RT info:eu-repo/semantics/article
T1 Michael Field’s Long Ago (1889): A Transcendental Mythopoesis of Desire and Death
A1 Cantillo Lucuara, Mayron Estefan
A2 Ediciones Universidad de Valladolid
AB In this article, I propose a new reading of Michael Field’s Long Ago (1889) focused on explaining how this volume of verse appropriates the figure of Sappho, rewrites her failed romance with Phaon, and amplifies her archetypal image of tragic lover through a mythopoetic narrative that refashions different classical myths of desire, despair and death. I present all these myths jointly, discuss their assonances with the Sapphic archetype, and reveal how they constitute a coherent and elaborate mythography that portrays Sappho as a tragic heroine who, through the power of myth, embodies a universal paradigm of human affectivity.
SN 2531-1654
YR 2018
FD 2018
LK http://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/33723
UL http://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/33723
LA eng
NO ES Review. Spanish Journal of English Studies; No 39 (2018) pags. 69-96
DS UVaDOC
RD 24-abr-2024