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Transforming Psyche.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, 1999Copyright date: ©1999Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (255 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780773567801
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Transforming PsycheDDC classification:
  • 305.4/2
LOC classification:
  • HQ1206 .H82 1999
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Contexts and Circumstances -- 2 Narcissus and Echo -- 3 Introducing Psyche, Attending Aphrodite -- 4 The Green World -- 5 Learning Transformation -- 6 Eros, Psyche, and N(arr)ativity -- 7 Voluptas beyond the Ending -- 8 Lifeprints -- 9 Retelling Psyche -- Appendix: Apuleius's Cupid and Psyche -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
Summary: In an accessible style and readable prose, Barbara Weir Huber explores the myth of Psyche, interweaving research from diverse disciplines such as current feminist and educational theories, mythology, literature, psychology, and cultural anthropology. She offers an original, critical reinterpretation of the myth, highlighting the way it overtly portrays female experience in a patriarchal context while covertly affirming all aspects of female life.
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Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Contexts and Circumstances -- 2 Narcissus and Echo -- 3 Introducing Psyche, Attending Aphrodite -- 4 The Green World -- 5 Learning Transformation -- 6 Eros, Psyche, and N(arr)ativity -- 7 Voluptas beyond the Ending -- 8 Lifeprints -- 9 Retelling Psyche -- Appendix: Apuleius's Cupid and Psyche -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.

In an accessible style and readable prose, Barbara Weir Huber explores the myth of Psyche, interweaving research from diverse disciplines such as current feminist and educational theories, mythology, literature, psychology, and cultural anthropology. She offers an original, critical reinterpretation of the myth, highlighting the way it overtly portrays female experience in a patriarchal context while covertly affirming all aspects of female life.

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