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Euripides’ Medea: The Incarnation Of Disorder, Emily Mcdermott Dec 1988

Euripides’ Medea: The Incarnation Of Disorder, Emily Mcdermott

Emily A. McDermott

Euripides' Medea, produced in the year that the Peloponnesian War began, presents the first in a parade of vivid female tragic protagonists across the Euripidean stage. Throughout the centuries it has been regarded as one of the most powerful of the Greek tragedies. McDermott's starting point is an assessment of the character of Medea herself. She confronts the question: What does an audience do with a tragic protagonist who is at once heroic, sympathetic, and morally repugnant? We see that the play portrays a world from which all order has been deliberately and pointedly removed and in which the very …

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Tender Miscarriage: An Epiphany, Paula Saffire Dec 1988

Tender Miscarriage: An Epiphany, Paula Saffire

Paula Saffire

Tender Miscarriage is the author's account of one particularly turbulent year in her life, characterized by personal and family transition complicated by a pregnancy that ultimately ends in empty arms. Intertwined with the unavoidable stresses and demands of this transition is the author's recountings of the emotional events of her pregnancy, up to and beyond the point of her loss, ultimately leading her to a place of understanding.

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