The voice that Drowns Pygmalion: Classical Myth under Madeline Miller's Revisionism
Abstract
The present study focuses on the short story Galatea (2013) by Madeline Miller, a rewriting of the myth of Pygmalion as told by Ovid in his Metamorphoses. The study has aimed to analyze, from the perspective of Classical Reception studies, the strategies followed by the author to subvert the myth, which allows us to reflect on her supposed revisionist approach ( Ostriker 1982). From the analysis, it can be inferred that the myth is used as a vindicating tool, an object of resistance through which it is possible to reexamine both Classical Antiquity—which has played a relevant role in the construction and legitimation of patriarchal discourse—as well as our present.
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