Eleazar M. Meletinsky, The Poetics of Myth [2000] (2024)

Mythologies.By Roland Barthes. Translated by Annette Lavers

Journal of The British Society for Phenomenology, 1973

Chapter on Myth in World Literature Decentered

World Literature Decentered, 2022

This is the middle chapter of my book WORLD LITERATURE DECENTERED (Routledge, 2022) on the retelling of myth in Mexican, Bengali and Turkish literary traditions.

Review of: Ali Naci Asan 2014 "Der Mythos vom erzürnten Gott...", WZKM 106

The book under review represents an important contribution to modern studies on myths of Anatolian origin. In other words, on texts that scholars agree have a native background, but of which only later copies dated in Middle Hittite and New Hittite – with an exception in Old Hittite (KBo 25.107) – are preserved. One of the most remarkable contributions to find in Asan’s book is, in my opinion, the way the author has oriented the research. Accordingly, Asan brings together a comparative study of the different sections of TM with other texts belonging to the same group, and structures the volume around varied passages of the myth and its associated texts.This methodology is possible because we are confronted with a group of texts which share the same topos: the rage and disappearance of gods, as well as the catastrophic consequences that follow their vanishing.

(Neo)mythological Elements in the Modern Russian Prose (through the Example of “Surgeon” by Marina Stepnova)

Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences, 2017

(Neo)mythological Elements in the Modern Russian Prose

2017

The article deals with the method of neomythologization in the novel “Surgeon” by Marina Stepnova. Taking into account that neomythologizm is an important component in the modern socio-cultural ecumene and quite a complex concept, in the novel we analyze one segment of it – the creation and killing of “God” and divine position. The protagonist of the novel, a plastic surgeon Khripunov living in the 20th century, like Hassan-ibn-Sabbah, a monk of the 11th century, is a kind of “God” that in the text is shown through the light of narcissism and the desire to gain the power. At the structural level, the demiurge is the author per se who organizes the narratological whole of the two-side text.

Myth in the structure of a narrative text (Modern Kazakhstani prose as a case study)

Eurasian Journal of Philology: Science and Education, 2021

"Artful Myth": Review of H.A. Shapiro, Myth Into Art: Poet and Painter in Classical Greece

Scholia, 1997

Maria Moog-Grünewald,Mythenrezeption: Die antike Mythologie in Literatur, Musik und Kunst von den Anfängen bis zur Gegenwart. Der Neue Pauly. Supplemente 5 Stuttgart:Verlag J. B. Metzler ,2008 9783476020321

2009

M. Díaz de Cerio Díez, C. Cabrillana & C. Criado (eds.), Ancient Epic. Literary and Linguistic Essays, New Castle Upon Tyne, Cambridge Scholars Publishing. ISBN: 978-1-4438-7421-2., 2015

This book adopts a broad and multifaceted approach to that most preeminent of classical literature genres: the Epic. Set in the ancient world, from archaic Greece to imperial Rome, the scope of interest here extends, for comparative purposes, to Vedic and Sanskrit poetry, as well as the Medieval epic. This collection of papers by classicists from the University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain, embraces key themes in recent scholarship, such as the character of the hero, defined in terms of the conflict of power central to the epos, the metapoetic function of the bard as a literary reflection of epic style, and the manipulation of epic myth to fulfil new functions, such as retelling contemporary history and conveying mystic symbology. Topics rooted in archaic poetry, such as the reutilisation of the ogre character embodied in the Cyclops and the journey into the Underworld, are also explored in great detail. In all these studies, the intertextual nature of ancient writing is consistently addressed through discussions of the revisiting of Homeric poetry by authors such as the Greek tragedians, Empedocles, Plato, Virgil, Ovid, Seneca, Lucan, and Valerius Flaccus. The analysis of the heroic narrative offered in this volume includes both literary phenomena and the language of the epic itself; the reader is thus afforded the widest possible view of current critical perspectives in classical literature and linguistics. Such a comprehensive treatment of the most important genre in the ancient world grants the reader powerful insights into the way in which ancient literature was composed. This collection of studies, while making a substantial contribution to scholarship in this field, will also appeal to a varied academic readership, including researchers in classical literature and linguistics, as well as students of literary theory.