TABLE OF CONTENTS xi Preface Prefacio I: INTRODUCTION xv CRITICISM: Chapter One The Subversive Triad: A Theoretical Approach Jose Manuel Losada Goya 3 (Spanish Version) La triada subversiva: un Jose Manuel Losada Goya 13 Chapter Two Myth and Literature Robert A. 23 II: PRE-WAR FICTION Three 41 Subversion del discurso y del genero novelistico en la narrativa espanola de vanguardia (1926-1934) Gregory Coste Chapter Four los de la antigua Grecia a Alberto Moravia Francesco De Martino Myth and subversion in the contemporary novel 2012 53 digitalisiert durch: IDS Basel Bern vi Table of Contents Five El en la novela vanguardista espanola: una sobre la realidad Rosa Urtasun 67 oblicua Six Menesteos, antiheroe de Maria Teresa Leon Carla Perugini 81 Chapter Seven Gide's The Rosalie Sinopoulou 93 Foundations a POST-WAR FICTION Eight Pynchon's Maas: Subversion or Polyphonic Echoing and Mirroring ofMyth Drina Hocevar 107 Nine Les ofOedipus Christian 119 and the "Terrorist" Recycling of the Myth Chapter Ten Perseguidores de la nada: la Subversion del mito de Jason y los Argonautas en Los premios de Cortazar Aagje Monballieu 131 Chapter Eleven La cosmogonia Elizabeth Sänchez 145 en Le IV: ANCIENT MYTHS de Calvino TODAY'S FICTION Chapter Twelve Revision and Invention of Myths in Contemporary Literature: From Italo Calvino's to J.M. Coetzee's Elizabeth Costello 159 Myth and Subversion in the Contemporary Chapter Thirteen Transposicion y Subversion de un mito sobre la en Moloch (1998), una novela negra de Thierry Jonquet Juan Herrero Cecilia vii 173 infantil Chapter Fourteen "The Escape Backwards as an Escape Forwards": Moments of Demythification in Christa Cassandra and Medea Koskinas 187 Chapter The Myth of Pygmalion and the Petrified Fiction Carmen Lara 199 in Recent Chapter Sixteen "How the Greeks Lost Troy": Subversion of Myth in Mark Merlis's An Arrow 's Flight Nicola 213 Chapter Seventeen Javier y mito literario antiguo: modalidades y enjeux de una reescritura Vania Maire Fivaz 225 Chapter Eighteen Atwood bajo signo de Penelope y sus esclavas Felix Martin Gutierrez 239 Nineteen "Strong Myths Never Die": Margaret Atwood's Subversion of Myth in The Tent Peneau 253 Chapter Twenty el mito: incesto y matricidio en Las benevolas de Jonathan Litteil Renault 265 viii Table of Contents Twenty-One Transnational The Subversion of Myth in Ignacio Padilla's Amphitryon Anne Marie Stachura 277 Chapter Twenty-Two The Feminine Face of God: The Myth of Sophia in Michele Fiction Sonia Lopez 287 PART V: BIBLICAL MYTHS Chapter Twenty-Three The Catabasis Myth as Revisited in giardino dei by Giorgio Bassani Sophie Nezri-Dufour 303 Chapter Twenty-Four Noah's Ark and Julian Worm-Eaten Version: From the to the Holocaust in A History World in 10 Chapters Miquel 317 Chapter Twenty-Five The Golems Take New York: The Resurgence of Ozick and Rosenbaum Peter Schulman 327 Golem in the Work Chapter Twenty-Six 341 You See Me, You Female Subversion of Biblical Myths in Marina Short Stories Souhir Zekri PART VI: MODERN MYTHS Chapter Twenty-Seven Homo Lupus as in Fiction about the Third Reich Peter Arnds 357 Subversion and Trauma Myth and Subversion in the Contemporary Chapter Twenty-Eight La reescritura del mito de don Quijote en cristal de Paul Auster Esther Bautista Naranjo ix 371 (1985), Chapter Twenty-Nine El mito del fantasma: muertes del pasado, conflictos del presente Ana Gonzalez-Rivas Fernändez 383 Chapter The Myth of Faust in Latvian Literature: A Postcolonial Interpretation Benedikts Kalnacs 397 Chapter Thirty-One El mito de Ofelia en la obra narrativa de Clara Janes Sharon Keefe Ugalde 407 PART VII: MYTHS AND ARTS Thirty-Two Una forma de Subversion del mito literario: de la novela a la publicidad De Martino 421 Chapter Thirty-Three Contra y por Marcel Duchamp Paula Juanpere 437 Chapter Thirty-Four Coincidencias miticas: Peter Pan y el terror en el Alfonso Munoz Corcuera 449 contemporaneo PART VIII: MYTHS Chapter Thirty-Five Mitos mestizos en la novela hispanoamericana: estudio de las figuras cristicas en Oficio de (R. Castellanos) e Hijo de (A. Roa Bastos) Fabry 463 x of Contents Chapter Thirty-Six Mestizaje mitopoetico en Terra nostra: Carlos Fuentes entre el y los Gernert 475 Chapter Thirty-Seven The Subversion of Greek and Hindu Myths in Bharati Mukherjee's Novels Lawrence Gouaux 489 Contributors 499 Index 505