The Mirror of Hermaphroditus Stone, James W.
Style (University Park, PA),
03/2002, Letnik:
36, Številka:
1
Journal Article
Recenzirano
In Francis Beaumont's Ovidian epyllionSalmacis and Hermaphroditus, there is a linguistic, as opposed to an anatomical, formation of the hermaphrodite. In Beaumont, the crossing of images of red and ...white, of intertwining “Ivy” and “Iv'ry” and “one” and “none,” the crossed expectations of the female in pursuit and the male in flight, and the rhetorical reversal performed by chiasmus–all prescribe the anatomical mixing that consummates the tale. Hermaphroditic sexual union is antithetical: neither one nor none, neither male nor female, both ecstatic liquid mingling and cursed dissolution.
Brooks examines the representation of Catherine de Medicis as Artemisia in French art and music during her reign. Adrian Le Roy's "Airs de cour miz sur le luth," although dedicated to one of the ...queen mother's ladies-in-waiting, resonates strongly with the reading of Catherine as Artemisia. The poem is examined.
In the closet drama The Tragedie of Mariam, Elizabeth Cary utilized a genre of intellectual and political reflection to analyze in detail the dilemma of the female subject under Judeo-Christian ...marriage law and in terms of the wider social contract. Cary shows how the establishment of a gender differential in the legal /social order, specifically the allowance of divorce-at-will for married men, authorizes an inconstancy that fosters social instability. This male legal power, Cary argues, renders the important virtue of moral constancy a structural impossibility for married women. The drama poses the question of whether it is possible for a woman to remain faithful and obedient to an object under the sway of his own shifting appetite. The political context of the events dramatized by the play demonstrates the connection between the regime of marriage and the political order, as Herod's changeability spirals out to become the chaos of a kingdom. Thus Cary's play represents a feminist contribution to the ongoing Renaissance discussion of problems arising in the theorization of resistance and obedience to temporal authority.
Judith Barbara Schmitz; Lydia Lange
Early Jewish Writings,
07/2017
Book Chapter
“No other woman from one end of the earth to the other looks so beautiful or speaks so wisely!” (Jdt 11:21 NRSV)—such is how the soldiers in the Assyrian camp marvel as they look at Judith. They ...marvel above all at her beauty.
The focus in the following contribution will be on the portrait of Judith as presented in the Septuagint; one of the central concerns of this version is the beauty of Judith. In order to describe the portrait of Judith, the Septuagint (LXX), the Greek version of approximately 100 BCE, will first be analyzed and then compared
