The Substituted Child: Projections of a Mythical and Folkloric Motif in Literature and Cinema
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This article examines the motif of the substituted child, beginning with Classical mythology and legends about the fairy world, continuing through some literary examples from different historical moments, and finally the presence of this theme in some modern films. The article aims to examine how a continuity of this motif can be identified in a series of stories which, in the first instance, seem to have nothing in common, but which in some way reveal the presence of themes from ancient myths and beliefs, although with differences corresponding to social circumstances at the times when these themes appear. In any case, what runs through all of these examples is a concern with conflicts relating to maternity.
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Aguirre Castro, Mercedes. «Casarse con una hechicera: mito griego y tradición folklórica europea». Epos, 1996, 12, pp. 435-442.
Álvarez Peña, Alberto. Mitología asturiana. Gijón: Pieu Urriellu, 2001.
Ashliman, Dan L. «Changelings: an Essay», 1997 http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/changeling.html [consultado 8-5-2020].
Bettelheim, Bruno. The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales. London: Thames&Hudson, 1979.
Bettini, Maurizio. Nascere: storie di donne, donnole, madri ed eroi. Torino: Einaudi, 1998.
Bettini, Maurizio. Muñeca. Madrid: Casimiro, 2015.
Briggs, Katherine. The Fairies in Tradition and Literature. London: Routledge&Kegan Paul, 1967.
Briggs, Katherine. Diccionario de las hadas. Madrid: José J. de Olañeta, 2003.
Callejo Cabo, Jesús. Hadas. Guía de los seres mágicos de España. Madrid: Edaf, 1995.
Castellana, Riccardo. Stori di figli cambiati. Fate, demoni e sostituzioni magiche tra folklore e letteratura. Pisa: Pacini Editori, 2014.
Cavaliero, Glen. The Supernatural and English Fiction. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995.
Davidson, John. «Zeus and the Stone Substitute». Hermes, 1995, 123, pp. 363-369.
Doulet, Jean-Michel. Quand les démons enlevaient les enfants. Les changelings: étude d’une figure mythique. Paris: Presses de l’Université Paris-Sorbonne, 2003.
González-Posse, Maria Eugenia. Galatea’s Daughters. Dolls, Female Identity and the Material Imagination in Victorian Literature and Culture (Dissertation). The Ohio State University, 2012.
González-Rivas Fernández, Ana. «Reconstructing the Myth of Lamia in Modern Fiction: Stories of Motherhood, Miscarriage and Vengeance». The International Journal of the Humanities, 2018, 16:1, pp. 25-38.
González-Serrano, Pilar y Mercedes Aguirre. «Espíritus malignos, dragones y lamias». Más cerca de Grecia, 1997, 12, pp. 213-224.
Jones, Darryl. Sleeping with the lights on. The Unsettling Story of Horror. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018.
Kogel, Dennis y Iris Schaefer. «The Doppelg?nger motif in Science-Fiction film». En Georgi, S. y K. Loock (eds.). Of Body Snatchers and Cyberpunks: Student Essays on American Science-Fiction. Universit?t G?ttingen, 2011, pp. 125-141.
Latham, Minor White. The Elizabethan Fairies: The Fairies of Folklore and the Fairies of Shakespeare. Columbia University Press, 1930.
Oliphant, Samuel Grant. «The Story of the Strix: Ancient». Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association, 1913, vol. 44, pp. 133-149.
Purkiss, Diane. Troublesome Things: A History of Fairies and Fairy Stories. London: Penguin, 2001.
Schoon Eberly, Susan, «Fairies and the Folklore of Disability: Changelings, Hybrids and the Solitary Fairy». Folklore, 1988, 99:1, pp. 58-77.
Sherman, Sharon R. y Mikel J. Koven. Foklore/cinema: Popular Film as Vernacular Culture. Logan: Utah State University Press, 2007.
Shimokusu, Masaya. Fairy Ireland. A Literary History of «Changelings». Tokyo: Heibon-sha, 2005.
Slights, William E. «The Changeling in A Dream». Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900, 1988, vol. 18, n.º 2 (Spring), pp. 259-272.
Thompson, Stith. Motif -Index of Folk- Literature, 6 vols. Bloomington: IN, 1955-1958.
Vernant, Jean Pierre. Mythe et pensée chez les Grecs II. París: F. Maspero, 1965.
Versnel, Henk S. «Greek Myth and Ritual: The Case of Kronos». En Bremmer, Jan (ed.). Interpretations of Greek Mythology. Kent, 1985.
Warner, Marina. Fairy Tale. A Very Short Introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018.
Wilson, John Dover. Shakespeare’s Happy Comedies. London: Faber, 1962.
Winkler, Martin M. Classical Myth and Culture in the Cinema. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001.
The Substituted Child: Projections of a Mythical and Folkloric Motif in Literature and Cinema. (2022). 1616: Anuario de Literatura Comparada, 11, 163-180. https://doi.org/10.14201/1616202111163180
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