Table of Contents

1 Indian Myth: Postcolonial Transmissions 2 Accommodating the Primordial: Myths as Pictorial Storytellings 3 The Anima at the Gate of Hell: Middle Eastern Imagery in Milton’s Paradise Lost 4 The Evolution of Blake’s Myth: Urizen’s Multiple Identities 5 Unweaving the National Strand of the ‘Golden String’ of Jerusalem: Blake’s British Myth and its (Polish) Translation 6 America — No Second Troy: A Study of Early American Epic 7 The Power of Narrative: Hawthorne’s A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys 8 Of Marble Women and Sleeping Nymphs: Louisa May Alcott’s A Modern Mephistopheles 9 ‘I have no speech but symbol’: Nationality and History in Yeats’s Poetics of Myth and Myth-making 10 The Faust Myth: Fernando Pessoa’s Fausto and C. G. Jung’s The Red Book 11 ‘Pius Seamus’: Heaney’s Appropriation of Aeneas’s Descent to the Underworld 12 Another Oedipus: Leloup’s Guéidô 13 Translating Myths, from Sita to Sati 14 (Re)writing and (Re)translating the Myth: Analysing Derek Walcott’s Italian Odyssey

About the Author

The editors, Ben Pestell, Pietra Palazzolo and Leon Burnett, serve on the executive committee of the Centre for Myth Studies at the University of Essex.