Translating Myth

Leon Burnett; Pietra Palazzolo; Leon Burnett

Translating Myth

Edited by Ben Pestell, Pietra Palazzolo and Leon Burnett

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Studies In Comparative Literature 37

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1 September 2016 • 256pp

ISBN: 978-1-910887-04-2 (hardback) • RRP £80, $110, €95

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Ever since Odysseus heard tales of his own exploits being retold among strangers, audiences and readers have been alive to the complications and questions arising from the translation of myth. How are myths taken and carried over into new languages, new civilizations, or new media? An international group of scholars is gathered in this volume to present diverse but connected case studies which address the artistic and political implications of the changing condition of myth – this most primal and malleable of forms. 'Translation' is treated broadly to encompass not only literary translation, but also the transfer of myth across cultures and epochs. In an age when the spiritual world is in crisis, Translating Myth constitutes a timely exploration of myth’s endurance, and represents a consolidation of the status of myth studies as a discipline in its own right.

The editors, Ben Pestell, Pietra Palazzolo and Leon Burnett, serve on the executive committee of the Centre for Myth Studies at the University of Essex.

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Contents:

1-10	Introduction Ben Pestell, Pietra Palazzolo	Cite
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*Part I: Translation and Myth: Across Languages, Media, and Cultures*
12-27	Indian Myth: Postcolonial Transmissions Harish Trivedi	Cite
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28-42	Accommodating the Primordial: Myths as Pictorial Storytellings Leon Burnett	Cite
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43-58	The Anima at the Gate of Hell: Middle Eastern Imagery in Milton’s Paradise Lost Sharihan Al-Akhras	Cite
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*Part II: William Blake’s Myth*
60-100	The Evolution of Blake’s Myth: Urizen’s Multiple Identities Sheila A. Spector	Cite
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101-114	Unweaving the National Strand of the ‘Golden String’ of Jerusalem: Blake’s British Myth and its (Polish) Translation Eliza Borkowska	Cite
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*Part III: Myth in Early United States Literature*
116-130	America — No Second Troy: A Study of Early American Epic Christina Dokou	Cite
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131-143	The Power of Narrative: Hawthorne’s A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys Jessica Allen Hanssen	Cite
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144-160	Of Marble Women and Sleeping Nymphs: Louisa May Alcott’s A Modern Mephistopheles Michaela Keck	Cite
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*Part IV: Myth in Modern and Contemporary Poetry*
162-177	‘I have no speech but symbol’: Nationality and History in Yeats’s Poetics of Myth and Myth-making Rached Khalifa	Cite
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178-194	The Faust Myth: Fernando Pessoa’s Fausto and C. G. Jung’s The Red Book Terence Dawson	Cite
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195-204	‘Pius Seamus’: Heaney’s Appropriation of Aeneas’s Descent to the Underworld Emanuela Zirzotti	Cite
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*Part V: Myth in New Political and Cultural Environments*
206-218	Another Oedipus: Leloup’s Guéidô Barbara Goff	Cite
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219-228	Translating Myths, from Sita to Sati Suman Sigroha	Cite
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229-238	(Re)writing and (Re)translating the Myth: Analysing Derek Walcott’s Italian Odyssey Giuseppe Sofo	Cite
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Pestell, Ben, Pietra Palazzolo, and Leon Burnett (eds), Translating Myth, Studies In Comparative Literature, 37 (Legenda, 2016)

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