Replenishing the Odyssey: Margaret Atwood’s and John Barth’s Postmodern Epics

The paper focuses on Margaret Atwood’s novel The Penelopiad and John Barth’s short stories “Menelaiad” and “Anonymiad,” comparing the approaches of the two authors in their postmodernist retellings of Homer’s Odyssey. Both Atwood and Barth base their narratives on minor episodes from this epic, wit...

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Main Author: Bojana Aćamović
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Ljubljana Press (Založba Univerze v Ljubljani) 2020-05-01
Series:ELOPE
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Online Access:https://journals.uni-lj.si/elope/article/view/9050