Reimaging the Magdalene : feminism, art, and the counter-reformation /
This book offers a new, intersectional feminist approach to utilising and interpreting the visual reception of Mary Magdalene. Through employment of Liberative Reception Criticism, which develops traditional reception theory in line with liberative hermeneutics, via the insights of intersectionality...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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London ; New York :
T&T Clark,
2025.
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| Series: | Scriptural traces ;
36. Library of New Testament studies ; 695. T & T Clark library of biblical studies. |
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Table of Contents:
- List of Figures - Acknowledgements - Abbreviations - Introduction
- Chapter 1: Liberating the Magdalene
- The paradigm of patriarchy and mythologization
- Liberating reception criticism
- A case study in reimaging
- Part I: The endurance of myth and narrative
- Chapter 2: Mythologizing the Magdalene
- Sources of knowledge
- Sources of mythologization
- Engaging written texts in artistic reception
- Chapter 3: Painting the Magdalene - motifs
- Penitent Magdalenes
- Mourning Magdalenes
- Resurrection Magdalenes
- Othered Magdalenes
- Imaging the Magdalene
- Part II: The power of art and image
- Chapter 4: Decentring 'decency'
- Artemisia Gentileschi - Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy - rereading - reimaging - reimaged
- Chapter 5: Confronting trauma
- El Greco - El Espolio, or the Disrobing of Christ - rereading - reimaging - reimaged
- Chapter 6: Apostola Ecclesiae
- Federico Barocci - Christ Appears to St Mary Magdalene - rereading - reimaging - reimaged
- Chapter 7: The Magdalene from the margins
- Caravaggio - The Conversion of Mary Magdalen - rereading - reimaging - reimaged - Conclusion
- The reimaged Magdalene.