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'Legenda': Reading and Writing Myth
New Comparison, Number 27/28 (Spring-Autumn 1999)

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'Legenda': Reading and Writing Myth

Papers from the VIII BCLA International Conference
Lancaster University, 15-18 July 1998
Edited by Leon Burnett and Maurice Slawinski

  • Leon Burnett and Maurice Slawinski, Introduction
  • Malcolm Quainton, Unusual Births in the Poetry of Pierre de Ronsard
  • Elizabeth Vinestock, Myth and Environmentalism in a Renaissance Poem: Jean Antoine de Baïf's "La Ninfe Bievre"
  • Simon Mealor, "And I Saw New Heaven and New Earth": Revelation 21 and Myths of Homecoming (Two Huguenot Immigrants in Elizabethan England)
  • Charlie Louth, Figures of Transition: Centaurs in Goethe and Hölderlin
  • Marie-Josephine Diamond, Benedikte Naubert's "Der kurze Mantel": The Spiders in the Web of the Romantic Fairy Tale
  • Penny Brown, Transformations: Reason and Imagination in the Nineteenth-Century Fairy Tale
  • Caroline Sumpter, The Spinster Tale-Teller in the Victorian Marketplace: Anne Thackeray's Revisionary Fairy Tales for the Cornhill Magazine
  • Karen Seago, Let Sleeping Beauties Lie? On the Difficulties of Revisioning the Tale
  • Susan Sellars, "The Pleasures of the Damned", or Why Feminists Hate Fairy Tales
  • Ann Lawson Lucas, The Purposes of Pirates: Historical and Mythical, Tragical and Comical, Ancient and (Post)Modern
  • Merrill Cole, Mythological Desire and the Male Lesbian: Reading Baudelaire's "Femmes Damnées"
  • Frances Babbage, "Fatal Attraction": The Rusalka Reborn in Zinaida Gippius' "Sacred Blood"
  • Kimberley Sutherland, The Arresting Eye/I: Marcel Watches Oriane in A la recherche du temps perdu
  • Hugo Azerad, Epiphany, Aura and Myths in Marcel Proust and William Faulkner
  • Carol L. Yang, What the Thunder Said: An Unfinalizing Dialogue of The Waste Land
  • Laurence Coupe, "Rotten with Perfection": Myth, Modernism and Order
  • Miguel Crespo, The Genealogical Character of Modernist Re-Enactments of Ancient Myths
  • Matthew Kibble, Fantasies of Origin: Myths of Matriarchy in Bachofen, Freud and H.D.
  • David Rudd, Is Man a Myth? C. S. Lewis, Shadowlands, and Self-Destructive Fantasy
  • Nicoletta Di Ciolla McGowan, A Child with a View: Childhood and Self-Discovery in Mansfield and Morante
  • Charles Forsdick, Refiguring Revolution: The Myth of Toussaint L'Ouverture in C. L. R. James and Edouard Glissant
  • Catherine Hoffmann, A Journey Through Narrative Valleys: The Writing and Rewriting of Heroic Myth in Anthony Powell's Dance to the Music of Time
  • Susan Posnar, Alias Who? Myth-Making in the Mesmeric/Hypnotic Dialogue (Nathaniel Hawthorne, George du Maurier, Margaret Atwood)
  • Ed Moffatt, A Modern Myth of Masculinity: Serial Behaviour and the Sense of Smell in Rosa Montero's Te trataré como a una reina
  • Timothy Weiss, Rushdie's Xanadu: Radical Typology in The Moor's Last Sigh
  • Sarah Broom, "A Spirit in the Wilderness": Myth and Fairy Legend in the Poetry of Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill
  • Danielle Hipkins, The Siren Song of the Text: Male Myth-Readings in Contemporary Italian Women's Writing

  • Contributors to New Comparison 27/28


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