Women, myth, and the feminine principle

1 The divine feminine in Tibet's Gesar of Ling. 2 Kalidasa's Sanskrit drama, Sakuntala: from passivity to adamantine essence. 3 The Nibelungenlied: Kriemhild and Brunhild--the obsessive/compulsive stress syndrome. 4 The Quiche Mayan Popol Vuh: Mother participates in the creation. 5 Racine's Phaedra: "The horror of remorse". 6 Yeats's Deirdre: an Irish/Celtic feminist and heroine. 7 I.B. Singer's "Yentl the Yeshival boy": gender deconstruction and the fashioning of the modern woman

'It is at once an extraordinary piece of highly diversified scholarship and an excellent critical reading of major literary works read for their intrinsic pertinence. To read this book is truly to plunge into the dazzling and awesome realm of our collective mythical yet real imagination, our swarming psyche of light and darkness.'

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