Retracing Myth in A. S. Byatt’s Possession: A Romance
Abstract The article focuses on an interpretation of Possession: A Romance by A. S. Byatt as a reconstruction of the Western questing hero’s archetype. The protagonist, Roland Michell, embodies the rewriting of various literary heroes, alongside the correspondent scenarios of the texts they inhabit, throughout the narrative. In addition, the work considers Possession as an embodiment of the apocryphal text «The Key to All Mythologies», studying how Byatt collects different myths and texts that converge with Roland’s search, who is looking unknowingly for that cipher, the essence and truth that underlies each archetype.
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Byatt, A. S. «People in Paper Houses: Attitudes to “Realism” and “Experiment” in English Postwar Fiction». In Bradbury, Malcom and David Palmer (eds.). The Contemporary British Novel. London: Edward Arnold, 1980, pp. 19-41.
Campbell, Joseph. The Hero with a Thousand Faces. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1949.
Chinn, Nancy. «“I Am My Own Riddle” –A.S. Byatt’s Christabel LaMotte: Emily Dickinson and Melusina». Papers on Language and Literature, 2001, 37, 2, pp. 179-204.
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. «The Rime of the Ancient Mariner». In Appelbaum, Stanley (ed.). English Romantic Poetry. Mineola: Dover, 1996, pp. 63-81.
Colón, Susan E. «The Possession of Paradise: A.S. Byatt’s Reinscription of Milton». Christianity and Literature, 2003, 53, 1, pp. 77-97.
D’Arras, Jean. Mélusine. Ed. L. Stouff, Dijon: Bernigaud Priva, 1932. http«://txm.ish-lyon.cnrs.fr/bfm/pdf/melusine.pdf [23 February 2017].
Eliot, George. Middlemarch New York: The Century Library, 1910. https://archive.org/details/middlemarch00eliogoog [12 December 2017].
Franken, Christien. «Possession: Melusine or the Writer as Serpent Woman». In A. S. Byatt. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2001, pp. 83-108.
Hennelly, Mark M., Jr. «Repeating Patterns and Textual Pleasures: Reading A.S. Byatt’s Possession: A Romance». Contemporary Literature, 2003, 44, 3, pp. 442-471.
Hulbert, Ann. «The Great Ventriloquist: A.S. Byatt’s Possession: A Romance». In Hosmer, R. E., Jr. (ed.). Contemporary British Women Writers. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 1993, pp. 55-65.
Miller, Dean A. The Epic Hero. Baltimore; London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000.
Morgan, Clare. «Between Worlds: Iris Murdoch, A. S. Byatt, and Romance». In Saunders, Corinne (ed.). A Companion to Romance: From classical to Contemporary. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2004, pp. 502-520.
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Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm. The Will To Power. Trans. Walter Kauffman and R. J. Hollingdale. Ed. Walter Kauffman. New York: Vintage Books, 1968.
Platón. Diálogos iv: República. Trad. Conrado Eggers Lan. Madrid: Gredos, 1986.
Poe, Edgar Allan. «The Fall of the House of Usher». In The Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe. Vol. ii: Tales and Sketches. Ed. Thomas Ollive Mabbott, 1978, pp. 392-422. https://www.eapoe.org/works/mabbott/tom2t033.htm [15 December 2017].
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Sánchez, Victoria. «A. S. Byatt’s Possession: A Fairytale Romance». Southern Folklore, 1995, 52, 1, pp. 33-52.
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Botero Camacho, M., & Núñez Valeiras, M. (2018). Retracing Myth in A. S. Byatt’s Possession: A Romance. 1616: Anuario De Literatura Comparada, 7, 277–293. Retrieved from https://revistas.usal.es/dos/index.php/1616_Anuario_Literatura_Comp/article/view/18590
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