Pub Date : 2015-06-22DOI: 10.5209/REV_AMAL.2015.V7.47697
G. Salas
Margaret Atwood’s novella The Penelopiad (2005) seemingly celebrates Penelope’s agency in opposition to Homer’s myth in The Odyssey . However, the twelve murdered maids steal the book to suggest the possibility of what Janice Raymond calls gyn/affection , a female bonding based on the logic of emotion that, in Atwood’s revision, verges on Kristevan abjection, the sinister and the fantastic, and serves a cathartic effect not only in the maids but also in the reader. This essay aims to question the generally accepted empowerment of Atwood’s Penelope and celebrates the murdered maids as the locus of emotion, where marginal aspects of gender and class merge to weave a powerful metaphorical tapestry of popular and traditionally feminized literary genres that, in plunging into and embracing the semiotic realm, ultimately solidify into an eclectic but compact alternative tradition of women’s writing and myth-making.
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Pub Date : 2015-06-22DOI: 10.5209/REV_AMAL.2015.V7.48140
Rebeca Gualberto Valverde
This article aims to reassess F. Scott Fitzgerald’s classic The Great Gatsby (1925), taking into consideration the myth-critical hypotheses of philosopher Rene Girard. Specifically, this essay will analyse the concepts of mimetic desire, resentment and reprisal violence as emotional components of myth, paying close attention to how the reinterpreted mythical pattern of the novel influences the depiction of such emotions as social traits of corruption. Finally, this article will challenge interpretations that have regarded Gatsby as a successful scapegoat-figure, examining instead how the mythical meanings and structures of the text stage an emotional crisis of frustrated desire and antagonism that ultimately offers no hope of communal restoration.
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Pub Date : 2015-06-22DOI: 10.5209/REV_AMAL.2015.V7.47672
Mariano Martín Rodríguez
Modern scientific world-view has undermined traditional myths, the functional survival of which seems to depend today in the West on a positivist justification. This would place them in the field of real History, through their study and revitalization by pseudoscientific disciplines such as the Atlantis and the ancient astronaut hypotheses. These have inspired new epic poems in (regular) verse that combine classic and/or biblical myths with a (pseudo)scientific modern world-view. For example, the critical rewriting of Noah’s myth by using the ancient astronaut hypothesis as a fictional device to produce a contemporary kind of plausibility allowed Abel Montagut to renew epic poetry, updating it also by adopting science fiction chronotopes in order to structure his fictional construction and to generate a high ethical sense for our time. Thus, his Poemo de Utnoa (1993) / La gesta d’Utnoa (1996), which has become a major classic of the literature in Esperanto thanks to its original version in this language, is a landmark of both science fiction and neo-biblical epics. This poem is written from a secular and purely literary perspective.
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Pub Date : 2015-06-22DOI: 10.5209/rev_AMAL.2015.v7.48394
Esther Lorenzo García
Estos relatos de Kundera, en los que se entrelazan humor y compasion, ejemplifican como el amor, de modo paralelo a los mitos asociados a el, ha devenido en desvirtuados sucedaneos. Y como, pese a todo, surge aun con el reclamo magico de modificar una realidad insoportable, caracterizada por la negacion de la libertad y por la conciencia de los propios limites. Junto con el escepticismo ideologico, el enfoque ironico en la recreacion de mitos (y, en relacion con esto, en el tratamiento de emociones) situa a El libro de los amores ridiculos en la orbita de la narrativa posmoderna.
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Pub Date : 2015-01-01DOI: 10.5209/rev_amal.2015.v7.48348
N. Leporini
In this article I will focus on the transformation of mythic archetypes in Margaret Atwood’s collection of poetry You Are Happy. More specifically, I will analyze Atwood’s use of the character Circe (and, indirectly, Odysseus) in the section titled “Circe / Mud Poems.” My hypothesis is that Atwood’s revision of mythic archetypes can find an appropriate interpretation when it is read as a reflection on the colonial condition. For this reason, the treatment of the mythical archetypes will be explained referring to three key concepts in postcolonial studies: ambivalence, mimicry, and transculturation.
