Open Inquiry Archive Vol. 1, No. 9 (2012) ISSN 2167-8812 Reconceiving Leda: Violence, Eroticism and the Unconscious in H.D. and Dalí By Srishti Krishnamoorthy The rape of Leda by Zeus in the form of a swan has been polysemously enacted within the mythopoetic fabric of Modernism, with each ‘representation’ in effect reconstituting, and […]
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Open Inquiry Archive Vol. 1, No. 9 (2012) RECONCEIVING LEDA: VIOLENCE, EROTICISM and the UNCONSCIOUS in H.D. and DALÍ by Srishti Krishnamoorthy ABSTRACT Krishnamoorthy’s paper attempts to read two Modernist redactions of the myth of the rape of Leda as made available in the 1918 poem “Leda” by Hilda Doolittle and the 1961 painting Leda’s Swan […]
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