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- Title
Ariadne, Theseus, and the Circumambulation of the Mythic Self.
- Authors
BURNETT, LEON
- Abstract
This article examines a series of literary works in which the idea of return is linked to a sense of the eternal as an expression of the mythic self. The first three examples, which are taken from texts in different genres from the second half of the nineteenth century, show signs of an incipient mythopoeia. Following this introduction to the topic, attention is turned to works that appeared in the first half of the twentieth century, especially those that belong to its second decade. One critical moment in the Cretan myth of Ariadne is singled out for close analysis as an illustration of the modernist preoccupation with--and the continuing vitality of--myths from ancient Greece. In this case study, the focus is on the interaction between sea and shore as having the force of a liminal charge in which the sacred emerges from the profane.
- Subjects
ARIADNE (Greek mythology); MYTH in literature; RATIONALISM in literature; CIRCUMAMBULATION; AEOLUS, father of Sisyphus (Greek mythology)
- Publication
Journal of Comparative Literature & Aesthetics, 2017, Vol 40, Issue 2, p41
- ISSN
0252-8169
- Publication type
Article