Women Re-Creating Classics by Emily Hauser, Helena Taylor - 9781350445079

Women Re-Creating ClassicsContemporary Voices\nAuthor(s): Emily Hauser, Helena Taylor\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, United Kingdom\nImprint: Bloomsbury Academic\nISBN-13: 9781350445079, 978-1350445079\nSynopsis\nIn the last few years, there has been a major and unmissable surge in womens retellings and re-creations of ancient myths and texts that has put womens re-creations of Classics centre-stage. Drawing together an interdisciplinary range of creative and scholarly voices, this volume asks why classical creative retellings by women are so popular nowand considers what creativity can do to foster new ways of thinking and writing about Classics, thus blurring the boundary between the creative and the critical. Contributors engage with debates on how to make Classics more accessible through the medium of creative works, so that it is not just a discipline for the select few.\n\nThis second volume in a two-volume set brings together original creative work by.