Tracing Arachne's Web

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''I am particularly impressed with Bloombergs insights about the ways in which women writers urge to harness the power of womens myths has to some extent been aroused by historical forces. ... She explains that womens desire to reinvent their identities requires that women writers take over the narrative tools (such as mythic allusions) provided them by male writers and use those tools to build their own textual house.

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Full title :Tracing Arachne's Web.

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Publication Date:2001.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):University Press of Florida
Place of Publication:Gainesville
Language:eng
Publication Date:2001.

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Description:1 online resource (137 pages)

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780813031064, 0813031060
oclc:ocn476046155
LC Classification:PS374.F45 B58 2001eb
Dewey Decimal:813.0099287

Table of Contents; 1. Tracing Arachne's Web: Mythic Methods and Femin(ine)ist Fictions 1; 2. Occulted Words and Mythic Worlds 16; 3. Unraveling Demeter's Garden: Demeter and Persephone in the Works of Sarah Orne Jewett and Emma D. Kelley-Hawkins 26; 4. Aphrodite 's Fall: Aphrodite, Undine, and Andromeda in the Works of Onoto Watanna, Alice Dunbar-Nelson, and Edith Wharton 53; 5. Hekate's Queendom of the Damned: Djuna Barnes's Nightwood 87; One Thread of Arachne's Web 106; Notes 109; Bibliography 115; Index 123.

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American fiction -- Women authors Criticism, interpretation, etc Feminism and literature Feminism and literature -- History. -- … Feminist fiction, American Feminist fiction, American -- History a… Femmes -- Mythologie Femmes et littérature -- Histoire. -- É… History LITERARY CRITICISM -- American Myth in literature Mythe -- Dans la littérature Mythologie ancienne dans la littérature Mythology, Classical, in literature United States Women -- Mythology Women and literature Women and literature -- History. -- Uni…