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MYTH
AND ART RE-VISITED |
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December 18-19, 2019 Didaskaleio
Neas Ellinikis Glossas [Modern Greek Language School] Panepistimioupoli
Zografou [Zografou
University Campus] The National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece |
CALL FOR PAPERS
The power of myth in
art lies not in their literal truth but what they say about us, how they give
our life meaning and restore our sense of identity (Andrew Neuendorf,
Contemporary Mythology, 2013)
This international two-day conference
hosted by the Department of English Language and Literature, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, seeks to explore from a comparativist and interdisciplinary perspective the
relationship between classical myth and art as a “revisiting,” or rereading, by
other means, of the mythical narratives provided to us by traditional
scholarship from a later framework. Such a framework encompasses a wide
spectrum, from classical artistic revisitings of myth
to contemporary reworkings, reappropriations,
and contestations of mythical tropes and figures; from Aeschylus’
transformation of the trickster Prometheus into a figure of sagacious
rebelliousness in drama to the appearance of classical divinities in early
Christian frescos, to Shakespeare’s demystifcation of
the heroic warrior allure in Troilus and
Cressida, to Lessing’s extrapolations on plastic art in Laokoon, to the cultural
ramifications of Goya’s “Saturn Devouring His Son” or Dalí’s
“Metamorphosis of Narcissus”, to the nationalist claim for a mythologized
Alexander the Great in the Balkan peninsula. Papers are invited on topics related,
but not limited, to:
·
Myth as a topic in
art
·
Art and the artist as
mythical subjects
·
The myth of the
artist-creator
·
Myth-criticism in art
·
The artefact as myth
and as bearer of myth
·
Classical myths,
newer myths and artistic identity
·
The representation of
myth and visual arts
·
Authorship, spectatorship
and subjectivity in myth and art
·
Race, myth and art
·
Gender, myth and art
·
Monumental recontextualization of myth
·
False idols: the
impossibility of depiction/the ineluctability of self-depiction
·
Theorizing the
relationship of transference and interbreeding between myth and art
·
Pedagogical uses of
art in the teaching of the classics
Confirmed Keynote speakers:
Professor Judith Barringer,
Department of Classics, the University of Edinburgh
Professor Mary Koutsoudaki, Department
of English Language and Literature, National and Kapodistrian
University of Athens
Applicants are invited to submit a 300-word abstract,
accompanied by a 50-word biographical note, by July 31st to both cdokou@enl.uoa.gr and vmarkidou@enl.uoa.gr. You will be notified of a decision by mid-September.
There will be no registration fee for this
conference.
Organizers:
Dr. Christina Dokou, Assistant
Professor of American Literature and Culture
Dr. Vassiliki Markidou, Assistant Professor of English Literature and
Culture