Pretty Corpses, Shrews, Earth Mothers, Mad Women and New Women:
Female Archetypes in American Literature
(English 64)
Resources

Contents:

• Classical Mythology
• World Mythology
• Fairy Tales, Fables, Folklore and Legends
• Archetypes
• Women's Writing/Women in Writing
• Research Databases
• Image Searching on the Web
• Return to Resources by Subject

Classical Mythology

Athena [interactive multimedia] : classical mythology on CD-ROM

Women in Greek Myth (Most helpful chapter is "Princess Ida and the Amazons." Gives useful information on Amazon Myth)

Amazons: A Study in Athenian Mythmaking (Says we don't know whether Amazons actually existed but can see myth as providing cultural information. Chapter Two--matriarchy. Chapter Four--Amazons as combination of males and females. Pp. 86-7--Amazons and castration. Pp. 104-110--Medusa. Pp. 127-128--Greek patriarchy.)

After the Fall: The Demeter-Persephone Myth in Wharton, Cather and Glasgow (Introduction--importance of mother-daughter bond in interpreting female identity. Pp 104-108--O Pioneers! Pp. 59-61--House of Mirth. Introduction--"The White Heron.")

The Goddess of Love (Chapter One--Aphrodite's birth and Association with the sea. Throughout--Illustrations of Aphrodite in art. Chapter 11--Association of Aphrodite with doves and roses.)

Eleusis: Archetypal Image of Mother and Daughter (Part I, Section II--Demeter/Persephone myth)

Dictionary of classical mythology : symbols, attributes & associations

Universal pronouncing dictionary of biography and mythology

The dictionary of classical mythology

Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology

Mythology : an illustrated encyclopedia

The dictionary of imaginary places

A dictionary of classical antiquities : mythology, religion, literature & art

The Oxford guide to classical mythology in the arts, 1300-1990s

Crowell's handbook of classical mythology

A classical dictionary: containing an account of the principal proper names mentioned in ancient authors and intended to elucidate all the important points connected with geography, history, biography, mythology, and fine arts of the Greeks and Romans

Classical myths and legends in the Middle Ages and Renaissance : a dictionary of allegorical meanings

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World Mythology

The Masks of God (Vol. 3, pp. 52-56--Medusa/ Vol. 2--Chinese belief in the five elements)

The Mythology of all races

Mythologies

Dictionary of Native American mythology

The gods and symbols of ancient Mexico and the Maya : an illustrated dictionary of Mesoamerican religion

The illustrated dictionary of Hindu iconography

Dictionary of deities and demons in the Bible DDD

Harper's dictionary of Hinduism : its mythology, folklore, philosophy, literature, and history

Goddesses in world mythology

Dictionary of Celtic religion and culture

The sacred scriptures of the Japanese

A dictionary of Irish mythology

A dictionary of ancient Near Eastern mythology

Everyman's dictionary of non-classical mythology

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Fairy Tales, Fables, Folklore and Legends

The complete fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm

The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales

Brewer's Dictionary of phrase & fable

Funk & Wagnalls standard dictionary of folklore, mythology and legend

Index to Fairy Tales, Myths and Legends

Clowns & tricksters : an encyclopedia of tradition and culture

Folklore in American literature

Dictionary of World Folklore

American folklore: an encyclopedia

Australian Folklore

An encyclopedia of Fairies

Folklore

A dictionary of British folk-tales in the English language

Motif-index of folk-literature; a classification of narrative elements in folktales, ballads, myths, fables, mediaeval romances, exempla, fabliaux, jest-books, and local legends

The encyclopaedia of Arthurian legends

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Archetypes

Archetypal dimensions of the psyche

Collected works: The archetypes and the collective unconscious (Volume 9, part 1)

Dancing with goddesses : archetypes, poetry, and empowerment

An encyclopedia of archetypal symbolism

The fatal hero : Diana, deity of the moon, as an archetype of the modern hero in English literature

The heroine in western literature : the archetype and her reemergence in modern prose

Meeting the madwoman : an inner challenge for feminine spirit

The myth of analysis; three essays in archetypal psychology

Native American identities : from stereotype to archetype in art and literature

Our ladies of darkness : feminine daemonology in male gothic fiction

Regional perspectives; an examination of America's literary heritage

Women who run with the wolves : myths and stories of the wild woman archetype

Zeus and Hera : archetypal image of father, husband, and wife

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Women's Writing/Women in Writing

Reinventing Womanhood (Woman as outsider/failure of women writers in creating self-actualized female protagonists/social and psychological theory about female childhood development/institution of marriage/etc.)

Communities of Women: An Idea in Fiction (Pp. 55-73--Little Women and sequels/Joyous celebration of female community resourceful in rising above poverty/Marriage presented mournfully--not the only satisfactory destiny for women)

Sister’s Choice: Tradition and Change in American Women’s Writing

The Captive Imagination: A Casebook on The Yellow Wallpaper

The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination

The Resisting Reader: A Feminist Approach to American Fiction

The Faces of Eve: Women in the Nineteenth-Century American Novel

Meeting the Madwoman: An Inner Challenge for Feminine Spirit

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Databases

M.L.A.

Humanities Abstracts

Oxford English Dictionary

ALCUIN Try keyword combinations, or do a subject search for the author's name and look for subject headings "criticism and interpretation" or "characters women."

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Image Searching on the Web

Alta Vista Image Search

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