Lauter, Estella, 1940-

Women as mythmakers : poetry and visual art by twentieth-century women / Estella Lauter. - xvii, 267 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-260) and index.

Introduction: Steps toward a feminist archetypal theory of mythmaking -- Individual visions: Anne Sexton's radical discontent -- Käthe Kollwitz: the power of the mother (with Dominique Rozenberg) -- Margaret Atwood: remythologizing Circe -- Remedios Varo: the creative woman and the female quest -- Diane Wakoski: disentangling the woman from the moon -- Léonor Fini: re-envisioning La belle dame sans merci -- Collective visions: Mythic patterns in contemporary visual art by women -- "Woman and nature" revisited in poetry by women -- Conclusion: The light is in us. pt. 1. ch. 1. ch. 2. ch. 3. ch. 4. ch. 5. ch. 6. pt. 2. ch. 7. ch. 8.

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Feminism and the arts
Women artists
Women poets
Art and mythology
Arts, Modern--20th century.

NX180.F4 / L38 1984

700.88042