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When a Feminist Meets the Muse

Author(s): Jan Kwapisz
Subject(s): Literary Texts
Published by: Komitet Nauk o Kulturze Antycznej Polskiej Akademii Nauk
Keywords: Margaret Atwood; Homer; review

Summary/Abstract: A critical essay on Margaret Atwood’s The Penelopiad. An attempt made by Atwood to reread the myth of Penelope might be easily disregarded as a trivial postmodernist pastiche bearing too much resemblance to school assignments. Yet it is argued here that the novel deserves more serious consideration as belonging to the genre of “historicizing writings” instead of being a mere literary game, since its true value lies in Atwood’s ability to evoke the problems of the present by referring to the past.

  • Issue Year: 60/2005
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 253-258
  • Page Count: 6
  • Language: Polish
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