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Altın M.
Ankara Üniversitesi Dil ve Tarih-Coğrafya Fakültesi Dergisi, cilt.60, sa.1, ss.145-157, 2020 (Hakemli Dergi)
Özet
This
article
analyses
the
American
novelist
Madeline
Miller's
latest
work
Circe
through
the
lens
of
revisionist
mythmaking
proposed
and
dened
by
Alicia
Ostriker.
Revisionist
mythmaking
aims
at
challenging
and
debunking
the
gender
stereotypes
embedded
in
myths
and
fairy
tales
by
revising
and
retelling
them
from
a
female
perspective.
In
Circe,
Miller
revisits
the
myth
of
Circe,
a
renowned
sorceress
in
Greek
mythology
who
is
reputed
to
turn
sailors
into
swine
by
magic.
Miller
uses
the
traditional
image
of
Circe
as
a
witch,
but
she
makes
marked
changes
in
the
nature
of
this
ancient
image.
She
gives
voice
to
the
long-
silenced
Circe
and
lets
her
tell
her
own
story
and
recount
her
own
experiences.
In
Miller's
book,
contrary
to
the
ancient
stories
and
mythological
accounts
concerning
the
story
of
Circe,
she
is
portrayed
as
a
multifaced
and
evolving
character
who
displays
a
vast
array
of
emotions
from
jealousy,
anger,
despair,
sorrow
to
pity,
love
and
even
postpartum
depression.
Miller
rewrites
and
re-evaluates
the
image
of
Circe
so
as
to
make
a
correction
of
its
representation,
and
thus,
to
achieve
a
cultural
change.