Translating Myth (Hardcover)

1 Indian Myth: Postcolonial Transmissions 2 Accommodating the Primordial: Myths as Pictorial Storytellings 3 The Anima at the Gate of Hell: Middle Eastern Imagery in Milton’s Paradise Lost 4 The Evolution of Blake’s Myth: Urizen’s Multiple Identities 5 Unweaving the National Strand of the ‘Golden String’ of Jerusalem: Blake’s British Myth and its (Polish) Translation 6 America ? No Second Troy: A Study of Early American Epic 7 The Power of Narrative: Hawthorne’s A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys 8 Of Marble Women and Sleeping Nymphs: Louisa May Alcott’s A Modern Mephistopheles 9 ‘I have no speech but symbol’: Nationality and History in Yeats’s Poetics of Myth and Myth-making 10 The Faust Myth: Fernando Pessoa’s Fausto and C. G. Jung’s The Red Book 11 ‘Pius Seamus’: Heaney’s Appropriation of Aeneas’s Descent to the Underworld 12 Another Oedipus: Leloup’s Gueido 13 Translating Myths, from Sita to Sati 14 (Re)writing and (Re)translating the Myth: Analysing Derek Walcott’s Italian Odyssey