Full Description
Alison Horbury investigates the reprisal of the myth of Persephone - a mother-daughter plot of separation and initiation - in post-feminist television cultures where, she argues, it functions as a symptom expressing a complex around the question of sexual difference - what Lacan calls 'sexuation', where this question has been otherwise foreclosed.
Contents
Introduction - Why Persephone?
1. The Myth of Persephone & The Hymn to Demeter
2. Persephone in Heroine Television: The Post-feminist Impasse
3. Persephone as Narrative Symptom: Narrative Transactions in Long-form Viewership
4. Persephone as Epistemological Impasse: The Real Body of Sydney Bristow and ' 'The Woman Here Depicted ' '
5. Persephone as Methodological Impasse: Feminine Jouissance in Veronica ' 's ' 'Two Stories ' '
6. Persephone as Historical Impasse: ' 'Confrontation and Accommodation ' ' of the Post-feminist Heroine
Conclusion - The Persephone Complex
