Description: Myths of the Underworld in Contemporary Culture : The Backward Gaze, Hardcover by Fletcher, Judith, ISBN 0198767099, ISBN-13 9780198767091, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US 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-imaginings of the ancient descent myth. The volume begins with a detailed overview of the use of the myth by ancient authors such as Homer, Aristophanes, Vergil, and Ovid, before exploring the ways in which the narrative of a return trip to Hades by Odysseus, Aeneas, Orpheus, and Persephone can be manipulated by contemporary storytellers to fit themes of social marginality and alterity, postmodern rebellion, the position of female authors in the literary canon, and the dislocation endured by refugees, exiles, and diasporic populations. It also argues that citations of classical underworld stories can disrupt and challenge the literary canon by using media - such0as comic books, children's culture, or rock music - not conventionally associated with high culture.
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Book Title: Myths of the Underworld in Contemporary Culture : The Backward Ga
Number of Pages: 256 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Myths of the Underworld in Contemporary Culture : the Backward Gaze
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Subject: History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical
Publication Year: 2019
Item Height: 0.7 in
Item Weight: 15 Oz
Type: Textbook
Subject Area: Philosophy
Author: Judith Fletcher
Item Length: 8.7 in
Item Width: 5.7 in
Series: Classical Presences Ser.
Format: Hardcover
