Reclaiming Klytemnestra revenge or reconciliation

• Main Author: Komar, Kathleen L.
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Urbana Chicago University of Illinois Press c2003
• Subjects: Λογοτεχνία > Ιστορία και κριτική > 20ός αιώνας; Κλυταιμνήστρα (Μυθολογία) στη λογοτεχνία

Table of 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