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Mito Y Mundo Contemporaneo
434604Levante Editori - Bari. Hardcover. Good. THERE ARE NO TARIFFS OR CUSTOMS DUTIES ON BOOKS. This work written in Spanish explains 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 works by authors such as André Gide Thomas Pynchon Julio Cortázar Italo Calvino or Christa Wolf for instance Theseus Oedipus or Medea are discussed. Then myths of biblical origin – such as the Flood or the Golem – are revisited in the work of Giorgio Bassani Julian Barnes and Cynthia Ozick. A further section is concerned with the place of modern myths Faust the ghost Ophelia… in the fiction of Günter Grass Paul Auster or Clara Janés. The contributors have also delved into the relationship between myth and art – especially in the discourse of contemporary advertising pain Levante Editori - Bari hardcover
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