Making Myth Matter: Interrogating Narrative and Reconstructing Metanarrative in Classical Myth Adaptation.
- Author / Editor
- Zimmerman, Erin Royden.
Making Myth Matter: Interrogating Narrative and Reconstructing Metanarrative in Classical Myth Adaptation.
- Published
- Dissertation Abstracts International A74.11 (2014): n.p.
- Description
- Includes comments on Cassandra, Persephone, and Philomela as victims of "acquaintance rape" in Chaucer's works (TC, MerT, and LGW), treating his and other versions (classical, medieval, and modern) as adaptations of myths that create "metanarratives that shame rape survivors and demean the violence of the rape act." Offers alternative ways of adapting these stories.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde
Merchant and His Tale
Legend of Good Women
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations