Re-visiting female evil : : power, purity, and desire / / edited by Melissa Dearey, Roger Davis, Susana Nicolas.
Reflecting current trends in scholarly analysis of evil and the feminine, the chapters contained in Re-visiting Female Evil focus upon various ‘re-interpretations’ of evil femininities as a cultural signifier of agency, transgression and crisis, re-interpreting them through rewriting of ‘other’ stor...
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| Superior document: | At the Interface / Probing the Boundaries, Volume 90 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden, The Netherlands ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] : : Brill Rodopi,, 2017. ©2017 |
| Year of Publication: | 2017 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | At the interface/probing the boundaries ;
Volume 90. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (206 pages). |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary Material / Melissa Dearey , Roger Davis and Susana Nicolás
- Introduction / Melissa Dearey , Roger Davis and Susana Nicolás
- Maud Allan, the Cult of the Clitoris and the Future of Britain / Anthony Patterson
- Pola Negri’s Star Persona in America of the 1920s / Agata Frymus
- Seduction and Sex: The Changing Allure of the Femme Fatale in Fact and Fiction / Kirsten Smith
- Monstrous Beauty, Monstrous Strength: The Case of the Mermaid / David Farnell and Rute Noiva
- Cutting Narrative Ties: Sacrifice and Transformation in Medea / Colin Dignam
- ‘She Sleeps inside like a Lion and a Lamb and a Child’: Revisiting Shakespeare’s Female Evil through Edward Bond’s Lear / Susana Nicolás
- The Season of the Witch: Gender Trouble in American Horror Story-Coven / Elisabete Lopes
- Memory, Agency, Subjectivity: Lisbeth Salander and the Flashes Back to the Past in the Millennium Films / Tiina Mäntymäki
- Laura Palmer: Intertextual Temptress / Anne Bettina Pedersen.