Despite the universal opinion that the sequel was decidedly weaker than the original, it nevertheless did well enough to go into several editions. The Saturday Review noted that it was a book which, even if...
Intertextuality and Influence
Hélène Cixous
Jewoman again discusses myth, particularly that of Orestes, Agamemnon's son, who kills his mother Clytemnestra. Upon Agamemnon's return from the Trojan War (as related in drama by Æschylus
and others), Clytemnestra murdered him because, before...
Textual Production
Anne Carson
AC
's translations from Greek manage to incorporate some of the quirkiness of her original texts and titles. She titled If Not, Winter. Fragments of Sappho, 2002, from a poetic scrap that leaves the...
Textual Production
Mona Caird
One of MC
's best-known novels appeared: The Daughters of Danaus (the first novel among the selection mentioned in the Times after her death, and reprinted by the Feminist Press
in 1989).
In Greek mythology...
Textual Production
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Elizabeth Barrett
's first volume produced independently of family help, Prometheus Bound, Translated from the Greek of Æschylus; and Miscellaneous Poems, by the Translator, was published anonymously. It consisted largely of her translation of Æschylus
' tragedy.
Garrett, Martin. A Browning Chronology: Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning. Macmillan, 2000.
It contained the contents of the previous volumes, a new translation of Æschylus
's Prometheus Bound, The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim's Point, and further sonnets. These including sonnets on her sisters, her dog...
Textual Production
Christine Brooke-Rose
CBR
published Amalgamemnon, a novel written in the future and conditional tenses, the subjunctive or imperative moods,
qtd. in
Birch, Sarah. Christine Brooke-Rose and Contemporary Fiction. Clarendon Press, 1994.
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which relates a modern woman to the Homeric
, or Æschylean
, Trojan prophet Cassandra.
“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
Birch, Sarah. Christine Brooke-Rose and Contemporary Fiction. Clarendon Press, 1994.