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International Studies in Phenomenology and Philosophy

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Looking at myth in modern Mexican literature

Ian Almond

pp. 139-160

Abstract

In attempting to understand the place of rewriting myth in twentieth-century Mexican literature and its precise relationship to modernity, this chapter suggests five categories (aggrandisement, inhabitation, reversal, manipulation, and appropriation) as a tentative means of delineating the range of retellings involved. Figures such as Alfonso Reyes are invoked to attempt to understand (but also problematize) how such a set of soft categories might help us to understand the relationship between modernity, modernism and the re-writing of myth in the literary history of Mexico. The essay ends, however, with a reminder of the limitations of such categories against a background of overwhelmingly specific and idiosyncratic literary developments.

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(2018) Language and literature in a glocal world. Dordrecht, Springer.

Pages: 139-160

DOI: 10.1007/978-981-10-8468-3_9

Full citation:

Almond Ian (2018) „Looking at myth in modern Mexican literature“, In: , Language and literature in a glocal world, Dordrecht, Springer, 139–160.