‘Back from the silence with something to say’: Ursula Le Guin’s Lavinia and silence as classical reception
dc.contributor.author | Hauser, E | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2023-08-30T12:41:24Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2024-01-31 | |
dc.date.updated | 2023-08-30T10:51:16Z | |
dc.description.abstract | This article explores the power of silence in the feminist recovery of classical women and texts to open up engaged spaces for women’s creative reworkings, taking as a case study Lavinia and her reception in Ursula Le Guin’s 2008 novel of the same name. By re-evaluating silence in dialogue with feminist scholarship, I argue that Le Guin is able to bring a different angle to the reception of classical literary women, focusing on the gaps and spaces in Lavinia’s character that provide a medium for engagement with the Vergilian text. The open, interpretative space of silence thus becomes a locus in which Le Guin can transform Vergil’s passive personification of Lavinia into a generative vision of literature and reception — so that, ultimately, Lavinia is able to absorb and embody the poem within herself. | en_GB |
dc.identifier.citation | Published online 31 January 2024 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1093/crj/clae001 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10871/133895 | |
dc.identifier | ORCID: 0000-0001-5139-2671 (Hauser, Emily) | |
dc.language.iso | en | en_GB |
dc.publisher | Oxford University Press | en_GB |
dc.rights | © The Author(s) 2024. Published by Oxford University Press. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. | |
dc.title | ‘Back from the silence with something to say’: Ursula Le Guin’s Lavinia and silence as classical reception | en_GB |
dc.type | Article | en_GB |
dc.date.available | 2023-08-30T12:41:24Z | |
dc.identifier.issn | 1759-5134 | |
dc.description | This is the final version. Available on open access from Oxford University Press via the DOI in this record | en_GB |
dc.identifier.eissn | 1759-5142 | |
dc.identifier.journal | Classical Receptions Journal | en_GB |
dc.rights.uri | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | en_GB |
dcterms.dateAccepted | 2023-08-22 | |
dcterms.dateSubmitted | 2022-12-13 | |
rioxxterms.version | VoR | en_GB |
rioxxterms.type | Journal Article/Review | en_GB |
refterms.dateFCD | 2023-08-30T10:51:39Z | |
refterms.versionFCD | AM | |
refterms.dateFOA | 2024-03-19T11:43:48Z | |
refterms.panel | D | en_GB |
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