‘By attributing personal nature and human characteristics onto the bear, Riley and the other Ginkgo poets engage with individuals ‘at a deeper and potentially more affective level’ than science…’
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In the Iliad’s expression of epic characteristics, does the text undermine or reinforce patriarchal ideologies in the oppression of female characters?
‘Helen has been labelled by patriarchal stereotyping as a woman who is good: angelic, gentle and submissive (Tyson 2015: 85). However, in the true eyes of patriarchy, Helen is not good. She is one of the stereotypical bad women…’
Scottish Crime Fiction: Intertextual Gothic Dualisms in Margaret Kirk’s Shadow Man
‘Kirk’s quote is an intertextual allusion to William McIlvanney’s crime novel, Laidlaw…’