Making Herstory: A Reading of Miller’s Circe and Atwood’s Penelopiad

Díaz Morillo, Ester

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Making Herstory: A Reading of Miller’s Circe and Atwood’s Penelopiad

dc.contributor.author	Díaz Morillo, Ester
dc.date.accessioned	2025-06-26T10:53:51Z
dc.date.available	2025-06-26T10:53:51Z
dc.date.issued	2020-12
dc.description	The registered version of this article, first published in GAUDEAMUS, No. 0, 2020, pp. 9–25, is available online from the publisher's website: https://asyras.org/making-herstory-a-reading-of-millers-circe-and-atwoods-penelopiad/. La versión registrada de este artículo, publicado por primera vez en GAUDEAMUS, nº 0, 2020, pp. 9-25, está disponible en línea en el sitio web del editor: https://asyras.org/making-herstory-a-reading-of-millers-circe-and-atwoods-penelopiad/.
dc.description.abstract	This article is concerned with herstories and the retelling of myths. For the purpose of the present research, we will analyse Madeline Miller’s Circe and compare it to Margaret Atwood’s The Penelopiad. North-American author Madeline Miller gives voice to goddess and sorceress Circe, protagonist of this book inhabited by other Homeric characters. For its part, The Penelopiad is a novella written by Canadian author Margaret Atwood in a series of rewritings of myths. In this book, based on the Homeric Odyssey, the focus is turned to Penelope, wife of Odysseus, who tells us her story from the Hades, as well as to her maids, hanged by Telemachus after Odysseus’s return. Both books are, therefore, related to Greek mythology and, more precisely, to Homer’s Odyssey. Both authors aim at retelling those myths through a female perspective, making use of herstory in order to do so. Analysing the novels from the perspective of feminism, we will see how the authors make their revisions of a canonical work in order to give voice to previously silenced voices in history how they present their female characters by calling myths into question, and, therefore, by challenging male authority and patriarchal society.	en
dc.description.version	versión publicada
dc.identifier.citation	Díaz Morillo, Ester. “Making Herstory: A Reading of Miller’s Circe and Atwood’s Penelopiad.” GAUDEAMUS, nº 0, 2020, pp. 9-25.
dc.identifier.issn	2697-2166
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14468/26935
dc.journal.title	Gaudeamus
dc.journal.volume	0
dc.language.iso	en
dc.page.final	25
dc.page.initial	9
dc.publisher	Association of Young Researchers on Anglophone Studies
dc.relation.center	Facultad de Filología
dc.relation.department	Filologías Extranjeras y sus Lingüísticas
dc.rights	info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.rights.uri	Atribución-NoComercial-SinDerivadas 4.0 Internacional
dc.subject	55 Historia::5505 Ciencias auxiliares de la historia::5505.10 Filología
dc.subject.keywords	herstory	en
dc.subject.keywords	myths	en
dc.subject.keywords	women	en
dc.subject.keywords	Odyssey	en
dc.subject.keywords	feminism	en
dc.title	Making Herstory: A Reading of Miller’s Circe and Atwood’s Penelopiad	en
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dc.type	journal article	en
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