A Virgilian Descent into Gendered Old Age: London katabasis in Margaret Drabble's The Seven Sisters.
This article analyses the katabasis mytheme in Margaret Drabble's The Seven Sisters (2002), laying special emphasis on her contemporary revisionist reimagining of the Aeneid. A dialogue with Virgil's male-centred epic poem becomes both a starting point and a destination when death is just around the...
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Departament de Llengues i Literatures Modernes i d'Estudis Anglesos
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=hlh&AN=174584899&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: hlh uiTerm: 174584899 longDbName: Humanities International Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 02106124 VSM jtl: Atlantis (0210-6124) issn: 02106124 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Dec2023 vid: 45 iid: 2 pid: 19799 pub: Departament de Llengues i Literatures Modernes i d'Estudis Anglesos artinfo: ui: 174584899 10.28914/Atlantis-2023-45.2.12 ppf: 245 ppct: 18 formats: fmt: @attributes: type: P size: 1.2MB tig: atl: A Virgilian Descent into Gendered Old Age: London katabasis in Margaret Drabble's The Seven Sisters. aug: au: NISA CÁCERES, DANIEL affil: Universidad Pablo de Olavide su: Drabble, Margaret, 1939- Old age Seven Sisters, The (Book) Aeneid Cities & towns in art Women Sisters Older women Power (Social sciences) Grotesque London (England) sug: subj: London (England) Drabble, Margaret, 1939- Old age Seven Sisters, The (Book) Aeneid Cities & towns in art Women Sisters Older women Power (Social sciences) Grotesque keyword: descenso al inframundo descent to the Underworld Eneida lo grotesco Margaret Drabble old age reescrituras de autoría femenina the Aeneid the grotesque vejez women's rewritings descenso al inframundo Eneida lo grotesco reescrituras de autoría femenina vejez ab: This article analyses the katabasis mytheme in Margaret Drabble's The Seven Sisters (2002), laying special emphasis on her contemporary revisionist reimagining of the Aeneid. A dialogue with Virgil's male-centred epic poem becomes both a starting point and a destination when death is just around the corner, intimated and sublimated as it is by London, a city that correlates to the Virgilian Underworld as a dark, damp topos, plagued by grotesque lost souls wandering about its liminal spaces. This close reading of the trope will not only provide a critical insight into Drabble's subversive reworking of Aeneas's descent to the Underworld from a female-centred perspective, but will also explore how the mythical resignification of the London urban landscape mediates an ongoing redefinition of women's old age and its tense power relations with the past, the present and the future. Este artículo analiza el mitema de la katabasis en The Seven Sisters (2002), de Margaret Drabble, haciendo hincapié en su recreación revisionista contemporánea de la Eneida. Un diálogo con el poema épico androcéntrico de Virgilio es a la vez punto de partida y llegada cuando la muerte acecha, insinuada y sublimada en la representación de Londres, ciudad que guarda correlación con el húmedo y oscuro inframundo virgiliano como topos plagado de grotescas almas en pena vagando por sus espacios liminales. De ahí que una lectura detenida de este motivo no solo permita ahondar críticamente en cómo Drabble lo subvierte al reescribir el descenso al inframundo de Eneas desde una perspectiva ginocéntrica, sino también explorar cómo la resignificación mítica del paisaje urbano londinense es transmisora de la redefinición en curso de la vejez femenina y sus tensas relaciones de poder con el pasado, presente y futuro. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: Y custom: Copyright of Atlantis (0210-6124) is the property of Departament de Llengues i Literatures Modernes i d'Estudis Anglesos and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites without the copyright holder's express written permission. Additionally, content may not be used with any artificial intelligence tools or machine learning technologies. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. item: Atlantis (0210-6124) holder: Departament de Llengues i Literatures Modernes i d'Estudis Anglesos dt: @attributes: year: 2023 holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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