Ancient Greek Myth in World Fiction Since 1989 (Hardcover)

Acknowledgements List of Contributors Introduction, Justine McConnell 1 From Anthropophagy to Allegory and Back: A Study of Classical Myth and the Brazilian Novel, Patrice Rankine 2 Ibrahim Al-Koni's Lost Oasis as Atlantis and His Demon as Typhon, William M. Hutchins 3 Greek Myth and Mythmaking in Witi Ihimaera's The Matriarch and The Dream Swimmer, Simon Perris 4 War, Religion and Tragedy: The Revolt of the Muckers in Luiz Antonio de Assis Brasil's Videiras de Cristal, Sofia Frade 5 Translating Myths, Translating Fictions, Lorna Hardwick 6 Echoes of Ancient Greek Myths in Murakami Haruki's novels and in Other Works of Contemporary Japanese Literature, Giorgio Amitrano 7 'It's All in the Game': Greek Myth and The Wire, Adam Ganz 8 Writing a New Irish Odyssey: Theresa Kishkan's A Man in a Distant Field, Fiona Macintosh 9 The Minotaur on the Russian Internet: Viktor Pelevin's Helmet of Horror, Anna Ljunggren 10 Diagnosis: Overdose - Status: Critical. Odysseys in Bernhard Schlink's Die Heimkehr, Sebastian Matzner 11 Narcissus and the Furies: Myth and Docufiction in Jonathan Littell's The Kindly Ones, Edith Hall 12 Philhellenic Imperialism and the Invention of the Classical Past: Twenty-first Century Re-imaginings of Odysseus in the Greek War for Independence, Efrossini Spentzou 13 The 'Poem of Force' in Australia: David Malouf, Ransom and Chloe Hooper, The Tall Man, Margaret Reynolds 14 Young Female Heroes from Sophocles to the Twenty-First Century, Helen Eastman 15 Generation Telemachus: Dinaw Mengestu's How to Read the Air, Justine McConnell