The Penelopiad
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The Penelopiad is a novella by Margaret Atwood that retells the story of Odysseus’s wife Penelope and her twelve maids from a feminist, revisionist perspective.
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| instanceOf |
feminist literature
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literary work → novella → retelling of myth → |
| adaptationOf |
Greek mythology
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| author |
Margaret Atwood
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| basedOn |
Odyssey
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| contains |
choral interludes
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poetic sections → |
| countryOfOrigin |
Canada
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| featuresCharacter |
Eurycleia
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Helen of Troy → Telemachus → |
| focusesOn |
execution of the twelve maids
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| form |
prose
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| genre |
feminist fiction
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myth retelling → postmodern fiction → |
| hasAdaptation |
The Penelopiad (stage play)
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| hasISBN |
9781841957173
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| language |
English
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| literaryMovement |
contemporary literature
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| mainCharacter |
Odysseus
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Penelope → the twelve maids → |
| mediumOfAdaptation |
theatre
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| narrativePerspective |
choral narration by the twelve maids
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first-person narration by Penelope → |
| partOf |
modern myth retellings trend
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| publicationSeries |
Canongate Myth Series
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| publicationYear |
2005
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| publisher |
Canongate Books
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| questionedCharacter |
heroic image of Odysseus
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| questions |
patriarchal versions of myth
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| retellsFromPerspectiveOf |
Penelope
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the twelve maids → |
| revisesWork |
traditional narrative of the Odyssey
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| setting |
Hades
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Ithaca → |
| theme |
feminist reinterpretation of myth
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justice and guilt → memory and storytelling → power and patriarchy → voice of marginalized women → |
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The Penelopiad
("The Penelopiad (stage play)")
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Margaret Atwood
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