Jane Smiley's "A Thousand Acres": A Feminist Revision of "King Lear"
Jane Smiley retells the tale of “King Lear” through the perspective of one of the evil sisters, in her novel “A Thousand Acres”. While the literary canon places William Shakespeare and his plays at the top of the list, I disagree that the canon should denote what is considered “classic” and what wou...
Main Author: | Lombardic, Diana |
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Format: | Others |
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FIU Digital Commons
2014
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Online Access: | http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/1547 http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2639&context=etd |
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