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03790aam a2200337Ii 4500 001 AC25CB486BEF11E5917E58C1DAD10320 003 SILO 005 20151006010103 008 150320s2015 enk b 001 0 eng d 020 $a 9781443874533 020 $a 1443874531 035 $a (OCoLC)905381297 040 $a YDXCP $b eng $e rda $c YDXCP $d CDX $d OCLCO $d NDD $d OCLCO $d MUU $d OCLCF $d OCLCO $d VTU $d OCLCO $d SILO 050 4 $a PN56.5.W56 $b M343 2015 082 04 $a 823.9/209377 $2 23 100 1 $a Madej-Stang, Adriana. 245 10 $a Which face of witch : $b self-representations of women as witches in works of contemporary British women writers / $c by Adriana Madej-Stang. 246 3 $a Self-representations of women as witches in works of contemporary British women writers 264 1 $a Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : $b Cambridge Scholars Publishing, $c 2015. 300 $a xi, 257 pages ; $c 21 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Part 1: Representations of Witches in History and Culture -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: The Meaning of the Term "Witch" -- Chapter 2: Magical Beliefs in Christianity -- Chapter 3: Witch Trials -- Chapter 4: Representations of Witches in the Twentieth Century -- Part 2: Literary Representations of Witches in English Literature Before the Twentieth Century -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: Old English and Medieval Literature -- Chapter 2: Renaissance and Baroque: Witch Craze -- Chapter 3: The Late Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries -- Part 3: The Witch in the Novels of Selected Women Writers of the Late Twentieth and Early Twenty-First Centuries -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: You, the Witch: Entangled in the Past - A Witch Rejected -- Chapter 2: Me, the Witch: Constructed in the Present - a Witch Embraced -- Chapter 3: Me, That Evil Witch: Rediscovering Evil - A Witch Rejecting -- Conclusion. 520 $a "For centuries, the figure of the witch represented the hostile and feared other on the edge of human society, placed in between the world of people and the world of demons. Whether she stood for the untamed powers of nature, dark powers of knowledge or magic, or evil powers derived from the devil, she was always identified with fear as a disturbance, as a danger to the order of society and to the well-being of those who understood themselves as settled within the borders of the patriarchal order and its psychological and sexual corselet. In this role, the witch appeared in numerous literary works, including, among others, writings by Chaucer, Shakespeare and Middleton. However, since the 1840s, the image of the witch has undergone enormous transformations, mainly due to the influence of various matriarchate theories and of feminist ideas. The witch, reclaimed by women for women, became an identification figure and representative of their expectations, fears, hopes and claims. This study investigates examples of witches in publications by contemporary British women writers to see how this figure is perceived, related to, and utilised in their respective texts. Iris Murdoch, Jeanette Winterson, Angela Carter and Fay Weldon, among others, refer consistently to this witch figure, whom they interpret in various creative and surprising ways, adopting innovative approaches to this comparably ancient figure."--Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Witches in literature. 650 0 $a English fiction $x History and criticism. $x History and criticism. 650 7 $a English fiction $x Women authors. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00910866 650 7 $a Witches in literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01176349 655 7 $a Criticism, interpretation, etc. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411635 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20180111045550.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=AC25CB486BEF11E5917E58C1DAD10320Initiate Another SILO Locator Search