De revisionistische muze | Amsterdam University Press Journals Online
2004
Volume 56, Issue 3
  • ISSN: 0165-8204
  • E-ISSN: 2667-1573

Abstract

Abstract

Although the phenomenon of modern retellings of Greco-Roman myth from a female perspective is not new in and of itself (e.g. Christa Wolf’s , 1983, and , 1996, Margaret Atwood’s , 2005, and Ursula Le Guin’s , 2008), more recent years, starting from approximately 2017, have seen an unprecedented boom in the publication of such novels. In this contribution, I outline the phenomenon of rewriting with the help of some literary theory (Genette, Plate) and I try to chart what is at stake in these recent retellings. Does the choice for a female perspective also imply a feminist stance? Why are these stories being rewritten at this time? And why are they so hugely popular?

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