Myth-taken Identity: Margaret Atwood and Carol Ann Duffy’s Feminist Revisionist Mythology

dc.contributor.author	Taylor, Haley
dc.date.accessioned	2017-05-29T20:28:42Z
dc.date.available	2017-05-29T20:28:42Z
dc.date.issued	2017-05
dc.description	Honors Thesis Spring 2017	en_US
dc.description.abstract	In the Western literary canon, Greco-Roman mythology acts as the foundation that all subsequent texts are built upon. For better or for worse, these ancient texts continue to perpetuate harmful ideas about gender, authorship, and storytelling. The reification of these texts simultaneously reinforces misogynist ideas about women’s voices and serves to further exclude women from the legacy of Western literary history. Using the work of contemporary feminist authors, this paper will focus on ways in which we can reimagine our history to be one of inclusion rather than exclusion. Within Margaret Atwood and Carol Ann Duffy’s body of work, both authors use feminist revisionist mythology to reclaim women’s voices that classical mythology mistreated or left out altogether. In doing so, their writings provide a form of literary justice to the women left out of Western literary canon and suggest a new way of approaching canonical texts.	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/11416/314
dc.publisher	Florida Southern College	en_US
dc.subject	Feminism	en_US
dc.subject	Mythology	en_US
dc.subject	Margaret Atwood	en_US
dc.subject	Carol Ann Duffy	en_US
dc.title	Myth-taken Identity: Margaret Atwood and Carol Ann Duffy’s Feminist Revisionist Mythology	en_US
dc.type	Thesis	en_US

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