| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 523 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
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 |
| 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 .. |
| Notes |
"These essays are a selection from over two hundred presented by scholars from 25 countries for the international conference on "Myth and subversion in the contemporary novel" which took place at the Universidade Complutense de Madrid (March 9-11, 2011)"--Page xiii |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English and Spanish, with abstracts in English and Spanish |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism -- Congresses
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Fiction -- 21st century -- History and criticism -- Congresses
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Myth in literature -- Congresses
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Symbolic inversion -- Congresses
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Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers.
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Folklore, myths & legends.
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Art forms.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary.
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Fiction
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Myth in literature
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Symbolic inversion
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Conference papers and proceedings
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Losada-Goya, José-Manuel, editor
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Guirao Ochoa, Marta, editor
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| ISBN |
1443838152 |
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9781443838153 |
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