In Stone Blind, classicist and comedian Natalie Haynes turns our understanding of this legendary myth on its head, bringing empathy and nuance to one of the earliest stories in which a woman-injured by a powerful man-is blamed, punished, and monstered for the assault. Until Perseus embarks upon a fateful quest to fetch the head of a Gorgon. Cursed with the power to destroy all she loves with one look, Medusa condemns herself to a life of solitude. Writhing snakes replace her hair and her gaze will turn any living creature to stone. Punished for Poseidon’s actions, Medusa is forever transformed. Furious by the violation of her sacred space, Athene takes revenge-on the young woman. When the sea god Poseidon assaults Medusa in Athene’s temple, the goddess is enraged. Her mortal lifespan gives her an urgency that her family will never know. Unlike her siblings, Medusa grows older, experiences change, feels weakness. The only mortal in a family of gods, Medusa is the youngest of the Gorgon sisters. They will fear you and flee you and call you a monster. The national bestselling author of A Thousand Ships and Pandora's Jar returns with a fresh and stunningly perceptive take on the story of Medusa, the original monstered woman. She succeeds in breathing warm life into some of our oldest stories.”- Telegraph (UK) Longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction 2023
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This book is used in comparative literature classes, and I recommend it to anyone who wishes to learn more about the city or possibly even India. From the criminal underworld of Muslim and Hindu gangs to Bollywood, the slums, and numerous stories of the city’s history, Mehta’s non-fiction book is about the making of the city now called Mumbai. The author is a native of Bombay, India, who writes an insider’s view of city. You can refer to “Maximum City, Bombay Lost and Found” by Suketa Mehta. This blog is based on an assignment in which students (high school level and older) will take a tour of the city by using this blog. Through this journey keep in mind that this is not necessarily the outlook that everyone should have on Mumbai, but it is a view taken and reviewed by others. Most of the topics come from "Maximum City" and the chapter of Mumbai. This blog is based on learning about the history and structure of the city of Mumbai. Take a tour of the city, through the eyes of a native from Bombay, who returned to his home to learn it's secrets. This blog is about the city of Mumbai, once known as Bombay, a city that holds so much history and depth it would be impossible to see everything within a week. It isn't easy to go where you want to, but it is simpler to have the destination come to you. Many people wish to travel to another country, another city. The authenticity of the narration is reflected through the author’s descriptions that directly target and focus on her feelings and emotions: “No I know I should think well of myself, but that is not enough if others don’t love me, I would rather die than living…” (Brontë 60).Īnother interesting feature of the novel from a formalist point of view is the narrator’s communication with the reader. If the formalist theory is applied to Jane Eyre, the main point of such analysis would be the form of the novel (first-person narrative), its structure (lengths of the volumes and chapters), and the imagery (literary devices).įrom a formalist point of view, the first-person narrative is dynamic and authentic, as it ensures that the reader feels as if he or she were experiencing the events described in the book together with the author. The formalist approach implies an analysis of the text that targets components of the text without covering other aspects that could potentially influence its creation (e.g., personal, cultural, political, and historical view of the novel). The paper aims to examine six major types of analysis (formalism, feminism, deconstruction, Marxist, psychoanalytic, and cultural) to evaluate which of them is most appropriate and applicable to the reading of the novel. The novel Jane Eyre was analyzed from multiple points of view and with the help of different approaches. |