Myth and Subversion in the Contemporary Novel 2012

Book Review Myth and Subversion in the Contemporary Novel by Jose-Ma Losada-Goya; Free EBook Download

Myth and Subversion in the Contemporary Novel help us explain the subversive rewriting of ancient, medieval, and modern myths in old novels. With 545 pages published on May 1, 2012, the book was published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing with author Jose-Ma Losada-Goya, which sold for 55 euros.

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Myth and Subversion in the Contemporary Novel, which includes the top 37 articles selected from 200 pieces by great scholars worldwide.

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Abstract

The late twentieth and early twenty first centuries have seen a resurgence of the golem in several major American novels. What factors might lead to such a reimagining of the golem in American fiction? Cynthia Ozick’s The  Puttermesser Papers (1997) and Thane Rosenbaum’s The Golems of Gotham (2002) re-invent golems no longer anchored in vengeance but in healing, as vehicles for the kabbalistic notion of Tikkun Olam (“repairing the world”). Ozick creates the first female golem to help the lonely protagonist become a reformist mayor; in The Golems of Gotham, the golem is transformed into a team of literary golems who storm Manhattan not only to heal the grief-stricken protagonist but to cure a city from injustices. In these two novels, the golem is updated as a crusader who addresses both the ills of citizens and a collective fin de siècle melancholy.

Keywords

Golem, Cynthia Ozick, Thane Rosenbaum, The Puttermesser Papers, The Golems of Gotham, Kabala, fin de siècle melancholy, Jewish-American fiction, New York.

Título

Los Golems toman Nueva York: el resurgimiento del Golem en las obras de Cynthia Ozick y Thane Rosenbaum
Resumen A finales del siglo XX y principios del XXI, el personaje del Golem resurge en muchas novelas americanas importantes. ¿Por qué? Las novelas Los papeles de Puttermesser, de Cynthia Ozick, y Los Golems de Gotham, de Thane Rosembaum, son ejemplos de una reinvención del golem como criatura que puede curar a toda la sociedad, no solo ayudar a los judíos. Ozick crea un golem mujer (sin precedentes

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