Welcome to the third Working Papers roundtable discussion. In this issue, devoted to myths, gods, and heroes, our contributing authors analyze the rewriting of religious myths, the confrontation of conflicting conceptions of nationality and belonging, and the intertextual nexus through which Greco-Roman mythology meets Modernism. To complement their analyses, we asked experienced scholars who have […]
Monthly Archives: January 2008
Heroes, Gods, and Myths: The Myths That We Create and How They Create Us
January 11, 2008 – 11:03 am
Questioning the Nation: Ambivalent Narratives in Le Retour au désert by Bernard-Marie Koltès
January 11, 2008 – 11:02 am
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Kathryn Kleppinger
New York University
Bernard-Marie Koltès has remained nearly as enigmatic almost 20 years after his death as in the early 1980s, when his plays routinely challenged and confused contemporary audiences and critics. Koltès’ writing, which combines lyric elegance with biting social commentary, has gained in […]
À la Recherche d’un Dieu Perdu: Recreating Religion in La Tentation de Saint Antoine
January 11, 2008 – 11:02 am
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Willemijn Don
New York University
La Tentation de Saint Antoine is “un livre qui fait peur,” according to Flaubert scholar Jeanne Bem (13). Indeed, it is a monstrous text that presents us with multiple characters and an amalgam of heresies and temptations. Confusion further stems from the difference in […]
La italicidad como quiasma clásico en De sobremesa de José Asunción Silva
January 11, 2008 – 11:02 am
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Pablo Martínez Diente
Vanderbilt University.
Un fervor lírico dilataba su pensamiento. El final de Percy Shelley, tantas veces envidiado y soñado bajo la sombra del palpitar del velaje, se le apareció en un inmenso reflejo de poesía. Aquel destino poseía una grandiosidad y una tristeza sobrehumana. Su muerte es misteriosa y […]
Heroes, Gods, and Myths: The Myths That We Create and How They Create Us; Volume 2, Number 1 Fall 2008
During a recent trip to Mexico, I glimpsed a weather-beaten billboard for a Christian children’s organization that pleaded “Sea un heroe, salve un niño” – Be a hero, save a child. The definition of heroism implied in this advertisement, complex in its inclusion of religion, morality, and cash donations, doesn’t strike us as powerful myth […]