Sibylline sisters : Virgil's presence in contemporary women's writing /
Through an analysis of Virgil's presence in the work of contemporary women writers from North America, Britain, Ireland and continental Europe, this book identifies a new Virgil: one who speaks in female tones of the anxieties, exclusions pleasures and threats of the contemporary world.
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2011.
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| Series: | Classical presences.
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Table of Contents:
- Virgil in contemporary women's poetry
- Ruth Fainlight
- Eavan Boland
- Michèle Roberts
- Margaret Drabble
- A.S. Byatt
- Christa Wolf
- Monique Wittig
- Joyce Carol Oates
- Janet Lembke
- Ursula Le Guin.
