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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Fernández, Ana González-Rivas
• Lipscomb, Antonella

Titel

Introduction

Ist Teil von

• Journal of comparative literature & aesthetics, 2017-01, Vol.40 (2), p.1-6

Ort / Verlag

Cuttack

Erscheinungsjahr

2017

Quelle

Literature Online (LION)

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Since the moment we are born, our lives are shaped by an eternal return. Other works, such as Tony Harrison's film poem The Gaze of the Gorgon, emerge as examples of new memoryism, that resorts to myth as a tool to explore the darkest chapters of human History -in this case, the World War I. Finally, Simon Armitage's Mister Hercules: After Euripides (2000) provides a paramount example of how the addition of new material contributes to the modern recreations of the myths, where the translation of the emotions prevails over the faithful recreation of the storyline. Emotion also dominates another 20th century fiction, namely Flannery O' Connor's novel The Violent Bear it Away, as Ángel Ruiz Pérez suggests in his article by comparing Achilles' wrath, as is described in Homer's Iliad, and the emotional rage Francis Marion Tarwater is filled with. In his article "Ariadne, Theseus, and the circumambulation of the mythic self", Leon Burnett analyses the concept of the eternal return or return to origins and shows how it can be understood in various ways: from re-enactment of a ritual, re-telling of a literary work, re-presentation in the world of art, or recurrence in nature of a primordial event.