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TRANSLATING MYTH

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STUDIES IN COMPARATIVE LITERATURE

Editorial Committee
Dr Duncan Large, British Centre for Literary Translation,
University of East Anglia (Chair)
Dr Emily Finer, University of St Andrews
Dr Dorota Goluch, Cardiff University
Dr Priyamvada Gopal, Churchill College Cambridge
Professor Wen-chin Ouyang, SOAS, London
Professor Timothy Mathews, University College London
Professor Elinor Shaffer, School of Advanced Study, London

Studies in Comparative Literature are produced in close collaboration with the British Comparative Literature Association, and range widely across comparative and theoretical topics in literary and translation studies, accommodating research at the interface between different artistic media and between the humanities and the sciences.

Managing Editor
Dr Graham Nelson
41 Wellington Square, Oxford ox1 2JF, UK

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PUBLISHED IN THIS SERIES

Breeches and Metaphysics: Thackerays German Discourse, by S. S. Prawer

Hlderlin and the Dynamics of Translation, by Charlie Louth

Aeneas Takes the Metro, by Fiona Cox

Metaphor and Materiality: German Literature and the World-View of Science, by Peter D. Smith

Marguerite Yourcenar: Reading the Visual, by Nigel Saint

Treny: The Laments of Kochanowski, translated by Adam Czerniawski

Neither a Borrower: Forging Traditions in French, Chinese and Arabic Poetry, by Richard Serrano

The Anatomy of Laughter, edited by Toby Garfitt, Edith McMorran and Jane Taylor

Dilettantism and its Values: From Weimar Classicism to the fin de sicle, by Richard Hibbitt

The Fantastic in France and Russia in the Nineteenth Century, by Claire Whitehead

Singing Poets: Literature and Popular Music in France and Greece, by Dimitris Papanikolaou

Wanderers Across Language: Exile in Irish and Polish Literature, by Kinga Olszewska

Moving Scenes: The Aesthetics of German Travel Writing on England, by Alison E. Martin

Henry James and the Second Empire, by Angus Wrenn

Platonic Coleridge, by James Vigus

Imagining Jewish Art, by Aaron Rosen

Alienation and Theatricality: Diderot after Brecht, by Phoebe von Held

Turning into Sterne: Viktor Shklovskii and Literary Reception, by Emily Finer

Yeats and Pessoa: Parallel Poetic Styles, by Patricia Silva McNeill

Aestheticism and the Philosophy of Death: Walter Pater and Post-Hegelianism, by Giles Whiteley

Blake, Lavater and Physiognomy, by Sibylle Erle

Rethinking the Concept of the Grotesque: Crashaw, Baudelaire, Magritte, by Shun-Liang Chao

The Art of Comparison: How Novels and Critics Compare, by Catherine Brown

Borges and Joyce: An Infinite Conversation, by Patricia Novillo-Corvaln

Prometheus in the Nineteenth Century: From Myth to Symbol, by Caroline Corbeau-Parsons

Architecture, Travellers and Writers: Constructing Histories of Perception, by Anne Hultzsch

Comparative Literature in Britain: National Identities, Transnational Dynamics 18002000, by Joep Leerssen with Elinor Shaffer

The Realist Author and Sympathetic Imagination, by Sotirios Paraschas

Iris Murdoch and Elias Canetti: Intellectual Allies, by Elaine Morley

Likenesses: Translation, Illustration, Interpretation, by Matthew Reynolds

Exile and Nomadism in French and Hispanic Womens Writing, by Kate Averis

Samuel Butler against the Professionals: Rethinking Lamarckism 18601900, by David Gillott

Byron, Shelley, and Goethes Faust: An Epic Connection, by Ben Hewitt

Leopardi and Shelley: Discovery, Translation and Reception, by Daniela Cerimonia

Oscar Wilde and the Simulacrum: The Truth of Masks, by Giles Whiteley

The Modern Culture of Reginald Farrer: Landscape, Literature and Buddhism, by Michael Charlesworth

Translating Myth, edited by Ben Pestell, Pietra Palazzolo and Leon Burnett

Encounters with Albion: Britain and the British in Texts by Jewish Refugees from Nazism, by Anthony Grenville

The Rhetoric of Exile: Duress and the Imagining of Force, by Vladimir Zori

A Cosmopolitan Cure: Writing Resort Culture in an Age of Nations, by B. D. Morgan

Translating Myth

EDITED BY BEN PESTELL
PIETRA PALAZZOLO AND LEON BURNETT

Studies in Comparative Literature 37
Modern Humanities Research Association and Routledge