Tag Archives: Margaret Atwood

Guest Post: Re-mythologizing Myths and Fairy Tales in Margaret Atwood’s Surfacing

Posted on 28 January 2019 by

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 →

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Re-mythologizing Myths and Fairy tales in Atwood’s Surfacing

Posted on 16 January 2019 by

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 →

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Thursday 25 February: The Sibyl’s Afterlives

Posted on 23 February 2016 by

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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