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Corti focuses on the meaning and importance of the act of child murder in literary treatments of the ancient myth. She insists on the connection between the str
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The widely acclaimed inquiry into the story that inspired Toni Morrison's "Beloved"--a nuanced portrait of the not-so-genteel Southern culture that perpetuated
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Medea is among the most notorious women in the canon of Greek tragedy: a woman scorned who sacrifices her own children to her jealous rage. In her gripping new
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