Introduction

• Published in: Journal of comparative literature & aesthetics 2019-07, Vol.42, p.1-5
• Main Authors: Camacho, Manuel Botero, Etxeberria, Juan González
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: Archetypes (Psychology); Authenticity; Authorship; Contemporary literature; Epic literature; Females; Gaiman, Neil; Graphic novels; Heroism & heroes; Ideology; Literary characters; Literary criticism; Literary devices; Literary influences; Literature; Modern literature; Modernism; Modernity; Morality; Music; Mythology; Narrative structure; Narrative techniques; Narratives; Poetry; Readers; Reading; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Stereotypes; Writers
• ISSN: 0252-8169

[...]its main objective is to show how these emotional and structural narratives have been adapted to modern times in different artistic disciplines, such as literature, cinema or graphic novels. Moving away from their conventional limitation to observe male characters activity, women have broken their historically imposed silence and, as a result, in an attempt to balance the unequal treatment between male and female spheres, some myths, or various particular characters, have been interpreted in a different way in more contemporary texts. In this article, Cantillo follows Clytemnestras psychological evolution from the stereotyped malleable Greek woman to a much more robust philosophical voice which climaxes into an incredibly methodological act of revenge that brings her no satisfaction, making her become a voice that ties myth with contemporary ideas of metaphysics, existentialism and rationalism. [...]we are given a look into the mind of the new Queen of Argos: a vengeful rationalist, a circumspect rebel, and a prophet for our liquid modernity. According to Palazzolo, it is Banville's reading of Keats and Stevens's poetry on the metamorphoses of Apollo that reinforces the idea that myths can be seen as multiple signifiers-both in fictionalized and metafictionalized terms.