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

• Superior document: Bloomsbury studies in classical reception
• TeilnehmendeR: McConnell, Justine,; Hall, Edith, 1959-
• Place / Publishing House: London : Bloomsbury Academic , 2016.
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Bloomsbury studies in classical reception.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (289 pages)
• Notes: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

"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 t...

Table of 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 / 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, Ralph Ellison, and Homer / Justine McConnell
• Acknowledgements
• List of Contributors
• Introduction, Justine McConnell
• 1 From Anthropophagy to Allegory and Back: A Study of
• Classical Myth and the Brazilian Novel, Patrice Rankine
• 2 Ibrahim Al-Koni's Lost Oasis as Atlantis and His Demon as
• Typhon, William M. Hutchins
• 3 Greek Myth and Mythmaking in Witi Ihimaera's The Matriarch
• and The Dream Swimmer, Simon Perris
• 4 War, Religion and Tragedy: The Revolt of the Muckers in
• Luiz Antonio de Assis Brasil's Videiras de Cristal,
• Sofia Frade
• 5 Translating Myths, Translating Fictions, Lorna Hardwick
• 6 Echoes of Ancient Greek Myths in Murakami Haruki's
• novels and in Other Works of Contemporary Japanese
• Literature, Giorgio Amitrano
• 7 'It's All in the Game': Greek Myth and The Wire, Adam Ganz
• 8 Writing a New Irish Odyssey: Theresa Kishkan's A Man in
• a Distant Field, Fiona Macintosh
• 9 The Minotaur on the Russian Internet: Viktor Pelevin's
• Helmet of Horror, Anna Ljunggren
• 10 Diagnosis: Overdose - Status: Critical. Odysseys in
• Bernhard Schlink's Die Heimkehr, Sebastian Matzner
• 11 Narcissus and the Furies: Myth and Docufiction in
• Jonathan Littell's The Kindly Ones, Edith Hall
• 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
• 13 The 'Poem of Force' in Australia: David Malouf, Ransom and Chloe
• Hooper, The Tall Man, Margaret Reynolds
• 14 Young Female Heroes from Sophocles to the Twenty-First
• Century, Helen Eastman
• 15 Generation Telemachus: Dinaw Mengestu's How to Read
• the Air, Justine McConnell