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(2018) Language and literature in a glocal world, Dordrecht, Springer.
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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DOI: 10.1007/978-981-10-8468-3_9
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Almond, I. (2018)., Looking at myth in modern Mexican literature, in , Language and literature in a glocal world, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 139-160.
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