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"Myths of the Underworld in Contemporary Culture: The Backward Gaze' examines a series of twentieth and twenty-first century fictional works that adapt Greco-Roman myths of the catabasis, the heroic journey to the underworld. Covering a range of genres - including novels, comics, and child...
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Oxford University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Oxford, UK : |
| Publication Dates: | 2019. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Edition: | First edition. |
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"Myths of the Underworld in Contemporary Culture: The Backward Gaze' examines a series of twentieth and twenty-first century fictional works that adapt Greco-Roman myths of the catabasis, the heroic journey to the underworld. Covering a range of genres - including novels, comics, and children's culture, by authors such as Elena Ferrante, Salman Rushdie, Neil Gaiman, A. S. Byatt, Toni Morrison, and Anne Patchett - it reveals how an enduring fascination with life after death, and fantasies of accessing the world of the dead while we are still alive, manifest themselves in myriad and varied re- |
| Carrier Form: | viii, 224 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [205]-218) and index. |
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9780198767091 (hardback) : 0198767099 (hardback) |
| Index Number: | PN56 |
| CLC: | I106 |
| Call Number: | I106/F613 |
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Source Texts. Odyssean Nekyia -- Heracles and Dionysus -- Descent of Aeneas -- Orpheus and Eurydice -- Persephone -- Elements of the underworld narrative -- Ghost of the Father : Spirits of the Postmodern. Finding the way in John Barth's underworld -- Anxiety of influence in Neil Gaiman's Underworlds -- Engendering the Haunted Text. Mutations and hauntings : A.S. Byatt's Angels and insects -- Mutations : "Morpho Eugenia" -- Hauntings : "The conjugal angel" -- Persephone interrupted : Coraline -- Doll's descent : Searching for Persephone in |