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BL
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711803
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b533992
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| Main Entry
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Cox, Fiona.
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| Title & Author
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Sibylline sisters : : Virgil's presence in contemporary women's writing /\ Fiona Cox
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| Publication Statement
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Oxford ;New York :: Oxford University Press,, 2011
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| Series Statement
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Classical presences
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| Page. NO
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1 online resource (xi, 284 pages)
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| ISBN
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0191618217 (electronic bk.)
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: 9780191618215 (electronic bk.)
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0199582963
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9780199582969
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Includes bibliographical references (pages [271]-279) and index
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| Contents
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Virgil in contemporary women's poetry -- Ruth Fainlight -- Eavan Boland -- Michèle Roberts -- Margaret Drabble -- A.S. Byatt -- Christa Wolf -- Monique Wittig -- Joyce Carol Oates -- Janet Lembke -- Ursula Le Guin
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| Abstract
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Through an analysis of Virgil's presence in the work of contemporary women writers from North America, Britain, Ireland and continental Europe, this book identifies a new Virgil: one who speaks in female tones of the anxieties, exclusions pleasures and threats of the contemporary world
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| Subject
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Women authors-- 20th century.
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| Subject
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Women authors-- 21st century.
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| LC Classification
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PA6825.C7325 2011eb
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| Added Entry
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Ohio Library and Information Network.
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