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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Published in:	Atlantis (0210-6124) Vol. 45; no. 2; pp. 245 - 263
Main Author:	NISA CÁCERES, DANIEL
Format:	Article
Published:	Departament de Llengues i Literatures Modernes i d'Estudis Anglesos Dec2023
Subjects:	Drabble, Margaret, 1939- Old age Seven Sisters, The (Book) Aeneid Cities & towns in art Women Sisters Older women Power (Social sciences) Grotesque London (England)
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