Ancient Greek Myth in World Fiction since 1989

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Ancient Greek Myth in World Fiction since 1989 explores the diverse ways that contemporary world fiction has engaged with ancient Greek myth. Whether as a framing device, or a filter, or via resonances and parallels, Greek myth has proven fruitful for many writers of fiction since the end of the Cold War. This volume examines the varied ways that writers from around the world have turned to classical antiquity to articulate their own contemporary concerns.

Featuring contributions by an international group of scholars from a number of disciplines, the volume offers a cutting-edge, interdisciplinary approach to contemporary literature from around the world. Analysing a range of significant authors and works, not usually brought together in one place, the book introduces readers to some less-familiar fiction, while demonstrating the central place that classical literature can claim in the global literary curriculum of the third millennium. The modern fiction covered is as varied as the acclaimed North American television series The Wire, contemporary Arab fiction, the Japanese novels of Haruki Murakami and the works of New Zealand's foremost Maori writer, Witi Ihimaera.

Author(s): Justine McConnell, Edith Hall
Series: Bloomsbury Studies in Classical Reception
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Year: 2016

Language: English
Pages: 288
City: London

Cover page
Halftitle page
Series page
Title page
Copyright page
Contents
Acknowledgements
Contributors
Introduction Justine McConnell
Bibliography
1 From Anthropophagy to Allegory and Back: A Study of Classical Myth and the Brazilian Novel Patrice Rankine
Historical Background: The Brazilian Military Dictatorship and 1989
Classical Myth as Allegory for Cultural Expression in Brazilian Literature before 1989: The Centaur in the Garden
Brazilian Novels after 1989: Hotel Atlantico (1989)
The War of the Saints (1993)
The Discovery of America by the Turks (1994)
Bibliography
2 Ibrahim Al-Koni’s Lost Oasis as Atlantis and His Demon as Typhon William M. Hutchins
Tanit as Athena
Waw as Atlantis
The Sahara as a Labyrinth
Wantahet as Typhon
Ibrahim al-Koni as Odysseus/Ulysses
Conclusion
Bibliography
3 Greek Myth and Mythmaking in Witi Ihimaera’s The Matriarch (1986) and The Dream Swimmer (1997) Simon Perris
Bibliography
4 War, Religion and Tragedy: The Revolt of the Muckers in Luiz Antonio de Assis Brasil’s Videiras de Cristal Sofia Frade
Bibliography
5 Translating Myths, Translating Fictions Lorna Hardwick
Crisis, Critical Distance and Transition Literature
Zakes Mda, Ways of Dying (1995)
Christa Wolf, Medea: Stimmen (1986)
Wolf ’s Engagement with Greek Myth – from Cassandra to Medea
Text, Myth and Variation in Antiquity and in Wolf
Coda
Bibliography
6 Echoes of Ancient Greek Myths in Murakami Haruki’s novels and in Other Works of Contemporary Japanese Literature Giorgio Amitrano
Bibliography
7 ‘It’s All in the Game’: Greek Myth and The Wire Adam Ganz
Bibliography
8 Writing a New Irish Odyssey: Theresa Kishkan’s A Man in a Distant Field Fiona Macintosh
Translating the Odyssey
The Irish Literary Revival and Comparatism
An Irish Odyssey
Bibliography
9 The Minotaur on the Russian Internet: Victor Pelevin’s Helmet of Horror Anna Ljunggren
Topos
Dematerialized Characters
The Helmet of the Minotaur
Helmet, Mask and Internet-Carnival
Solving the Puzzle: The Carnival Group Instead of the Character
Bibliography
10 Diagnosis: Overdose. Status: Critical. Odysseys in Bernhard Schlink’s Die Heimkehr Sebastian Matzner
The Inset Narrative
The Inset Political Theory of de Baur
The Narrative: Plot Progression Through Role Reversals
The Narrator: Self-stylization
Framing Intrafictional Interpretation: Personal Relationships and National History
Bibliography
11 Narcissus and the Furies: Myth and Docufiction in Jonathan Littell’s The Kindly Ones Edith Hall
Bibliography
12 Philhellenic Imperialism and the Invention of the Classical Past: Twenty-first Century Re-imaginings of Odysseus in the Greek War for Independence Efrossini Spentzou
Bibliography
13 The ‘Poem of Force’ in Australia: David Malouf, Ransom and Chloe Hooper, The Tall Man Margaret Reynolds
Episode from an Early War
Ransom
The Poem of Force
The Tall Man
Bibliography
14 Young Female Heroes from Sophocles to the Twenty-First Century Helen Eastman
Bibliography
15 Generation Telemachus: Dinaw Mengestu’s How to Read the Air Justine McConnell
Bibliography
Notes
Index