The Genealogy of the Hero: A Source-study of “The Albanian Virgin” by Alice Munro

This essay investigates some of the wealth and the workings of Alice Munro’s explicit and secret intertexts to propose the hypothesis that the origin of her Albanian female hero can be traced all the way back to the character of Hero, a female priestess dedicated to Aphrodite who broke her vow of ch...

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Auteur principal: Ventura, Héliane
Format: Article ou chapitre numérique
Langue:Anglais
Publié: Journal of the Short Story in English 2024
Accès en ligne:Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM

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