Includes bibliographical references (pages 339-360).
Contents:
Introduction. Mythmaking and storytelling / Züleyha Çetiner-Öktem -- Interpreting mythmaking outside of the box : four theories you have almost certainly missed / Marek Oziewicz -- Edges of language : a diachronic look at mythological imagery for non-literate and highly-literate populations / Slobodan Dan Paich -- Questing for 21st century mestizaje in the realm of Greek tragic myth / Aikaterini Delikonstantinidou -- Playing Beckett's Endgame with Derrida's rules : mythicising the Second World War / Begüm Tuğlu -- Deconstruction of the national patriarchal American myths in Inheritors / Yasemin Güniz Sertel -- Myth of the nation : mythmaking as a national discourse in Erendiz Atasü's The other side of the mountain / Erkin Kiryaman -- Craceland : a journey through mythical landscape / Sameerah Mahmood -- Mythologies of childhood : Bengali juvenile magazines of the last two decades / Chilka Ghosh -- The liminal and changing nature of the myth of Englishness in Hanif Kureishi's The Buddha of suburbia / Ercan Afacan -- On the road as an American myth / Cüneyd Atamal -- Creating stories with coyote : Thomas King's narrative trickery in "One good story, that one" / Klára Kolinská -- The myth of Noah's ark in the fictionalisation of Timothy Findley / Carla Comellini -- The flood myth rewritten : memories of a stowaway in A history of the world in 10 1/2 chapters / Özge Özkan -- Mythical hero as one of us : Stephen Dedalus of modern times / Meltem Uzunoğlu-Erten -- A slum in Nairobi, a suicide note and seven transgendered princesses : mythology as pedagogy in the modern world / Jim Savio -- Limit and melancholia : a peratological reading of Blake's The book of Urizen / Anca Munteanu -- The immortal hand and eye : Blake's chaotic creation in The book of Urizen / Ramazan Saral -- God or beast : Patrick Süskind's anti-hero Jean-Baptiste Grenouille in Perfume : the story of a murderer / M. Önder Göncüoğlu -- Defamiliarisation and refamiliarisation of the role of women in Native American myths / Feryal Çubukçu -- Invention of the hunter-hero myth in "The adventures of Colonel Daniel Boone" / Gül Koçsoy -- Demystification of the gender myth through pornographication of flesh in Angela Carter's The Sadeian woman / Işin Sacir -- Remaking feminist myth in Pakistan / Fauzia Janjua -- Unmaking the myth of the silent woman / Mubina Talaat -- The masculine mystique in Lost / Murat Göç -- Technological mythmaking in Angela Carter's The passion of new Eve / Selin Yilmaz -- Timeless desire for immortality : the phoenix in J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series / Ayşen Demir-Kiliç -- Mythmaking in Meyer's Twilight saga / Meryem Ayan -- The argonauts and Star wars : ships in quest of the impossible / Eleni Boliaki.
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