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- catalog abstract ""Reclaiming Klytemnestra explores the surprisingly numerous revisions by late twentieth-century women writers of the famous axe-wielding Greek queen who killed her husband in his bath when he returned from the Trojan War." "By slaying her husband, Klytemnestra exposed the competing ethics of motherhood and matrimony at the beginnings of the Western tradition. In this interdisciplinary study, Kathleen L. Komar first examines the classical archetype of Klytemnestra established by writers such as Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides. Turning to the twentieth century, she investigates the work of women who, since the 1960s, have reconceptualized Klytemnestra's actions and motivations in the contemporary contexts of dance, fiction, drama, poetry, and the Internet. These revisions include a Martha Graham ballet; a performance piece by multiple authors; a play by Dacia Maraini; novels by Christa Reinig, Nancy Bogen, Marie Cardinal, and Christa Wolf; a short story by Christine Bruckner; a poem by Laura Kennelly; a mixed-genre piece by Severine Auffret; and two Internet presentations."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12839291.
- catalog created "c2003.".
- catalog date "2003".
- catalog date "c2003.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2003.".
- catalog description ""Reclaiming Klytemnestra explores the surprisingly numerous revisions by late twentieth-century women writers of the famous axe-wielding Greek queen who killed her husband in his bath when he returned from the Trojan War." "By slaying her husband, Klytemnestra exposed the competing ethics of motherhood and matrimony at the beginnings of the Western tradition. In this interdisciplinary study, Kathleen L. Komar first examines the classical archetype of Klytemnestra established by writers such as Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides. Turning to the twentieth century, she investigates the work of women who, since the 1960s, have reconceptualized Klytemnestra's actions and motivations in the contemporary contexts of dance, fiction, drama, poetry, and the Internet. These revisions include a Martha Graham ballet; a performance piece by multiple authors; a play by Dacia Maraini; novels by Christa Reinig, Nancy Bogen, Marie Cardinal, and Christa Wolf; a short story by Christine Bruckner; a poem by Laura Kennelly; a mixed-genre piece by Severine Auffret; and two Internet presentations."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliography (p. [195]-211) and index.".
- catalog description "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.".
- catalog extent "xii, 224 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0252028112 (Cloth : alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "2003".
- catalog issued "c2003.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Urbana ; Chicago : University of Illinois Press,".
- catalog subject "Adultery in literature.".
- catalog subject "Clytemnestra (Greek mythology) in literature.".
- catalog subject "Literature Women authors History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Literature, Modern 20th century History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "PN57.C57 K66 2003".
- catalog subject "Revenge in literature.".
- catalog subject "Women and literature History 20th century.".
- catalog subject "Women murderers in literature.".
- catalog tableOfContents "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.".
- catalog title "Reclaiming Klytemnestra : revenge or reconciliation / Kathleen L. Komar.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".