Second part of a two-section article that analyses the extensive reinterpretation of Daphne’s myth in the opera Daphne (1938) by composer Richard Strauss and librettist Joseph Gregor, who used the version of the myth by Parthenius of Nicaea better than that by Ovid. Its ultimate aim is to examine Strauss’ statement about his new opera’s meaning and if the authors managed to achieve their objective by means of manipulating the mythical storyline.
{"title":"De niña a laurel (o de cómo convertirse en árbol): Daphne de Richard Strauss y Joseph Gregor","authors":"Manuel Antonio Díaz Gito","doi":"10.5209/AMAL.54525","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5209/AMAL.54525","url":null,"abstract":"Second part of a two-section article that analyses the extensive reinterpretation of Daphne’s myth in the opera Daphne (1938) by composer Richard Strauss and librettist Joseph Gregor, who used the version of the myth by Parthenius of Nicaea better than that by Ovid. Its ultimate aim is to examine Strauss’ statement about his new opera’s meaning and if the authors managed to achieve their objective by means of manipulating the mythical storyline.","PeriodicalId":40412,"journal":{"name":"Amaltea-Revista de MitocrItica","volume":"9 1","pages":"65-81"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2017-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.5209/AMAL.54525","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47694308","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Patricia A. Johnson, Attilio Mastrocinque, Sophia Papaioannou (Eds.). “Animals in Greek and Roman Religion and Myth”.","authors":"A. Vidal","doi":"10.5209/AMAL.57185","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5209/AMAL.57185","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40412,"journal":{"name":"Amaltea-Revista de MitocrItica","volume":"9 1","pages":"99-103"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2017-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.5209/AMAL.57185","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43538720","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Inmaculada López Calahorro. “Gabriel García Márquez. El discurso de la debilidad. Cuatro lecturas desde el mundo clásico”.","authors":"Carmen Marta Márquez García","doi":"10.5209/AMAL.57183","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5209/AMAL.57183","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40412,"journal":{"name":"Amaltea-Revista de MitocrItica","volume":"9 1","pages":"91-93"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2017-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.5209/AMAL.57183","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48902355","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"José Manuel Losada (Ed.). “Mitos de hoy. Ensayos de mitocrítica cultural”","authors":"C. González","doi":"10.5209/AMAL.57182","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5209/AMAL.57182","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40412,"journal":{"name":"Amaltea-Revista de MitocrItica","volume":"9 1","pages":"87-89"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2017-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.5209/AMAL.57182","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47301934","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
In this article, I thoroughly analyse the postmodern refiguration of the Narcissus myth in the film Yo soy otro (2008), directed by Colombian filmmaker Oscar Campo. From a broad philosophical perspective informed by contemporary epistemologies on the post-metaphysical subject, I aim to demonstrate that the film appropriates the Greek ephebe’s tragic story and puts it in dialogue with the existential concerns that determine the contemporary self, acting as the causal factors behind its self-absorption, radical individualism, extreme liquidity, lack of transcendental referents, and self-destructive drives.
{"title":"The Narcissus Myth in Óscar Campo’s Yo soy otro (2008): From the Mystery of Being to (Self-)Terrorist Violence","authors":"Mayron Estefan Cantillo Lucuara","doi":"10.5209/AMAL.55048","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5209/AMAL.55048","url":null,"abstract":"In this article, I thoroughly analyse the postmodern refiguration of the Narcissus myth in the film Yo soy otro (2008), directed by Colombian filmmaker Oscar Campo. From a broad philosophical perspective informed by contemporary epistemologies on the post-metaphysical subject, I aim to demonstrate that the film appropriates the Greek ephebe’s tragic story and puts it in dialogue with the existential concerns that determine the contemporary self, acting as the causal factors behind its self-absorption, radical individualism, extreme liquidity, lack of transcendental referents, and self-destructive drives.","PeriodicalId":40412,"journal":{"name":"Amaltea-Revista de MitocrItica","volume":"9 1","pages":"25-41"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2017-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.5209/AMAL.55048","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41518234","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This three-page article in three languages (English, Spanish and French, each one page) is a scientific Editorial of Amaltea, Journal of Mythcriticism’s #9 Issue (Oct. 2017), devoted to “Myth and Cinema in the 21st Century.
{"title":"Editorial: Mito y cine en el siglo 21","authors":"José Manuel Losada Goya","doi":"10.5209/amal.57200","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5209/amal.57200","url":null,"abstract":"This three-page article in three languages (English, Spanish and French, each one page) is a scientific Editorial of Amaltea, Journal of Mythcriticism’s #9 Issue (Oct. 2017), devoted to “Myth and Cinema in the 21st Century.","PeriodicalId":40412,"journal":{"name":"Amaltea-Revista de MitocrItica","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2017-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.5209/amal.57200","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70668231","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Imagen de portada: Máscara para Ariadne (2016)","authors":"M. R. Gómez","doi":"10.5209/AMAL.53696","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5209/AMAL.53696","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40412,"journal":{"name":"Amaltea-Revista de MitocrItica","volume":"8 1","pages":"51-51"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2016-10-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70668223","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"\"Nuevas formas del mito. Una metodología interdisciplinar\". Estudios reunidos y presentados por José Manuel Losada Goya","authors":"Luis Alberto Pérez Amezcua","doi":"10.5209/AMAL.53424","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5209/AMAL.53424","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40412,"journal":{"name":"Amaltea-Revista de MitocrItica","volume":"8 1","pages":"69-74"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2016-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.5209/AMAL.53424","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70668630","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Zupančič, Metka (sous la dir. de). \"La Mythocritique contemporaine au féminin . Dialogue entre théorie et pratique\"","authors":"Hélène Rufat","doi":"10.5209/AMAL.53418","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5209/AMAL.53418","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40412,"journal":{"name":"Amaltea-Revista de MitocrItica","volume":"8 1","pages":"75-78"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2016-09-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.5209/AMAL.53418","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70668276","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Insausti, Gabriel. \"Tierra de nadie: la literatura inglesa y la Gran Guerra\"","authors":"Adrián García Vidal","doi":"10.5209/AMAL.53415","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5209/AMAL.53415","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40412,"journal":{"name":"Amaltea-Revista de MitocrItica","volume":"8 1","pages":"45-49"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2016-09-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.5209/AMAL.53415","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70668595","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}