Myth and subversion in the contemporary novel / edited by Jose Manuel Losada Goya and Marta Guirao Ochoa.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Losada-Goya, José-Manuel.

Guirao Ochoa, Marta.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fiction--20th century--History and criticism--Congresses.

Fiction.

Fiction--21st century--History and criticism--Congresses.

Myth in literature--Congresses.

Myth in literature.

Symbolic inversion--Congresses.

Symbolic inversion.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (539 p.)

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This bilingual work aims to identify and explain 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 authors such as André Gide, Thomas Pynchon, Julio Cortázar, Italo Calvino or Christa Wolf (for instance Theseus, Oedipus or Medea) are discus...

Contents:

TABLE OF CONTENTS; LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; PREFACE; PREFACIO; PART I; CHAPTER ONE; LA TRÍADA SUBVERSIVA; CHAPTER TWO; PART II; CHAPTER THREE; CHAPTER FOUR; CHAPTER FIVE; CHAPTER SIX; CHAPTER SEVEN; PART III; CHAPTER EIGHT; CHAPTER NINE; CHAPTER TEN; CHAPTER ELEVEN; PART IV; CHAPTER TWELVE; CHAPTER THIRTEEN; CHAPTER FOURTEEN; CHAPTER FIFTEEN; CHAPTER SIXTEEN; CHAPTER SEVENTEEN; CHAPTER EIGHTEEN; CHAPTER NINETEEN; CHAPTER TWENTY; CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE; CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO; PART V; CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE; CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR; CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE; CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX; PART VI; CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN

CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHTCHAPTER TWENTY-NINE; CHAPTER THIRTY; CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE; PART VII; CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO; CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE; CHAPTER THIRTY-FOUR; PART VIII; CHAPTER THIRTY-FIVE; CHAPTER THIRTY-SIX; CHAPTER THIRTY-SEVEN; CONTRIBUTORS; INDEX

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

1-4438-3815-2

OCLC:

823720417