Bitter scrolls : sexist poison in the canon /
Bitter Scrolls is a broad survey of our "sacred texts," both Holy Writ (Hebrew Bible, New Testament, Qur'an) and secular masterpieces, from the Epic of Gilgamesh to the work of William Butler Yeats and D.H. Lawrence, whose canonical status often exempts them from the sort of hardnosed...
Saved in:
Author / Creator: | |
---|---|
Format: | Book |
Language: | English |
Imprint: | Lanham, Md. : University Press of America, [2011] |
Subjects: |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowlegments
- Introduction: In Their Own Words
- Chapter 1. Gilgamesh: Off to a Very Bad Start
- Chapter 2. The Mightiest, Manliest Murderers
- Chapter 3. Clytemnestra's Ghost: Aeschylus Puts Women in Their Place
- Chapter 4. Moses: Misogyny in High Places
- Chapter 5. Paul: Christianity's Founder Founders
- Chapter 6. Muhammad Keeps the Ladies in Line
- Chapter 7. Boccaccio and the Renaissance Playboy Philosophy
- Chapter 8. Rabelais and the Triumph of Youmanism
- Chapter 9. Thoroughtly Unmodern Willie: Shakespeare's Women
- Chapter 10. Milton Confronts the Biblical Babe
- Chapter 11. Alexander Pope's Dissonant Classical Symphony
- Chapter 12. Wordsworth and the Helpless Female
- Chapter 13. Tolstoy's Women: Barefoot in the Dacha
- Chapter 14. W.B. Yeats: The Last of the Red-Hot Lovers
- Chapter 15. D.H. Lawrence: Hierophant Unhinged
- Chapter 16. Salvation Through the Feminine Canon?
- Chapter 17. Leftover Toxins
- About the Author