Cambridge Scholars Publishing Women Poets and Myth in the 20th and 21st Centuries: On Sappho’s Website

This book rereads and re-examines the important tradition of women poets and theorists who have both critically and creatively engaged with the study and reconsideration of the role played by myths in our Western society, assessing their impact in different eras. Such poets and theorists as H.D., Laura Riding, Denise Levertov, Margaret Atwood, Anne Carson, and Natalie Diaz have responded to myths, either by recreating, rewriting, and interrogating the power of myths to articulate our reality, or by creating and “begetting” new myths for the present. In order to interrogate whether myths throughout the 20th and 21st centuries can act as catalysts for new ideas and imaginative re-creations, this volume travels the path of essential works of poetry by women. About the Author Esther Sánchez-Pardo is Professor of English at Complutense University of Madrid, Spain. She is the author of Cultures of the Death Drive: Melanie Klein and Modernist Melancholia (2003) and Antología Poética, Mina Loy (2009), and the editor of six books, including L’écriture désirante: Marguerite Duras (with A.M. Reboul; 2016). Rosa Burillo has been Associate Professor at Complutense University of Madrid, Spain, since 2008. She has published extensively on the short story in English with significant work on Thomas Pynchon, Raymond Carver and Jhumpa Lahiri. She is the author of Señas de Identidad. Introducción al Relato Norteamericano (2007). María Porras Sánchez is Assistant Professor in the English Department at Complutense University of Madrid, Spain. Her scholarly work on modernist and avant-garde writers, such as Paul and Jane Bowles, the Beat Generation, and Spanish essayists of the early 20th century, has appeared in the International Yearbook of Futurism and Classica Digitalia.