YAMAGUCHI R. LOVE AND REVENGE. APHRODITIC AMBIVALENCE: FROM EURIPIDES’ MEDEA TO IVAN TURGENEV’S THE SONG OF TRIUMPHANT LOVE // Studia Humanitatis Borealis. 2026. Vol. 1. № 1. P. 41‒49.
DOI: 10.15393/j12.art.2026.4325
Issue № 1
CULTURAL STUDIES
LOVE AND REVENGE. APHRODITIC AMBIVALENCE: FROM EURIPIDES’ MEDEA TO IVAN TURGENEV’S THE SONG OF TRIUMPHANT LOVE
| YAMAGUCHI RYOKO | PhD in Philology, Lecturer, Doshisha University, Faculty of global and regional studies, Kyoto, Japan, Хcjv52910@icloud.com |
| Ключевые слова: female love madness magic patriarchal order mythological ambivalence | Аннотация: This paper analyzes the image of female love as an ambivalent and potentially destructive force in the ancient and Russian literary traditions. Analyzing Euripides’ tragedy Medea and Ivan Turgenev’s novel The Song of Triumphant Love, it shows that “female madness” is constructed not as an individual pathology, but as a symbolic response to the male-centered social order that displaces the female will and affect. Love appears as a force, both creative and destructive, associated with magic, violation of boundaries, and crisis of family and civil structures, with its Aphroditic duality expressed in the figures of Medea and Valeria, whose actions reveal the hidden vulnerability of the normative order. © Petrozavodsk State University |
Is received: 28 march 2026 year Is passed for the press: 30 march 2026 year | |
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