Tragic Heroines and Wise Women in the Novels of Somerville and Ross by Angela Ryan

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Marriage, Motherhood, and Self-Blame: Analyzing the Tragic Heroine’s Spiritual Suicide in Jude the Obscure by Wenona Bea Javier

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Moral transgressions against Victorian society in the tragic plays of Oscar Wilde by Qurratulain Javid

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Michael Field’s Long Ago (1889): A Transcendental Mythopoesis of Desire and Death by Mayron Estefan Cantillo Lucuara

“…I present all these myths jointly, discuss their assonances with the Sapphic archetype, and reveal how they constitute a coherent and elaborate mythography that portrays Sappho as a tragic heroine who, through the power of myth, embodies a universal paradigm of human affectivity.…”
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Ballet in the Dark: A Critical Review of Black Swan by Darren Aronofsky by Rina Angela Corpus

“…Black Swan’s filmmakers created a narrative out of a performance of the classic ballet Swan Lake, making it a mimicry of the life of the tragic heroine Nina Sayers (Natalie Portman). The symptomatic pathology of perfectionism haunts the lead character, revealing her manifest hubris while unmasking the systemic social conditioning of women in the ballet system. …”
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Sappho in Lyric IV: Michael Field’s Spatial Poetics of Desire and Defeat by Mayron Estefan Cantillo-Lucuara

“… In this article, I offer a close reading of Michael Field’s Long Ago (1889), specifically of lyric IV, with the primary aim of showing how Katharine Bradley and her niece Edith Cooper appropriate the archaic figure of Sappho, dramatise her Ovidian romantic tragedy and, in so doing, reconceptualise the notional category of space in two complementary ways: on the one hand, lyric space becomes a tense locus of contention between form-as-hope and content-as-despair and, on the other, the correlation established between space, nature and gender results in a transgressive topography in which, as I conclude, a new Sappho emerges both as a tragic heroine and as an extremely possessive consciousness laden with sheer Hegelian desire. …”
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Ophelia, more or less. Intersemiotic reinterpretations of a Shakespearean character by Percec Dana, Pungă Loredana

“…Ophelia, Shakespeare’s most tragic heroine, seems to be the character who has generated much more enthusiasm on the part of visual artists than on the part of literary critics. …”
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Performing Grief by Anastasia Bakogianni

“…But so enthralling is the portrayal of her grief that it has become the most prominent strand of the tragic heroine’s reception. This paper investigates two examples of Sophocles’ Electra in performance at the end of the last millennium, as a means of unpicking two very different approaches to the portrayal of ‘tragic’ grief on the modern Greek stage. …”
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“Her tears fell with the dews at even”: The Ekphrastic and Intertextual Dialogue between Victorian Poetry and Pre-Raphaelite Painting by Rejano Rocío Moyano

“…Through interfigurality, Tennyson opts to present her as a “tragic” heroine and she is depicted from a pessimistic perspective. …”
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The Tragic Nightingale Between Lament and Revenge by Alessandra Abbattista

“…Through a reversal of the mythological transformation of Procne, they capture the tragic heroines in their dramaturgical passage from lament to revenge. …”
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The Lineup: Passion, Transgression, and Mythical Women in Roman Painting by Bettina Bergmann

“…The Tor Marancia frescoes appear to be one surviving example of a much older, ongoing tradition of Greek and Roman pictorial galleries of tragic heroines.…”
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NEW PERSPECTIVES ON OLD IDEAS: FRIEDRICH DÜRRENMATT'S PARODIES OF MYTHS AND ARCHETYPES by Sonja Novak

“…Who dares to mock tragic heroines like Antigone? Who dares to mock the biblical Judith and her bravery? …”
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NEW PERSPECTIVES ON OLD IDEAS: FRIEDRICH DÜRRENMATT'S PARODIES OF MYTHS AND ARCHETYPES by Sonja Novak

“…Who dares to mock tragic heroines like Antigone? Who dares to mock the biblical Judith and her bravery? …”
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