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Myth and Subversion in the Contemporary Novel

Edited By: José Manuel Losada Goya, Marta Guirao Ochoa

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This bilingual work identifies and explains the subversive rewriting of ancient, medieval, and modern myths in contemporary novels. Analyses cover classical (Oedipus), biblical (the Golem), and modern (Faust) myths in fiction, art, and cinema.

This bilingual work identifies and explains the subversive rewriting of ancient, medieval and modern myths in contemporary novels. The book opens with two theoretical essays…
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This bilingual work identifies and explains the subversive rewriting of ancient, medieval and modern myths in contemporary novels.

The book opens with two theoretical essays on the subject of subversive tendencies and myth reinvention in the contemporary novel. From there, it moves on to the analysis of essential texts. Firstly, classical myths in works by authors such as André Gide, Thomas Pynchon, Julio Cortázar, Italo Calvino or Christa Wolf (for instance, Theseus, Oedipus or Medea) are discussed. Then, myths of biblical origin – such as the Flood or the Golem – are revisited in the work of Giorgio Bassani, Julian Barnes and Cynthia Ozick. A further section is concerned with the place of modern myths (Faust, the ghost, Ophelia…) in the fiction of Günter Grass, Paul Auster, or Clara Janés. The contributors have also delved into the relationship between myth and art – especially in the discourse of contemporary advertising, painting and cinema – and myth’s intercultural dimensions: hybridity in the Latin American novels of Augusto Roa Bastos and Carlos Fuentes, and in the Hindu-themed novels of Bharati Mukherjee.

This volume emerges from the careful selection of 37 essays out of over 200 which were put forward by outstanding scholars from 25 different countries for the Madrid International Conference on Myth and Subversion (March 2011).

Este volumen bilingüe identifica y explica la práctica subversiva aplicada a los mitos antiguos, medievales y modernos en la novela contemporánea.

Abren el libro dos estudios teóricos sobre la tendencia subversiva y la reinvención de mitos en la actualidad. Prosigue el análisis de diversos textos de primera importancia. En primer lugar se revisan los mitos clásicos en autores como André Gide, Thomas Pynchon, Julio Cortázar, Italo Calvino o Christa Wolf (p. ej., Teseo, Edipo, Medea). En segundo lugar, la reescritura de los mitos bíblicos según Giorgio Bassani, Julian Barnes o Cynthia Ozick (p. ej., el diluvio o el Golem). En tercer lugar, mitos modernos en la ficción de Günter Grass, Paul Auster o Clara Janés (p. ej., Fausto, el fantasma, Ofelia). El volumen presta igualmente atención a las relaciones entre mito y arte (su recurrencia en la publicidad, la pintura y el cine contemporáneos) y a la vertiente intercultural de los mitos: el mestizaje en la novela latinoamericana de Augusto Roa Bastos y Carlos Fuentes, o en la de temática hindú de Bharati Mukherjee.

La compilación resulta de una exquisita selección de 37 textos entre los más de 200 propuestos para el Congreso Internacional Mito y Subversión (Madrid, marzo de 2011) por investigadores de prestigio procedentes de 25 países.

José Manuel Losada Goya (www.josemanuellosada.es) studied at the Sorbonne, Harvard, Montreal and Oxford. He is Professor in French and Comparative Literature at Complutense University, Spain. Among his books, the Bibliography of the Myth of Don Juan (1997) has been highly acclaimed. More recently, Mito y mundo contemporáneo (2010) received the 2011 Giovi Città di Salerno International Award. He is Editor of Amaltea. Journal of Myth Criticism (http://www.ucm.es/info/amaltea/revista/eng/journal.html) and President of Asteria. International Association of Myth Criticism.

Marta Guirao Ochoa studied at University College London and Warwick University. She is currently a lecturer in Translation at CES Felipe II, Complutense University, Spain. She has published essays on translation in TRANS (1996, 1998) and El reverso del tapiz (2008), and on myth criticism in Mito y mundo contemporáneo (2010). Her edited books include Últimas tendencias en Traducción e Interpretación (2011).

Miquel POMAR AMER, Peter ARNDS, Juan HERRERO CECILIA, Alfonso MUÑOZ CORCUERA, Grégory COSTE, Paula JUANPERE DUÑÓ, Geneviève FABRY, Ana GONZÁLEZ-RIVAS FERNÁNDEZ, Vania MAIRE FIVAZ, Elizabeth SÁNCHEZ GARAY, Véronique GÉLY, Folke GERNERT, Laurence GOUAUX, Félix MARTÍN GUTIÉRREZ, Drina HOCEVAR, Benedikts KALNAČS, Nikos KOSKINAS, Nicola LEPORINI, Sonia VILLEGAS LÓPEZ, Delio DE MARTINO, Francesco DE MARTINO, Christian MILAT, Aagje MONBALLIEU, Esther BAUTISTA NARANJO, Sophie NEZRI-DUFOUR, Marta GUIRAO OCHOA, Emilie PÉNEAU, Carla PERUGINI, Carmen LARA RALLO, Aurélie RENAULT, Peter Schuhman, Robert Segal, Rosalie SINOPOULOU, Anne Marie STACHURA, Sharon Keefe UGALDE, Rosa FERNÁNDEZ URTASUN, Souhir ZEKRI

Hardback

  • ISBN: 1-4438-3746-6
  • ISBN13: 978-1-4438-3746-0
  • Date of Publication: 2012-05-15

Ebook

  • ISBN: 1-4438-3815-2
  • ISBN13: 978-1-4438-3815-3
  • Date of Publication: 2012-05-15

Subject Codes:

  • BIC: DSK, JFHF, AF
  • THEMA: DSK, JBGB, AF
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