TY - BOOK AU - McConnell,Justine AU - Hall,Edith TI - Ancient Greek myth in world fiction since 1989 T2 - Bloomsbury Studies in Classical Reception SN - 9781472579379 (hardback) AV - PN56.M95 A53 2016 U1 - 809.3/93829213 23 PY - 2016/// CY - London PB - Bloomsbury Academic KW - Literature, Modern KW - 20th century KW - Classical influences KW - 21st century KW - Mythology, Classical, in literature KW - fast KW - Mythologie KW - gnd KW - Rezeption KW - Literatur KW - Griechenland KW - Altertum N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction / Justine McConnell -- From anthropophagy to allegory and back: a study of classical myth and the Brazilian novel / Patrice Rankine -- Ibrahim al-Koni's Lost oasis as Atlantis and his demon as Typhon / William M. Hutchins -- Greek myth and mythmaking in Witi Ihimaera's The matriarch (1986) and The dream swimmer (1997) / Simon Perris -- War, religion and tragedy: the revolt of the muckers in Luiz Antonio de Assis Brasil's Videira de cristal / Sofia Frade -- Translating myths, translating fictions / Lorna Hardwick -- Echoes of ancient Greek myths in Murakami Haruki's novels and in other works of contemporary Japanese literature / Giorgio Amitrano -- "It's all in the game": Greek myth and the wire / Adam Ganz -- Writing a new Irish odyssey: Theresa Kishkan's A man in a distant field / Fiona Macintosh -- The minotaur on the Russian internet: Viktor Pelevin's Helmet of horror / Anna Ljunggren -- Diagnosis: overdose status: critical odysseys in Bernhard Schlink's Die Heimkehr / Sebastian Matzner -- Narcissus and the Furies: myth and docufiction in Jonathan Littell's The kindly ones / Edith Hall -- Philhellenic imperialism and the invention of the classical past: twenty-first century re-imaginings of Odysseus in the Greek war for independence / Efrossini Spentzou -- The "Poem of force" in Australia: David Malouf, Ransom and Chloe Hooper, The tall man / Margaret Reynolds -- Young female heroes from Sophocles to the twenty-first century / Helen Eastman -- Generation Telemachus: Dinaw Mengestu's How to read the air / Justine McConnell ER -