Myths of the Underworld in Contemporary Culture: The Backward Gaze

by 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198767099
• ISBN13: 9780198767091
• Release Date: June 2019
• Publisher: Oxford University Press (UK)
• Length: 238 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.5" x 8.6"