Apollo flies, and Daphne holds the chase: The novelistic rewriting of Ovid (and Shakespeare) in Austen's Emma
If, as critics have noted, Austen’s Emma is a re-imaging of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, then it is also in dialog with Ovid’s Metamorphoses, one of the main subtexts in Shakespeare’s comedy. The novel can indeed be read as an inversion of the Apollo and Daphne tale, as the heroine assumes in successi...
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School of English, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
2020-12-01
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| Series: | Ex-centric Narratives: Journal of Anglophone Literature, Culture and Media |
| Online Access: | http://ejournals.lib.auth.gr/ExCentric/article/view/7773 |