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- Title
Penelope weaving the (F)e-mail: texting and sexting.
- Authors
KOLOVOU, PENELOPE-FOTEINI
- Abstract
In the advent of new media technologies, the Greek poet Koula Adaloglou rewrites the Penelopean myth, engaging among other things a laptop instead of a loom. Penelope may this way text her "Messages to Odysseus". Although it remains open whether each message is sent, discarded or saved as a draft, Penelope reveals the aesthetics and politics of her contemporary self through a texting project. Having woven different text(u)s1 on the loom, on music scores, on canvas, on stage, and other media during an ongoing post-Homeric tradition, by texting her thoughts to the absent addressee Penelope demonstrates part of the intermedial reproducibility of her myth, while she implicitly communicates her self within a sexting activity. This article explores a (ré)écriture féminine of a classical myth which once again returns updated - that is remediated in terms of postmodern communicational schemes - in contemporary Greek literature.
- Subjects
MYTH in literature; PENELOPE (Greek mythology); ODYSSEUS, King of Ithaca (Mythological character); AESTHETICS in literature; SEXTING
- Publication
Journal of Comparative Literature & Aesthetics, 2017, Vol 40, Issue 2, p135
- ISSN
0252-8169
- Publication type
Article