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  • Miner, Valerie. “Fictions and Frictions.” <i>The Women's Review of Books</i>, vol. 23, no. 5, 2006, pp. 20–21. <i>JSTOR</i>, www.jstor.org/stable/4024613. Accessed 16 Aug. 2021.

  • Staels, Hilde. “‘The Penelopiad’ and ‘Weight’. Contemporary Parodic and Burlesque Transformations of Classical Myths.” <i>College Literature</i>, vol. 36, no. 4, 2009, pp. 100–118. <i>JSTOR</i>, www.jstor.org/stable/20642058. Accessed 16 Aug. 2021.

  • Suzuki, Mihoko. “Rewriting the ‘Odyssey’ in the Twenty-First Century: Mary Zimmerman's ‘Odyssey’ and Margaret Atwood's ‘Penelopiad.’” <i>College Literature</i>, vol. 34, no. 2, 2007, pp. 263–278. <i>JSTOR</i>, www.jstor.org/stable/25115430. Accessed 16 Aug. 2021.

  • Ingersoll, Earl G. "Flirting with Tragedy: Margaret Atwood's the Penelopiad, and the Play of the Text." Intertexts 12.1 (2008): 111,128,172. ProQuest. 16 Aug. 2021 .

  • Atwood, Margaret. The Penelopiad: The Myth of Penelope and Odysseus. Vintage Canada, 2010.

  • Gilbert, Sophie. "The Challenge of Margaret Atwood," The Atlantic, September 5, 2019.

  • "Penelope: From Homeric Greece to the Modern Day." January 10, 2022. <https://womeninantiquity.wordpress.com/2018/11/13/penelope/>.
  • Emily Wilson. "A Translator’s Reckoning With the Women of the Odyssey." The New Yorker. December 8, 2017. January 10, 2022. <https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/a-translators-reckoning-with-the-women-of-the-odyssey>.
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