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Article: Re-creating Cassandra and Anna Karenina: Unheard Voices in Christa Wolf's 'Cassandra' and Aritha van Herk's 'Places Far from Ellesmere.'
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- CRITIQUE: Studies in Contemporary Fiction
- Article date:
- June 22, 1995
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One of the main concerns of feminist critics has been the composition of the literary canon and the place of women writers and characters in this canon. In her essay "Treason Our Text: Feminist Challenges to the Literary Canon," Lillian S. Robinson refers to the list of Great Books in courses on the Western humanistic tradition and notes that the works included often contain no women authors, but "certain monumental female images: Helen, Penelope, and Clytemnestra, Beatrice and the Dark Lady of the Sonnets, Berenice, Cunegonde, and Margarete" (107). Given the fact that much of this canonized literature consists of writing by men, or presents female characters created by ...
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