Mythical Narratives in Comparative European Literature / Le récit mythique dans la littérature européenne comparée, CompLit. Journal of European Literature, Arts and Society, Asun López-Varela y José Manuel Losada (dir.), 7 (2024), París, Classiques Garnier, 236 p. ISSN 2780-2523. ISBN 978-2-406-16969-7.
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“The Referential Function of Myth”, Mythical Narratives in Comparative European Literature, CompLit. Journal of European Literature, Arts and Society, París, Classiques Garnier, 7 (2024), pp. 21-39. ISSN 2780-2523. ISBN 978-2-406-16969-7.
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Mythical Narratives in Comparative European Literature / Le récit mythique dans la littérature européenne comparée, CompLit. Journal of European Literature, Arts and Society, Asun López-Varela y José Manuel Losada (dir.), 7 (2024), París, Classiques Garnier, 236 p. ISSN 2780-2523. ISBN 978-2-406-16969-7.
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“The Referential Function of Myth”, Mythical Narratives in Comparative European Literature, CompLit. Journal of European Literature, Arts and Society, París, Classiques Garnier, 7 (2024), pp. 21-39. ISSN 2780-2523. ISBN 978-2-406-16969-7.
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“Introduction” (Asun López-Varela y José Manuel Losada), Mythical Narratives in Comparative European Literature, en CompLit. Journal of European Literature, Arts and Society, París, Classiques Garnier, 7 (2024), pp. 13-19. ISSN 2780-2523. ISBN 978-2-406-16969-7.
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“Mito y mitocrítica cultural: un itinerario personal”, Mito: teorías de un concepto controvertido, Madrid, Sial Pigmalión, 2024, pp. 83-95. ISBN 978-84-19928-03-0.
The bibliography on modern reworkings of mythical narratives is immense: Greco-Latin myths in novels and adventure films, adaptations of Celtic, Norse, or Slavic myths in cinema, TV series and comics, the relationships between Eastern and Western myths… The list is endless and somehow overabundant compared to the smaller (though still huge) bibliography of theories of myth. The reason for this disproportion is due, in part, to the difficulty involved in abstracting general criteria. When critics seek to define myth, they must first strip it of spatial, temporal or circumstantial conditioning; only later will they be able to apply the label “myth” to this or that story.
Different key factors of our contemporary society (the phenomenon of globalisation, the dogmas of relativism, the logics of immanence) make the definition of myth even more difficult for the non-specialized public and for academic researchers alike. Indeed, academic reflection has not been immune to contemporary confusion about myth: in the wake of great psychoanalysts, sociologists or political experts, many researchers apply to their work certain conceptions of myth that identify it with individual sublimations, social deformations, or tendentious ideologies. For this reason, later on, the non-specialized public ―cheered on by the sensationalism of the press― likes to label any fallacy as “mythical”: apparently, the term “myth” cloaks the user of non-mythical discourses with a golden aura.
The volume has been coordinated by José Manuel Losada and Antonella Lipscomb. Both have traced an extensive trajectory in publishing books focused on myths: six volumes published in Italy, Germany, and the United Kingdom. Myth: Theories of a Controversial Concept comprises nine studies on myth written by university researchers from Portugal, Italy, Spain, and the United Kingdom: all of them shed light on a coherent definition of myth.
On the 28th of February 2024, the volume was awarded the 2023 International "Aristotle of Thought and Essay" Prize, bestowed by the Sial Pigmalión Editorial Group in the Boardroom of the Faculty of Philology at the Complutense University.
“La vejez inmortal. Consideraciones sobre el mitema de la inmortalidad”, Nerter, 38-39 (2023), pp. 42-48. ISSN 1575-8621.
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“L’enlèvement de Mlle de Montmorency-Boutteville et de la fille de Lope de Vega. Un événement de cour en France et un événement domestique en Espagne au XVIIe siècleˮ, Poésie de cour et de circonstance, théâtre historique. La mise en vers de l’événement dans les mondes hispanique et européen. XVIe-XVIIe siècles, Marie-Laure Acquier y Emmanuel Marigno (dirs.), París, L’Harmattan, 2014, pp. 267-276. ISBN: 978-2-343-02790-6.
“Mito y símbolo”, Philologia, Universitas, Vita. Trabajos en honor de Tomás González Rolán, J.M. Baños Baños, Mª F. del Barrio Vega, Mª.T. Callejas Berdonés y A. López Fonseca (eds.), Madrid, Escolar y Mayo Editores, 2014, pp. 525-532. ISBN: 978-84-16020-27-0.
“Hacia una mitocrítica de las emociones”, Myth and Emotions, José Manuel Losada & Antonella Lipscomb (eds.), Newcastle upon Tyne (Reino Unido), Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017, pp. 27-51. ISBN: 978-1-5275-0011-2.
“Fortunes et infortunes du précepte horatien utile dulci dans la littérature française: essai d’interprétation du Classicisme à la Modernité”, Çédille. Revista de Estudios Franceses (Santa Cruz de Tenerife), 15 (abril 2019), pp. 333-354. ISSN: 1699-4949.
“El mito y la era digital”, Myth and Audiovisual Creation, José Manuel Losada & Antonella Lipscomb (eds.), Berlin, Logos Verlag, 2019, pp. 43-72. ISBN: 978-3-8325-4966-4.
“Mito y antropogonía en la literatura hispanoamericana: Hombres de maíz, de Miguel Ángel Asturias”, Rassegna iberistica (Venezia), 43, 113, Giugno (2020), pp. 41-56. e-ISSN: 2037-6588. ISSN: 0392-4777.
“Cultural Myth Criticism and Today’s Challenges to Myth”, Explaining, Interpreting, and Theorizing Religion and Myth: Contributions in Honor of Robert A. Segal, Nickolas B. Roubekas and Thomas Ryba (eds.), Leiden, Koninklijke Brill NV, 2020, pp. 355-370. ISBN: 978-90-04-43502-5
“Révolution de l’image à l’avènement de la Modernité”, Literatura, crítica, libertad. Estudios en homenaje a Juan Bravo Castillo, Hans Christian Hagedorn, Silvia Molina Plaza y Margarita Rigal Aragón (coords.), Cuenca, Ediciones de la Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, 2020, pp. 603-611. ISBN: 978-84-9044-403-0.
“La trascendencia de la ciencia ficción”, Mito y ciencia ficción, José Manuel Losada & Antonella Lipscomb (eds.), Madrid, Grupo Editorial Sial Pigmalión, 2021, pp. 39-46. ISBN: 978-84-18888-12-0.
“La littérature comparée et l’interculturel. L’exemple franco-espagnol”, Récits du Sud. Relatos del Norte, Jean-Marie Chassagne et al. (eds.), Burdeos, La Nef, 1992, pp. 73-86. ISBN: 2-85276-054-1.
“Péché et punition dans L’Abuseur de Séville”, Don Juan. Tirso, Molière, Pouchkine, Lenau. Analyses et synthèses sur un mythe littéraire, José Manuel Losada y Pierre Brunel (eds.), París, Klincksieck, 1993, pp. 7-22. ISBN: 2-252-02939-0.