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Women and Intertextuality: On the Example of Margaret Atwood’s The Penelopiad

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Lisowska K., University of Wrocław, Katarzyna Lisowska is a Ph.D. student in the Institute of Polish Philology at the University of Wrocław. The subjects of her interest are Gender Studies e. s. c. a. M. s. S.

Analyses/Rereadings/Theories: A Journal Devoted to Literature, Film and Theatre

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2014

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vol. 2

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issue 1

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The aim of the study is to consider feminist retellings of myths and legends. As an example, Margaret Atwood’s book The Penelopiad is analyzed. The interpretation is situated in a broader context of intertextual practices characteristic of the feminist vision of literature. I present the ideas which Atwood shares with authors engaged in women’s movement. Among these there is Atwood’s understanding of intertextuality (noticeable especially in The Penelopiad). Bibliographical basis of the study comprises books which are fundamental to feminist and gender criticism (e.g. Poetics of Gender, ed. by N. Miller, New York 1986; S. M. Gilbert, S. Gubar The Madwoman in the Attic. The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth- Century Literary Imagination, New Haven and London 1984). What is more, the study refers to the books which allow considering the notion of intertextuality (G. Allen, Intertextuality, London and New York 2010, J. Clayton. E. Rothstein (eds.), Influence and Intertextuality in Literary History, Wisconsin 1991) and connecting the interpretation with the problems crucial to contemporary literary studies (L. Hutcheon L. A Poetics of Postmodernism. History, Theory, Fiction, New York and London 1988, B. Johnson, A World of Difference, Baltimore and London 1989).

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Women and Intertextuality: On the Example of Margaret Atwood’s The Penelopiad

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Lisowska K.

Analyses/Rereadings/Theories: A Journal Devoted to Literature, Film and Theatre

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2014

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vol. 2

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issue 1

18-27

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The aim of the study is to consider feminist retellings of myths and legends. As an example, Margaret Atwood’s book The Penelopiad is analyzed. The interpretation is situated in a broader context of intertextual practices characteristic of the feminist vision of literature. I present the ideas which Atwood shares with authors engaged in women’s movement. Among these there is Atwood’s understanding of intertextuality (noticeable especially in The Penelopiad). Bibliographical basis of the study comprises books which are fundamental to feminist and gender criticism (e.g. Poetics of Gender, ed. by N. Miller, New York 1986; S. M. Gilbert, S. Gubar The Madwoman in the Attic. The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth- Century Literary Imagination, New Haven and London 1984). What is more, the study refers to the books which allow considering the notion of intertextuality (G. Allen, Intertextuality, London and New York 2010, J. Clayton. E. Rothstein (eds.), Influence and Intertextuality in Literary History, Wisconsin 1991) and connecting the interpretation with the problems crucial to contemporary literary studies (L. Hutcheon L. A Poetics of Postmodernism. History, Theory, Fiction, New York and London 1988, B. Johnson, A World of Difference, Baltimore and London 1989).

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Arachne z ulotną nicią. Sygnatura kobieca w późnej poezji Bogusławy Latawiec

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Dembińska-Pawelec J.

Poznańskie Studia Polonistyczne. Seria Literacka

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2018

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issue 32

267-283

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The author of this sketch interprets Bogusława Latawiec’s poems in the context of women’s signatures. Poetry of Latawiec was usually read by critics in relation to the Polish avant-garde tradition represented by men: J. Przyboś and T. Karpowicz. The author recalls N. K. Miller’s proposition of feminist reading and her theory of text as an arachnology. Analysing Latawiec’s poems she shows some signs of feminine writing contained in metaphors: a thread, textiles, weaving, sewing, needlework. These signs are of particular importance in the metatextual poems talking about the process of creating as a weaving a text.

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2 Analyses/Rereadings/Theories: A Journal Devoted to Literature, Film and Theatre

1 Poznańskie Studia Polonistyczne. Seria Literacka

2 Lisowska K.

1 Dembińska-Pawelec J.

1 Katarzyna Lisowska is a Ph.D. student in the Institute of Polish Philology at the University of Wrocław. The subjects of her interest are Gender Studies e. s. c. a. M. s. S.

1 University of Wrocław

1 2018

2 2014

Women and Intertextuality: On the Example of Margaret Atwood’s The Penelopiad

Women and Intertextuality: On the Example of Margaret Atwood’s The Penelopiad

Arachne z ulotną nicią. Sygnatura kobieca w późnej poezji Bogusławy Latawiec