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Tag Archives: Margaret Atwood
Intertextual references and myths in The Handmaid’s Tale
Carla Scarano D’Antonio (University of Reading) Intertextual references and myths in The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood Myth Reading Group Wednesday 29 January 2020 1.15 – 2.45 pm Room NTC.2.07 The session will analyse the myths and fairy tales present … Continue reading
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Tagged Eurydice, King James Bible, Margaret Atwood, modern/contemporary literature, Orpheus
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Guest Post: Re-mythologizing Myths and Fairy Tales in Margaret Atwood’s Surfacing
Re-mythologizing Myths and Fairy Tales in Margaret Atwood’s Surfacing Carla Scarano D’Antonio ‘This above all, to refuse to be a victim’ Surfacing A quest of personal and national identity is at the core of Margaret Atwood’s novel Surfacing, published in … Continue reading
Re-mythologizing Myths and Fairy tales in Atwood’s Surfacing
Carla Scarano D’Antonio (University of Reading) Re-mythologizing Myths and Fairy tales: Surfacing (1972) by Margaret Atwood Myth Reading Group Wednesday 23 January 2019 5.00 – 6.30 pm Room NTC.2.05 This session on Surfacing (1972) will explore how Margaret Atwood uses … Continue reading
Thursday 25 February: The Sibyl’s Afterlives
This week Eirini Apanomeritaki introduces a discussion of adaptations of the myth of the Sibyl in literature. In the session, we will discuss the ‘afterlife’ of the myth of the Cumaean Sibyl, the prophetess, who appears in both Virgil’s Aeneid … Continue reading
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Tagged afterlives, Eirini Apanomeritaki, Margaret Atwood, modern/contemporary literature, Ovid, Roman mythology, Sybil, Virgil
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