Sibylline SistersVirgil's Presence in Contemporary Women's Writing

Virgil's presence in contemporary women's writing

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ID8088047
AuthorsFiona Cox (corresponding author)
Year2011
Pages284
Publication date2011-09-01
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueSibylline sisters (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherOxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199582969.001.0001
OpenAlexW598049296
ISBN9780199582969
Open LibraryOL25179573M
Google Booksap3ZSjRkBxIC
LanguageEN
Citations received28

The history of Virgil and his receptions is long and varied. His 20th-century career transformed his appearance as an anaemic imitator of Homer into the ‘Father of the West’, speaking above all for the marginalized and exiled. At the turn of the millennium it is women writers who, having been largely absent from the story of Virgil's reception, are for the first time shaping a new aetas Vergiliana by drawing on his poems to speak of their own preoccupations and concerns. Through an analysis of Virgil's presence in the work of contemporary women writers from North America (Joyce Carol Oates, Janet Lembke, Ursula Le Guin), Britain (Margaret Drabble, A. S. Byatt, Ruth Fainlight, Michèle Roberts, Carol Ann Duffy, U. A. Fanthorpe, Josephine Balmer), Ireland (Eavan Boland), and continental Europe (Christa Wolf, Hélène Cixous, Charlotte Delbo, and Monique Wittig), this book identifies a new Virgil: one who speaks in female tones of the anxieties, exclusions, pleasures, and threats of the contemporary world. While each of the female writers included in this volume draws upon her own distinct cultural heritage, the book focuses on a number of shared themes and values which emerge through their work

Art · Art history · Literature · Performance art · Poetry · Sociology · Gender Studies · History · Irish and British Studies · 20th century · 21st century · Influence · Literature, collections · Virgil · Women authors

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