{"title":"Mitos alquímicos y representaciones herméticas en el imaginario femenino de la sal","authors":"María Flores Fernández","doi":"10.5209/AMAL.71506","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5209/AMAL.71506","url":null,"abstract":"Partiendo de los estudios en imaginario bajo el prisma de la “mitodología”, introducida por Gilbert Durand en Figures mythiques et visages de l’œuvre (1979), este artículo atiende la transmutación femenina del medio como una alegoría alquímica, donde la sal y el agua han sido asociadas a lo largo de la historia al cuerpo femenino. La presente investigación propone elucidar cómo el paisaje y la mujer son comparables a partir de la unión de elementos espaciales, mitológicos y socio-culturales que, desde una perspectiva simbólica, hoy contribuyen a la definición del arquetipo mujer-agua en una dimensión hermética del paisaje salino. ","PeriodicalId":40412,"journal":{"name":"Amaltea-Revista de MitocrItica","volume":"43 1","pages":"5-16"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-04-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82600863","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"El imaginario como tótem","authors":"R. Moreno Rodríguez","doi":"10.5209/amal.66465","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5209/amal.66465","url":null,"abstract":"Bibliographic review of the book Hermes at the crossroads of Dr. Luis Alberto Perez Amezcua. This review has an approximate length of two thousand words and promptly follows the guidelines that you establish in your prestigious magazine.","PeriodicalId":40412,"journal":{"name":"Amaltea-Revista de MitocrItica","volume":"12 1","pages":"43-44"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2020-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49108484","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Mito y ciencia ficción desde la semántica ficcional","authors":"Eva Ariza Trinidad","doi":"10.5209/amal.66667","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5209/amal.66667","url":null,"abstract":"El presente artículo propone un análisis de los mitos y de la ciencia ficción desde la semántica ficcional, basado en el estudio de las estructuras de esos mundos posibles y las restricciones modales que las configuran a partir de las teorías de Thomas Pavel y Lubomír Doležel. El estudio revela que muchas obras de ciencia ficción prospectiva tienen una estructura propia de los mitos antiguos, también de carácter diádico y con dominios perfectamente demarcados, así como que las jerarquías de restricciones modales que las configuran son similares a las de los mitos antiguos.","PeriodicalId":40412,"journal":{"name":"Amaltea-Revista de MitocrItica","volume":"12 1","pages":"1-8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2020-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49102380","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"La invasión silenciosa de la tecnología inteligente. Una relectura de “Los caballos de Abdera” de L. Lugones","authors":"Gustavo Esparza, N. Bravo","doi":"10.5209/amal.66682","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5209/amal.66682","url":null,"abstract":"En el presente artículo se elucidan las fronteras epistemológicas entre el mito y la ciencia ficción dentro del cuento “Los caballos de Abdera” (Las Fuerzas extrañas). Se sostiene que la relectura mitológica desarrollada por Lugones en su cuento si bien no es ciencia ficción (CF), presenta un modelo de naturalización de los eventos fantásticos. En la primera parte se muestran las claves hermenéuticas de esta interpretación lugoniana resaltando la flexibilidad de los mitos para adaptarse a los modelos narrativos de diversas épocas; en la segunda parte, aprovechando la plasticidad del formato mítico, se analiza el proceso de habituación a través del cual se ha naturalizado el uso exagerado de la tecnología en nuestras prácticas diarias para con ello delinear uno de los tópicos recurrentes del género de la CF: las invasiones de seres extraños.","PeriodicalId":40412,"journal":{"name":"Amaltea-Revista de MitocrItica","volume":"60 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2020-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74390468","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Shifting the Mythic Discourse: Ambiguity and Destabilization in Joanne Kyger’s The Tapestry and the Web","authors":"Estíbaliz Encarnación-Pinedo","doi":"10.5209/amal.66717","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5209/amal.66717","url":null,"abstract":"The Homeric Penelope, long hailed as a feminist icon just as much as an example of submissive wife, has been the focus of numerous revisions and interpretations ranging from the reactionary to the most subversive. This article analyzes Joanne Kyger’s revision of the mythic discourse in The Tapestry and the Web (1965) by studying two of the main strategies used by the poet: subtle shifts of focus and the use of alternative sources. Building from Joseph Campbell’s concept of the monomyth, which gave the poet the aesthetic freedom to move within Homer’s text, the article examines Kyger’s use of the mythic discourse to undermine the prevalence of