Amy Wygant
Ashgate
Hardback
228
2007
Revealing the surprising trajectory of our contemporary obsession with magic Amy Wygant here follows the figure of Medea the great antique witch and child-murderess through her appearances on the early modern French stage from La P?ruse to Corneille to Cherubini by way of medical treatises visual images cultural practices and poetics. This cross-disciplinary study shows that Medea is our mirror and her story is the story of cultural performance.
Ashgate
Hardback
228
2007
Revealing the surprising trajectory of our contemporary obsession with magic Amy Wygant here follows the figure of Medea the great antique witch and child-murderess through her appearances on the early modern French stage from La P?ruse to Corneille to Cherubini by way of medical treatises visual images cultural practices and poetics. This cross-disciplinary study shows that Medea is our mirror and her story is the story of cultural performance.