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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"The Penelopiad"”.
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Weaving with words: Recording women’s experiences in feminist revisionary adaptations of Greek myth
From the beginning, mythmaking has been profoundly patriarchal, and with the emergence of feminist movements came feminist revisionary adaptations of ancient myth. In this thesis, I argue Margaret Atwood’s The Penelopiad (2005) and Madeline Miller’s Circe (2018) both stand as examples of feminist …
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Disarming the canon : exploring Tepper’s and Atwood’s retelling of classical (her)story
This dissertation explores the ways in which two contemporary texts, Sheri S. Tepper’s (1990) The gate to Women’s Country and Margaret Atwood’s (2005) The Penelopiad, adapt classical texts by Euripides and Homer in order to make and strengthen statements about contemporary gender ideologies that …
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An Exploration of Modern American Cultural History: An Undergraduate American Studies Course Proposal
<p>This project develops the curriculum for an undergraduate level American Studies course that uses three themes as its basic organizational structure. Through an interdisciplinary humanities methodology, the project specifically examines the way in which American cultural products (art, …
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From Zero Hour to Kudzucene: Reading Margaret Atwood’s Post-Millennial Novels under the Auspices of Anthropocene Thought
This thesis reads the post-millennial novels of acclaimed Canadian author Margaret Atwood with the aim of exploring the possibilities for narrating the Anthropocene in an epoch that resists both intelligibility and description. In so doing, the thesis seeks to address a key issue for literary …
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Dames of Distress: Female Violence and Revised Socio-Cultural Discourses in the Fiction of Margaret Atwood
This study examines the figure of the violent woman in Atwood’s fiction as a productive starting point for the re-evaluation of various socio-cultural debates. Emerging from Atwood’s conviction that art, in its various forms, is often involved in the re-writing of convention, I begin by re-defining …