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Post-feminist Impasses in Popular Heroine Television

The Persephone Complex

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  • © 2015

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  1. Alison Horbury

    1. University of Melbourne, Australia

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
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  2. Introduction: Why Persephone?

    • Alison Horbury
    Pages 1-12

  3. The Myth of Persephone and the Hymn to Demeter

    • Alison Horbury
    Pages 13-36

  4. Persephone in Heroine Television: The Post-feminist Impasse

    • Alison Horbury
    Pages 37-67

  5. Persephone as Narrative Symptom: Narrative Transactions in Long-Form Viewership

    • Alison Horbury
    Pages 68-81

  6. Persephone as Epistemological Impasse: The Real Body of Sydney Bristow and ‘The Woman Here Depicted’

    • Alison Horbury
    Pages 82-113

  7. Persephone as Methodological Impasse: Feminine Jouissance in Veronica’s ‘Two Stories’

    • Alison Horbury
    Pages 114-143

  8. Persephone as Historical Impasse: ‘Confrontation and Accommodation’ of the Postfeminist Heroine

    • Alison Horbury
    Pages 144-169

  9. Conclusion: The Persephone Complex

    • Alison Horbury
    Pages 170-177

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 178-217
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About this book

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.

Authors and Affiliations

  • University of Melbourne, Australia

    Alison Horbury

About the author

Alison Horbury completed her doctoral degree in the School of Culture and Communication at the University of Melbourne, Australia, where she currently lectures in the fields of Media Studies, Gender Studies, and Communications.

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