Marianthe Colakis (essay date winter 1989)
SOURCE: Colakis, Marianthe. “The House of Atreus Myth in the Seventies and Eighties: David Rabe's The Orphan and Joyce Carol Oates's Angel of Light.” Classical and Modern Literature: A Quarterly 9, no. 2 (winter 1989): 125-30.
[In the following essay, Colakis compares the use of the House of Atreus myth in Rabe's The Orphan and Joyce Carol Oates's novel Angel of Light.]
Even in the last two decades, when Greek myths are no longer a part of general knowledge, they have not lost...
Source: Contemporary Literary Criticism, ©2005 Gale Cengage. All Rights Reserved. Full copyright.
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