Browsing by Subject "Margaret Atwood"
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Spinning a Thread of One's Own from Homer to Atwood
(Brill, 2018)This chapter discusses how Margaret Atwood's The Penelopiad as a continuation of Homer's The Odyssey uses gender as a means to subvert the male-forged myths of masculinity and femininity and offers Helen, Penelope, and the ... -
The Penelopiad: Dislodging the Myth of Penelope as the Archetype of Faithful and Patient Wife
(Celal Bayar University Publications, 2010)Margaret Atwood’s The Penelopiad, a retelling of Homer’s The Odyssey, is narrated by Penelope and the twelve maids. It aims at dislodging the traditional myth, which presents Penelope as the archetype of faithful and patient ...