 266 p. University of Oregon 2002 COMPARATIVE LITERATURE/268 BOOK...

..., tensions, psychological complexities, and contingencies that tend to characterize them without, however, renouncing the concepts of ethics, agency, and the negotiation of val- ues. Her feminist ethics of dissensus, which represents an alternative to the ethics of con- sensus, originates “in the gap...

... that tend to characterize them without, however, renouncing the concepts of ethics, agency, and the negotiation of val- ues. Her feminist ethics of dissensus, which represents an alternative to the ethics of con- sensus, originates “in the gap between heteromorphism and heteronomy, immanence...

... purpose. On the other hand, as Hanssen argues, although we now seem to be in a period of post-theory, approaches asso- ciated with the Frankfurt School and poststructuralism remain widely influential in such fields as literary and political theory, postcolonial, queer, psychoanalytic, and feminist...

...Kathryn Wichelns Marguerite Duras's 1962 theatrical adaptation of Henry James's short story offers a feminist alternative to Eve Sedgwick's famous interpretation. The precise elements that for Duras reveal James's interest in “feminine” forms of expression also are significant for queer theoretical...

... interpretations of “The Nose” that dominated both Formalist and psychoanalytic literary criticism in early-twentieth-century Russia. Copying and revising Freudian interpretations of “The Nose,” wherein the nose symbolizes the phallus, Ugrešić substitutes Nada Matić—the female plastic surgeon who finds Mato...

... Klytemnestras, whose murders are in one case provoked by the husband’s desertion and adultery and in the other by the wife’s greed for her returning soldier husband’s bank account. There is no feminist complexity to the Klytemnestras in Kennelly’s revision, nor is there the heroic grandeur of the ancient...

... Klytemnestras, whose murders are in one case provoked by the husband’s desertion and adultery and in the other by the wife’s greed for her returning soldier husband’s bank account. There is no feminist complexity to the Klytemnestras in Kennelly’s revision, nor is there the heroic grandeur of the ancient...

... Klytemnestras, whose murders are in one case provoked by the husband’s desertion and adultery and in the other by the wife’s greed for her returning soldier husband’s bank account. There is no feminist complexity to the Klytemnestras in Kennelly’s revision, nor is there the heroic grandeur of the ancient...

... Klytemnestras, whose murders are in one case provoked by the husband’s desertion and adultery and in the other by the wife’s greed for her returning soldier husband’s bank account. There is no feminist complexity to the Klytemnestras in Kennelly’s revision, nor is there the heroic grandeur of the ancient...

... Klytemnestras, whose murders are in one case provoked by the husband’s desertion and adultery and in the other by the wife’s greed for her returning soldier husband’s bank account. There is no feminist complexity to the Klytemnestras in Kennelly’s revision, nor is there the heroic grandeur of the ancient...

... Klytemnestras, whose murders are in one case provoked by the husband’s desertion and adultery and in the other by the wife’s greed for her returning soldier husband’s bank account. There is no feminist complexity to the Klytemnestras in Kennelly’s revision, nor is there the heroic grandeur of the ancient...

... Klytemnestras, whose murders are in one case provoked by the husband’s desertion and adultery and in the other by the wife’s greed for her returning soldier husband’s bank account. There is no feminist complexity to the Klytemnestras in Kennelly’s revision, nor is there the heroic grandeur of the ancient...

... Klytemnestras, whose murders are in one case provoked by the husband’s desertion and adultery and in the other by the wife’s greed for her returning soldier husband’s bank account. There is no feminist complexity to the Klytemnestras in Kennelly’s revision, nor is there the heroic grandeur of the ancient...

... Klytemnestras, whose murders are in one case provoked by the husband’s desertion and adultery and in the other by the wife’s greed for her returning soldier husband’s bank account. There is no feminist complexity to the Klytemnestras in Kennelly’s revision, nor is there the heroic grandeur of the ancient...

..., Lesley. “Reincarnations of Griselda: Contexts for the Clerk's Tale?” Feminist Readings in Middle English Literature: The Wife of Bath and All Her Sect. Ed. Ruth Evans and Lesley Johnson. London: Routledge, 1994 . 195 -220. Kirkham, Victoria. “The Last Tale in the Decameron.” Mediaevalia 12...

... is a significant revision of traditional representations of Mulan and resonates with the familiar feminist model of relating authorship to authority. Previous revi- sions of the Mulan narrative in the Chinese tradition are always dominated by a COMPARATIVE LITERATURE/238 third-person narrator speaking from...

.... Chief Nanga in Chinua Achebe’s A Man of the People (1966) and Ralph Singh in V. S. Naipaul’s The Mimic Men (1967) might fail to assert their authority over their respective communities in postcolonial West Africa and the Caribbean, but it is not for lack of trying. Elam’s revisioning...