The Medusa Reader (Culture Work (Paperback))

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Photograph: Richard Saker/The Observer Jessie Burton: her book ‘is destined to become as much an artefact of our own age as it is an illumination of the ancient past’. On peut leur apprendre, dès qu’elles commencent à parler, en même temps que leur nom, que leur région est noire, parce que tu es Afrique, tu es noire. In this interview with Frédéric Regard, professor of English literature at the Paris-Sorbonne University, that closes a collection of essays on “Le Rire de la Méduse” ( Le Rire de la Méduse: Regards critiques, 2015), Cixous recognizes her own work on the Medusa as queer, as a body through which to shift boundaries and challenge social expectations. Several early classics scholars interpreted the myth of Medusa as a quasi-historical – "based on or reconstructed from an event, custom, style, etc. The inclusion of Medusa in the center implies the protection of the goddess Athena, who wore the Gorgon's likeness on her aegis, as said above.

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Not only does Cixous’s subject matter figure as dangerous material, but she herself has also been considered “dangerous” because of her keen intellect. In classical antiquity, the image of the head of Medusa appeared in the evil-averting device known as the Gorgoneion. BC, in the Metropolitan Museum of Art; Milne noted that "It is one of the earliest illustrations of the story to show the Gorgon not as a hideous monster but as a beautiful woman.She has published widely in the fields of literary and cultural studies, with particular interests in Dante, Renaissance poetry, and the technologies of lyric production.

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Cixous’s imagination of Medusa as a queer body opens up the meanings of “woman” and “feminine” and empowers (female) sexuality to experience the pleasure that awaits within the discovery of alterity within oneself and between all forms of bodies. Garber (born June 11, 1944) is a professor at Harvard University and the author of a wide variety of books, most notably ones about William Shakespeare and aspects of popular culture including sexuality.Perseus, in a variant of the same legend, flies through the air and beheads Pegasus's mother, the Gorgon Medusa; much as Marduk, a Babylonian hero, kills the she-monster Tiamat, Goddess of the Seal. We build and maintain all our own systems, but we don’t charge for access, sell user information, or run ads. A peasant woman goes on a journey to find Medusa and warn her of her fate after hearing some stray gossip. M/N), a human male who thinks it is a good idea to wear a t-shirt written in bold letter 'fuck me', and walk all over heaven. Well, as peaceful as it can be considering the warning your serpentine companions hissed in your ear of a dilapidated boat on the shoreline.

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Jane Harrison has pointed out (Prolegomena to the Study of Greek Religion) that Medusa was once the goddess herself, hiding behind a prophylactic Gorgon mask: a hideous face intended to warn the profane against trespassing on her Mysteries. Her full-page colour images harmonise perfectly with a text that, though not always as subtle as it could be, seizes from the very first sentence, its prose pulsing with irresistible, rhythmic energy. Together, these women and goddesses beckon us into a land of magic and monsters, impossible tasks and serpentine journeys, while simultaneously underscoring the importance of weaving – generally women’s work – in the classical world. Until one day, when your father announced that you were now a part of a divine, marital contract through which you would become one of the many wives of Poseidon, the Tyrant of the Seas. Poseidon's somehow been turned back into an infant, and he's requested you of all people as his temporary babysitter.

Higgins seeks to reassert it here, depicting Helen of Troy sitting at her loom, weaving images of the war for which she was a pretext – “there was always an excuse for war, some symbol or stand-in. Nancy Vickers is President of Bryn Mawr College, where she is also Professor of Italian, French, and Comparative Literature.