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Author:

Knapp, Bettina Liebowitz, 1926-

Title:

Women, myth, and the feminine principle / Bettina L. Knapp.

Publisher:

State University of New York Press,

Copyright Date:

c1998

Description:

xviii, 277 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Women--Mythology.
Women and religion.
Women in literature.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-260) and index.

Contents:

The divine feminine in Tibet's Gesar of Ling -- Kalidasa's Sanskrit drama, Sakuntala : from passivity to adamantine essence -- The Nibelungenlied : Kriemhild and Brunhild : the obsessive/compulsive stress syndrome -- The Quiché Mayan Popol Vuh : mother participates in the creation -- Racine's Phaedra : "The horror of remorse" -- Yeat's Deirdre : an Irish/Celtic feminist and heroine -- I.B. Singer's "Yentl the Yeshival boy" : gender deconstruction and the fashioning of the modern woman.

ISBN:

9780791435281 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0791435288 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780791435274 (hardcover : alk. paper)
079143527X (hardcover : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)37254356

LCCN:

97026324

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

V3AX572 -- Kaplan University Library - Cedar Rapids (Cedar Rapids)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)