'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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