Rewriting Classical Epic:
A Panorama of Female-Authored Novels on the Trojan War in the Twenty-First Century.
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https://doi.org/10.46661/ambigua.8436Keywords:
rewritings, women writers, contemporary narrative, comparative literature, classical receptions, classical mythology, Greco-Latin epic, feminism and literature, gender studies, Trojan WarAbstract
This paper overviews contemporary female-authored rewritings of the Iliad, the Odyssey and the Aeneid. In the 21st century, there has been a noticeable explosion of novels on this theme (especially but not exclusively in the English-speaking world), within the more general framework of retellings of the classics; noteworthy is also their generic and creative variety. This study succinctly traces the lines of evolution of this phenomenon, provides different possibilities for critical exploration and analyses some key characteristics of these narratives, while reflecting on the factors that have led to this expanding literary trend.
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