The Medusa Reader (Culture Work (Paperback))

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Méduse en Sorbonne.” Le Rire de la Méduse: Regards Critiques: ed. Frédéric Regard and Martine Reid. Paris: Honoré Champion, 2015. Medusa sculpture by Luciano Garbati, which portrays her clutching the severed head of Perseus (2008) [37] A Kinktober book with the twist of our Reader/MC being a monster, a mythological creature or a yokai. Scenarios of your favorite male characters of Record of Ragnarok. Language: English Words: 34,967 Chapters: 6/? Comments: 10 Kudos: 233 Bookmarks: 33 Hits: 8,656

New Retelling by Charlotte Higgins; Medusa Greek Myths: A New Retelling by Charlotte Higgins; Medusa

Wilk, Stephen (2000). Medusa: Solving the Mystery of the Gorgon. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780195124316. In most versions of the story, she was beheaded by the hero Perseus, who was sent to fetch her head by King Polydectes of Seriphus because Polydectes wanted to marry Perseus's mother. The gods were well aware of this, and Perseus received help. He received a mirrored shield from Athena, sandals with gold wings from Hermes, a sword from Hephaestus and Hades's helm of invisibility. Since Medusa was the only one of the three Gorgons who was mortal, Perseus was able to slay her; he did so while looking at the reflection from the mirrored shield he received from Athena. During that time, Medusa was pregnant by Poseidon. When Perseus beheaded her, Pegasus, a winged horse, and Chrysaor, a giant wielding a golden sword, sprang from her body. [12] Several early classics scholars interpreted the myth of Medusa as a quasi-historical – "based on or reconstructed from an event, custom, style, etc., in the past", [16] or "sublimated" memory of an actual invasion. [17] [13] In this interview with Frédéric Regard, professor of English literature at the Paris-Sorbonne University, that closes a collection of essays on “Le Rire de la Méduse” ( Le Rire de la Méduse: Regards critiques, 2015), Cixous recognizes her own work on the Medusa as queer, as a body through which to shift boundaries and challenge social expectations. Cixous’s imagination of Medusa as a queer body opens up the meanings of “woman” and “feminine” and empowers (female) sexuality to experience the pleasure that awaits within the discovery of alterity within oneself and between all forms of bodies.Originally posted on mxomo.tumblr.com Language: English Words: 16,049 Chapters: 10/10 Comments: 15 Kudos: 492 Bookmarks: 53 Hits: 13,682 ERICH NEUMANN from The Origins and History of Consciousness 1949 translated by R F C Hull A Jungian View of the Terrible Mother According to Hesiod and Aeschylus, she lived and died on Sarpedon, somewhere near Cisthene. The 2nd-century BC novelist Dionysios Skytobrachion puts her somewhere in Libya, where Herodotus had said the Berbers originated her myth as part of their religion. In Greek mythology, Medusa ( / m ɪ ˈ dj uː z ə, - s ə/; Ancient Greek: Μέδουσα, romanized: Médousa, lit.'guardian, protectress'), [1] also called Gorgo, was one of the three Gorgons. Medusa is generally described as a human female with living venomous snakes in place of hair; those who gazed into her eyes [ citation needed] would turn to stone. Most sources describe her as the daughter of Phorcys and Ceto, [2] although the author Hyginus makes her the daughter of Gorgon and Ceto. [3] Archetypal literary criticism continues to find psychoanalysis useful. Beth Seelig chooses to interpret Medusa's punishment as resulting from rape rather than the common interpretation of having willingly consented in Athena's temple, as an outcome of the goddess' unresolved conflicts with her own father Zeus. [20] Feminism

The Medusa Reader - 1st Edition - Marjorie Garber - Nancy J

Medusa, cursed by the goddess Athena, is stripped away from her beauty-- now, she's a monster, with her ugly features and scaly snakes for hair. Medusa thinks that she can never love again, what with her stony gaze and repulsiveness. But a certain blind woman has caught Medusa's eye and maybe-- just maybe-- Medusa will be able to love once more. HESIOD from The Shield of Herakles and Theogony c 700 BCE translated by Richmond Lattimore Medusa and Perseus The "Rondanini Medusa", a Roman copy of the Gorgoneion on the aegis of Athena; later used as a model for the Gorgon's head in Antonio Canova's marble Perseus with the Head of Medusa (1798–1801)WALTER BENJAMIN from Paris Capital of the Nineteenth Century 1939 translated by Howard Eiland and Kevin McLaughlin Medusa and Mod... Dangerous, dark, obscure, unknown. Hélène Cixous did not mince words when she published “Le Rire de la Méduse” (“The Laugh of the Medusa) in 1975, where she claimed that these were the descriptors inscribed on the female body and psyche. Not only was Cixous revolutionary in her efforts to talk about a “dangerous” subject matter, the female body, women’s writing, and the need for love of the “Other,” but her call for such discussion was situated in a politically-tense time and a daring venue. “Le Rire de la Méduse” appeared as part of the aftermath of the events of May 1968, when factory workers and students spurred monumental revolts in France to fight against capitalism and oppressive institutions. These political events, which in part demanded the recognition of sexual inequality and the freedom of sexual expression, helped to spur the differentialist feminism movement in 1970s. Within this essay, Cixous exposes the patriarchal idea of women as mysterious, dangerous, and inferior, and explodes the idea of sexual difference by proposing a new meaning for the “feminine.” Ironically, Cixous’s “Le Rire de la Méduse” was published in an edition of a small French review ( L’Arc) focusing on the work of Simone de Beauvoir, who held a universalist view quite different from Cixous’s differentialist text. To everyone’s surprise, nestled within this edition of L’Arc was a manifesto for a new feminism that focused on the acceptance of difference (of others and of self) rather than reaching equality through sameness. Two lovers recount the story of how they met. Language: English Words: 1,461 Chapters: 1/1 Comments: 2 Kudos: 84 Bookmarks: 7 Hits: 600