Research Catalog

Title

Ancient Greek myth in world fiction since 1989 / edited by Justine McConnell and Edith Hall.

Publication

• London : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2016.
• ©2016

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Details

Additional Authors

• McConnell, Justine
• Hall, Edith, 1959-

Description

x, 273 pages; 24 cm

Series Statement

Bloomsbury Studies in Classical Reception

Uniform Title

Bloomsbury studies in classical reception.

Subjects

• Mythology, Classical, in literature
• Literature, Modern > 21st century > Classical influences
• Literature, Modern > 20th century > Classical influences

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-267) and index.

Contents

Introduction / Justine McConnell -- 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 (1997) / Simon Perris -- War, religion and tragedy: the revolt of the muckers in Luiz Antonio de Assis Brasil's Videira 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.

Call Number

JFE 16-7328

ISBN

• 9781472579379
• 1472579372
• 9781472579386
• 1472579380

LCCN

• 2016016462
• 60002107400

OCLC

946254818

Title

Ancient Greek myth in world fiction since 1989 / edited by Justine McConnell and Edith Hall.

Publisher

London : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2016.

Copyright Date

©2016

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Bloomsbury Studies in Classical Reception

Bloomsbury studies in classical reception.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-267) and index.

Added Author

McConnell, Justine, editor.

Hall, Edith, 1959- editor.

Other Form:

Online version: Ancient Greek myth in world fiction since 1989 London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2016 9781472579409 (DLC) 2016017039

Other Standard Identifier

60002107400

Research Call Number

JFE 16-7328