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Medusa
In the Mirror of Time
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Ideal for readers interested in mythology, religion, feminism, and cultural studies.
Medusa explores how and why the mythical figure of the gorgon has become one of the most important and enduring ideas in human history.
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Medusa literally petrifies: her face turned the ancients to stone. For Perseus and his patriarchal culture, she was a dangerous female monster that had to be destroyed; for Dante, she was the erotic power that could destroy men. Freud saw in her hair a nest of terrifying penises signalling castration.
Yet in our time, Medusa's reputation has improved: feminists see her as a noble victim of patriarchy, and the designer Versace celebrates the lure of her mysterious face in a logo that stares at us from his ads for men's underwear, haute couture, and exotic dinnerware. In our modern culture, she is once again a power player demanding to be recognised; Medusa, it seems, still has the power to transfix us.
David Leeming's Medusa explores how and why the mythical figure of the gorgon has become one of the most important and enduring ideas in human history.
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New York Journal of Books praises the book: "David Leeming peels layers from the myth and views his subject from a number of perspectives. The result is a complexity that affords us a far richer foundation upon which we can build our understanding of both the myth and ourselves."
Book Details
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ISBN: 9781780230955
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Format: Hardback
Date Published: 01 March 2013
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Reaktion Books
Illustration: 24 illustrations
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Width: 216.0mm
Height: 138.0mm
Weight: 250g
Pages: 128
About the Author
David Leeming is Emeritus Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Connecticut. He is the co-author of Gods, Heroes, and Kings: The Battle for Mythic Britain (2001) and author of numerous books on mythology including Myth: A Biography of Belief (2002), The Oxford Companion to World Mythology (2005) and Medusa: In the Mirror of Time (Reaktion, 2013). He lives in Stonington, Connecticut.
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