patriarchal narratives and question their position as established categories. Operating inside and outside the Homeric construct, Kyger’s collection perpetuates and subverts the classical myth in a move that anticipates contemporary – feminist – revisions and adaptations. ","PeriodicalId":40412,"journal":{"name":"Amaltea-Revista de MitocrItica","volume":"32 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2020-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87359785","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Alternativas para el fin del mundo: mito, destino trágico y ciencia ficción","authors":"Luis Alberto Pérez-Amezcua, E. Junco","doi":"10.5209/amal.66691","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5209/amal.66691","url":null,"abstract":"Proponemos una lectura de Terminator: Dark Fate, la más reciente entrega de una de las sagas cinematográficas más influyentes de la ciencia ficción contemporánea, y la contrastamos con el sentido del destino trágico clásico de Las troyanas, de Eurípides. A partir de la configuración del mitema de la madre protectora en las dos protagonistas (Hécuba / Sarah Connor), destacamos los mitemas que funcionan como nexos entre ambas protagonistas. Respetando las propiedades de cada género, observamos que la figura de la mujer-madre tiene una posición activa ante el destino con la cual define su tipo heroico y la suerte de su comunidad. Concluimos afirmando que la eficacia del mitema que sostiene el texto fílmico se asienta más en el paradigma mítico que en el científico.","PeriodicalId":40412,"journal":{"name":"Amaltea-Revista de MitocrItica","volume":"24 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2020-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72522184","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Evita: la Erinia argentina. La construcción del peronismo con letra femenina","authors":"C. Calabrese, Ethel Junco de Calabrese","doi":"10.5209/AMAL.62788","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5209/AMAL.62788","url":null,"abstract":"Proponemos una lectura de La razón de mi vida, a partir de la descripción del carácter de la narradora, de la justificación ante sus detractores y del afianzamiento de sus cualidades, propicias para la difusión de la causa política. En la configuración de Evita como personaje se potencian rasgos femeninos primitivos, sostenidos en la figura mítica de la Erinia. En la relación de características pretendemos mostrar la eficacia del paradigma mítico en la lógica doctrinal, que configura una matriz apta para exacerbar las potencias oprimidas del estatuto comunitario e inaugurar un modelo de justicia social.","PeriodicalId":40412,"journal":{"name":"Amaltea-Revista de MitocrItica","volume":"85 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2019-06-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78940914","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"After Death, Death: The Mechanics of Longing in Henry Carrington's «The Siren»","authors":"Marko Teodorski","doi":"10.5209/AMAL.62903","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5209/AMAL.62903","url":null,"abstract":"This essay deals with the mechanics of longing in a late Victorian siren poem by Henry Carrington, The Siren. Although Victorian literature was teeming with short stories, poems and novels on sirens, this genre, that builds upon and reverses Homeric siren tradition, remains neglected in literary discussions. With the translation of The Little Mermaid into English in 1872, the image of a \"longing siren\" was born. No longer were these the stories of Odysseus who had survived the siren song: now they were about the sirens’ own sorrows, griefs and desires. Sirens became profoundly human – they became desiring subjects themselves.","PeriodicalId":40412,"journal":{"name":"Amaltea-Revista de MitocrItica","volume":"76 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2019-06-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74536071","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Sumisas y perversas: los mitos sobre la mujer en «Las impuras» (1919), novela de Miguel de Carrión","authors":"R. Ramírez","doi":"10.5209/AMAL.64711","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5209/AMAL.64711","url":null,"abstract":"En este artículo examino el sustrato mitológico asociado a la mujer en la novela Las impuras (1919), del escritor cubano Miguel de Carrión. Los mitos de la fragilidad, la pasividad y la virginidad femeninas, y el de la mujer fatal, conforman la matriz intertextual en el componente mítico de esta novela que visibiliza, como parte de su mensaje estético, las problemáticas de la mujer cubana durante los primeros años del siglo XX. Desde una perspectiva mitocrítica con enfoque de género, valoro en esta obra cómo los aspectos simbólicos en la conformación antitética de la imago mujer están relacionados con el pensamiento sociocultural de la época.","PeriodicalId":40412,"journal":{"name":"Amaltea-Revista de MitocrItica","volume":"31 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2019-06-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78398730","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}