{"title":"La transculturación de los arquetidos míticos: la \"Circe\" de Margaret Atwood","authors":"N. Leporini","doi":"10.5209/rev_amal.2015.v7.48348","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5209/rev_amal.2015.v7.48348","url":null,"abstract":"In this article I will focus on the transformation of mythic archetypes in Margaret Atwood’s collection of poetry You Are Happy. More specifically, I will analyze Atwood’s use of the character Circe (and, indirectly, Odysseus) in the section titled “Circe / Mud Poems.” My hypothesis is that Atwood’s revision of mythic archetypes can find an appropriate interpretation when it is read as a reflection on the colonial condition. For this reason, the treatment of the mythical archetypes will be explained referring to three key concepts in postcolonial studies: ambivalence, mimicry, and transculturation.","PeriodicalId":40412,"journal":{"name":"Amaltea-Revista de MitocrItica","volume":"1 1","pages":"37-55"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2015-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.5209/rev_amal.2015.v7.48348","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70734305","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":"Estadísticas del volumen 6","authors":"Amaltea. Revista de mitocrítica","doi":"10.5209/AMAL.47369","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5209/AMAL.47369","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40412,"journal":{"name":"Amaltea-Revista de MitocrItica","volume":"10 2 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2014-11-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70668428","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":"\"Para una arqueología del imaginario medieval. Mitos y ritos paganos en el calendario cristiano y en la literatura del Medioevo (Seminarios en México)\", de Philippe Walter; edición y traducción de Cristina Azuela.","authors":"M. Araque","doi":"10.5209/AMAL.46533","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5209/AMAL.46533","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40412,"journal":{"name":"Amaltea-Revista de MitocrItica","volume":"6 1","pages":"401-404"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2014-09-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70668132","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":"\"Sirenas: seducción y metamorfosis\", de Carlos García Gual. Madrid: Turner, 2014.","authors":"B. Barros","doi":"10.5209/AMAL.46534","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5209/AMAL.46534","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40412,"journal":{"name":"Amaltea-Revista de MitocrItica","volume":"6 1","pages":"395-400"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2014-09-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70668410","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}
Pub Date : 2014-09-03DOI: 10.5209/REV_AMAL.2014.V6.46529
S. Cambou
In the light of three contemporary works ― two novels and one movie ― an analysis of elements modifying the traditional interpretation of the myth of Ulysses is proposed, taking into account the omnipresence of the North and the Nekyia. The oblique approach to the character of Ulysses will also be addressed, since he appears under other names and mixed with other mythological or legendary figures, such as Homer and Narcissus. Since they highlight those elements, almost nonexistent in Homer’s Odyssey, the studied rewritings reorientate the interpretation of the myth by endowing it with a new meaning focused on thoughts about death and the hereafter.
{"title":"Ulysse pris dans les glaces : odyssées de brume et de neige","authors":"S. Cambou","doi":"10.5209/REV_AMAL.2014.V6.46529","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5209/REV_AMAL.2014.V6.46529","url":null,"abstract":"In the light of three contemporary works ― two novels and one movie ― an analysis of elements modifying the traditional interpretation of the myth of Ulysses is proposed, taking into account the omnipresence of the North and the Nekyia. The oblique approach to the character of Ulysses will also be addressed, since he appears under other names and mixed with other mythological or legendary figures, such as Homer and Narcissus. Since they highlight those elements, almost nonexistent in Homer’s Odyssey, the studied rewritings reorientate the interpretation of the myth by endowing it with a new meaning focused on thoughts about death and the hereafter.","PeriodicalId":40412,"journal":{"name":"Amaltea-Revista de MitocrItica","volume":"6 1","pages":"331-342"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2014-09-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.5209/REV_AMAL.2014.V6.46529","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70733910","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}
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