Goddesses in Myth and Cultural Memory - Image 1

£85.09

Bloomsbury Academic Goddesses in Myth and Cultural Memory

Name: Goddesses in Myth and Cultural Memory
Brand: Bloomsbury Academic
Price: 80.98 GBP
Availability: InStock

Ancient History & Civilisation

Price History & Forecast

Last 46 days • 46 data points (No recent data available)

Historical

Generating forecast...

Price Distribution

Price distribution over 46 days • 2 price levels

Days at Price

Current Price

Price Analysis

Most common price: £85 (44 days, 95.7%)

Price range: £81 - £85

Price levels: 2 different prices over 46 days

Description

How have the goddesses of ancient myth survived, prevalent even now as literary and cultural icons? How do allegory, symbolic interpretation, and political context transform the goddess from her regional and individual identity into a goddess of philosophy and literature? Emilie Kutash explores these questions, beginning from the premise that cultural memory, a collective cultural and social phenomenon, can last thousands of years. Kutash demonstrates a continuing practice of interpreting and allegorizing ancient myths, tracing these goddesses of archaic origin through history. Chapters follow the goddesses from their ancient near eastern prototypes, to their place in the epic poetry, drama and hymns of classical Greece, to their appearance in Platonic and Neoplatonic philosophy, Medieval allegory, and their association with Christendom. Finally, Kutash considers how goddesses were made into Jungian archetypes, and how some contemporary feminists made them a counterfoil to male divinity, thereby addressing the continued role of goddesses in perpetuating gender binaries.

Product Specifications

Brand: Bloomsbury Academic
Format: Hardcover
ASIN: 0567697398
Category: Books > Subjects > History > Ancient History & Civilisation
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 20 May 2021
Listed Since: 10 December 2020

Barcode

No barcode data available

Bloomsbury Academic Goddesses in Myth and Cultural Memory

Price History & Forecast

Price Distribution

Price Analysis

Description

Product Specifications

Barcode

Similar Products You Might Like

The Goddess Myth in Contemporary Literature and Popular Culture: A Feminist Critique

Female Mobility and Gendered Space in Ancient Greek Myth

Gender and Immortality: Heroines in Ancient Greek Myth and Cult (Princeton Legacy Library): 345

Fierce Feminine Divinities of Eurasia and Latin America: Baba Yaga, Kālī, Pombagira, and Santa Muerte

Ancient Symbols Live in Today's Women - Images of the Dark Goddess in Psychology

Myth and Violence in the Contemporary Female Text: New Cassandras

Feminist Mythology, A

Gender and Immortality – Heroines in Ancient Greek Myth and Cult: 345 (Princeton Legacy Library)

Goddesses of Kathmandu Valley: Grace, Rage, Knowledge (Nepal and Himalayan Studies)

Euhemerism and Its Uses: The Mortal Gods (Routledge Studies in Renaissance and Early Modern Worlds of Knowledge)

Myth and Fairy Tale in Contemporary Women's Fiction

Cultural Reflections of Medusa: The Shadow in the Glass (Interdisciplinary Research in Gender)

Artemis (Gods and Heroes of the Ancient World)

Women in the Hindu Tradition: Rules, Roles and Exceptions (Routledge Hindu Studies Series)

Motherless Daughters and Female Monsters: Androcentric Fantasy in Ancient Greek Myth and Freudian Theory

The Making of Goddess Durga in Bengal: Art, Heritage and the Public

Medea’s Long Shadow in Postcolonial Contexts (Classics and the Postcolonial)

Demeter (Gods and Heroes of the Ancient World)

Women and Dionysus: Appearances and Exile in History, Culture, and Myth (Routledge Focus on Analytical Psychology)

Gender, Creation Myths and their Reception in Western Civilization: Prometheus, Pandora, Adam and Eve (Bloomsbury Studies in Classical Reception)

Barthes' Mythologies Today: Readings of Contemporary Culture (Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies)

Barthes' Mythologies Today: Readings of Contemporary Culture (Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies)

Women and the Ideology of Political Exclusion: From Classical Antiquity to the Modern Era (Routledge Companions)

Metamorphoses of Myth in Fiction since 1960, The