Ancient Greek myth in world fiction since 1989

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Ancient Greek myth in world fiction since 1989

edited by Justine McConnell and Edith Hall

(Bloomsbury studies in classical reception)(Classical studies)

Bloomsbury Academic, 2016

  • : hard
  • : pbk.

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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  • From anthropophagy to allegory and back : a study of classical myth and the Brazilian novel / Patrice Rankine
  • Ibrahim al-Koni's Lost oasis as Atlantis and his demon as Typhon / William M. Hutchins
  • Greek myth and mythmaking in Witi Ihimaera's The Matriarch (1986) and The Dream Swimmer / Simon Perris
  • War, religion and tragedy: the revolt of the muckers in Luiz Antonio de Assis Brasil's Videiras de Cristal / Sofia Frade
  • Translating myths, translating fictions / Lorna Hardwick
  • Echoes of ancient Greek myths in Murakami Haruki's novels and in other works of contemporary Japanese literature / Giorgio Amitrano
  • "It's all in the game" : Greek myth and The Wire / Adam Ganz
  • Writing a new Irish odyssey : Theresa Kishkan's A man in a Distant Field / Fiona Macintosh
  • The minotaur on the Russian internet : Viktor Pelevin's Helmet of Horror / Anna Ljunggren
  • Diagnosis : overdose status : critical odysseys in Bernhard Schlink's Die Heimkehr / Sebastian Matzner
  • Narcissus and the Furies : myth and docufiction in Jonathan Littell's The Kindly Ones / Edith Hall
  • Philhellenic imperialism and the invention of the classical past: twenty-first century re-imaginings of Odysseus in the Greek war for independence / Efrossini Spentzou
  • The "Poem of force" in Australia : David Malouf, Ransom and Chloe Hooper, The Tall Man / Margaret Reynolds
  • Young female heroes from Sophocles to the twenty-first century / Helen Eastman
  • Generation Telemachus : Dinaw Mengestu's How to Read the Air / Justine McConnell

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