The Reclamation of a Queen: Guinevere in Modern FantasyBloomsbury Academic, 28 feb 1991 - 184 pagina's The Reclamation of a Queen seeks new approaches to Guinevere's shadowed, negative image in the Arthurian legends. There the Queen was generally perceived as either a seemingly passive object of men's desires or as a destructive temptress. Barbara Ann Gordon-Wise asserts that Guinevere's treatment in every historical period has been influenced by basic sociological and ideological pressures and has been conditioned by a traditionally masculine interpretation of women. Recent revisionist treatments by modern fantasy writers present a transfigured Guinevere. Gordon-Wise, who approaches the representations of Guinevere from a medieval perspective and from a Jungian-feminist point of view, demonstrates how the figure of Guinevere attracted to itself the negative aspects of the archetypes of the Mother, Maiden, Wise Woman, and Warrior. She argues that the persistence of this image perpetuated patriarchal ideology which viewed women as subordinate. This study of the development of Guinevere over almost a thousand years of literature suggests far-ranging implications concerning Western attitudes toward women and the current revision of Guinevere in modern fantasy novels may now help to shape a more positive image of the feminine. |
Inhoudsopgave
JUNG AND THE FEMININE | 31 |
THE SEDUCTRESS | 57 |
THE WITCH | 73 |
Copyright | |
3 andere gedeelten niet getoond
Overige edities - Alles bekijken
The Reclamation of a Queen: Guinevere in Modern Fantasy Barbara A. Gordon Wise Fragmentweergave - 1991 |
The Reclamation of a Queen: Guinevere in Modern Fantasy Barbara A. Gordon Wise Fragmentweergave - 1991 |
The Reclamation of a Queen: Guinevere in Modern Fantasy Barbara A. Gordon Wise Fragmentweergave - 1991 |
Veelvoorkomende woorden en zinsdelen
Verwijzingen naar dit boek
Rewriting the Women of Camelot: Arthurian Popular Fiction and Feminism Ann F. Howey Fragmentweergave - 2001 |