Essays about: "feminist mythmaking"

Found 2 essays containing the words feminist mythmaking.

  1. 1. Goddess, Lover, Mother, Witch : Feminist Revisionist Mythmaking and Feminine Morphology of Narrative in Madeline Miller’s Circe

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för konst, kultur och kommunikation (K3)

    Author : Wiktoria Grzybowska; [2023]
    Keywords : feminism; feminist literary theory; greek mythology; feminist mythmaking; revisionism; Circe; Madeline Miller; The Odyssey;

    Abstract : This thesis aims to position Circe by Madeline Miller as an example of feminist revisionist mythmaking and investigate some of the novel’s revisionary practices. I thus begin by introducing the project of feminist revisionism, as conceptualized by several different feminist thinkers. READ MORE

  3. 2. Rewritings of Circe: Representation, Resistance, and Change in Feminist Revisionism

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för konst, kultur och kommunikation (K3)

    Author : Maria Karlsson; [2021]
    Keywords : Rewriting; Feminism; Mythology; Odyssey; Circe; Welty; Atwood; Miller;

    Abstract : This paper analyses the feminist revisionism of the Circe-myth in the rewritings by Eudora Welty, Margaret Atwood, and Madeline Miller. To that end, the paper first examines three different ways of discussing rewritings: Jeremy M. READ MORE