mythology
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Elements of Beauty
For Tor.com, Mari Ness writes on the long history of the Beauty and the Beast fairy tale, starting with second century CE Roman writer Apuleius and through its later rebirths in the 18th and 19th centuries.
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Hoaxing History
The mythology of the New World – as expansive as the continent itself – engendered a mania for magical thinking, for reinvigorating Old-World myths in a land that still felt only half-real…. a land without myths can be a lonely…
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Myth Remaking
For Lit Hub, Michele Filgate interviews Lidia Yuknavitch on her new novel, The Small Backs of Children, to explore the idea of new symbols and mythology for contemporary culture: I’m not clear why we have to limit ourselves to old myths without…
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I Enjoy That Confusion: Paul Rome and Roarke Menzies’s Philadelphia and Other Stories
Does art imitate life or does life imitate art?
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The Rumpus Interview with Will Chancellor
Debut novelist Will Chancellor talks about successful satire, destroying drafts of A Brave Man Seven Storeys Tall to get to the finished version, and the advantages of fiction over competing media.
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The White One in the Woods
Last summer was a difficult season, the worst I’ve had in years. I bloodied an eye from weeping, capillaries branching like red vines around the hazel nest where my pupil gleams like a black egg.
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Translators Lost in Translation
Once upon a time, folktales contained sex and violence. But as the stories were collected by cultural anthropologists, they were gradually stripped of this adult content in order to make them suitable for children. Moreover, these neutered children’s stories often…
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The Rumpus Interview with Marina Warner
Marina Warner’s work often focuses on mythology and the deconstruction of “myths of the feminine,” from Mother Goose, to the Virgin Mary, to Joan of Arc, and more. Here, the cultural historian talks about her latest work, Stranger Magic: Charmed…