Mythical evocations in modern verses. The figure of Penelope in some contemporary poems
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https://doi.org/10.24197/sxxi.0.2018.135-153Keywords:
feminine literature; myth; Penelope; poetry; Tino Villanueva., femenine literature, myth, Penelope, Tino VillanuevaAbstract
This study aims to illustrate the innovative aspects that reveal themselves through the reading of some of the re-elaborations of the myth of Penelope. The poems of L’altra Penelope (2008) anthology are marked by feminine and feminist connotations that imply a crucial change of viewpoint, although they keep an ontological tie with the archetype. It intends to make a comparison between some of these compositions with the verses of a Chicano writer, Tino Villanueva, who dedicated a collection of poems to the wife of Odysseus. The cardinal porpoise of the analysis is based on the examination of the new thematic paths that establish a binding connection with the past and at the same time they renew the most significant elements of the Homeric narration.
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