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Author:  Judith Fletcher 

Myths of the Underworld in Contemporary Culture: The Backward Gaze examines a series of twentieth and twenty-first century fictional works that adapt Greco-Roman myths of the catabasis, the heroic journey to the underworld. Covering a range of genres – including novels, comics, and children’s culture, by authors such as Elena Ferrante, Salman Rushdie, Neil Gaiman, A. S. Byatt, Toni Morrison, and Anne Patchett – it reveals how an enduring fascination with life after death, and fantasies of accessing the world of the dead while we are still alive, manifest themselves in myriad and varied re-imaginings of the ancient descent myth. The volume begins with a detailed overview of the use of the myth by ancient authors such as Homer, Aristophanes, Vergil, and Ovid, before exploring the ways in which the narrative of a return trip to Hades by Odysseus, Aeneas, Orpheus, and Persephone can be manipulated by contemporary storytellers to fit themes of social marginality and alterity, postmodern rebellion, the position of female authors in the literary canon, and the dislocation endured by refugees, exiles, and diasporic populations. It also argues that citations of classical underworld stories can disrupt and challenge the literary canon by using media – such as comic books, children’s culture, or rock music – not conventionally associated with high culture.

Myths of the Underworld in Contemporary Culture: The Backward Gaze 1st Table of contents:

1. Source Texts
The Odyssean Nekyia
Heracles and Dionysus
The Descent of Aeneas
Orpheus and Eurydice
Persephone
Elements of the Underworld Narrative
2. The Ghost of the Father: Spirits of the Postmodern
Finding the Way in John Barth’s Underworld
The Anxiety of Influence in Neil Gaiman’s Underworlds
3. Engendering the Haunted Text
Mutations and Hauntings: A.S. Byatt’s Angels and Insects
Mutations: “Morpho Eugenia”
Hauntings: “The Conjugial Angel”
Persephone Interrupted: Coraline
The Doll’s Descent: Searching for Persephone in the Novels of Elena Ferrante
4. The Wanderer’s Descent: The Underworlds of Diaspora
Ascending from Oblivion in Toni Morrison’s Song of Solomon
Amy Bloom’s Away: Dreams of Hell
On the Outside Looking In: Salman Rushdie’s The Ground Beneath Her Feet
The Ghost of the Father in Ann Patchett’s State of Wonder

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