{"title":"APARICIÓN DE LA LAGUNA INVISIBLE: LA LLORONA EN HOMBRE AL AGUA DE FABRIZIO MEJÍA MADRID","authors":"E. D. Castro","doi":"10.5209/REV_AMAL.2014.V6.46517","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5209/REV_AMAL.2014.V6.46517","url":null,"abstract":"Mexico City used to be seated on water. Over time, desiccation policies have changed the landscape and resulted in the virtual loss of all water traces. The goddess Cihuacoatl, Aztec mother goddess and a snake woman who had, among other dwellings, the lagoon, has been seen since pre-Hispanic times as a maiden dressed in white who cries loudly over the mysterious loss of her children. This character has mutated over the years, but it still lives in the city’s archetypes. She reappears in Fabrizio Mejia Madrid’s novel Man Overboard. This figure, mixed with the female character of the narrative, serves the function of confronting the city’s past with its present; it also deepens, through the subjectivity of the characters, into the various meanings of the lost water in Mexico City and the emptiness it has left in its inhabitants.","PeriodicalId":40412,"journal":{"name":"Amaltea-Revista de MitocrItica","volume":"6 1","pages":"83-110"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2014-09-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.5209/REV_AMAL.2014.V6.46517","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70734035","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":"“L’appel de la Sirène ou le chant nostalgique des origines: le thème de la féminité « monstrueuse » dans \"Le ravissement\" d’Andrée A. Michaud","authors":"Vicky Montambault","doi":"10.5209/REV_AMAL.2014.V6.46524","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5209/REV_AMAL.2014.V6.46524","url":null,"abstract":"“L’appel de la Sirene ou le chant nostalgique des origines : le theme de la feminite « monstrueuse » dans \"Le ravissement\" d’Andree A. Michaud","PeriodicalId":40412,"journal":{"name":"Amaltea-Revista de MitocrItica","volume":"6 1","pages":"247-257"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2014-09-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.5209/REV_AMAL.2014.V6.46524","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70733804","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":"TRANSATLANTIC MERMAIDS: LITERARY AND CULTURAL FANTASIES FROM COPENHAGEN TO HAITI AND THE UNITED STATES","authors":"B. Nies","doi":"10.5209/REV_AMAL.2014.V6.46527","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5209/REV_AMAL.2014.V6.46527","url":null,"abstract":"Transatlantic Mermaids: Literary and Cultural Fantasies from Copenhagen to Haiti and the United States","PeriodicalId":40412,"journal":{"name":"Amaltea-Revista de MitocrItica","volume":"6 1","pages":"305-327"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2014-09-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.5209/REV_AMAL.2014.V6.46527","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70733873","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":"PORTRAIT MYTHIQUE D'UN GÉNIE DE L'EAU. LA FÉMINITÉ POLYMORPHE DANS L'ŒUVRE DE V. VOICULESCU","authors":"Linda Maria Baros","doi":"10.5209/REV_AMAL.2014.V6.46515","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5209/REV_AMAL.2014.V6.46515","url":null,"abstract":"Portrait mythique d’un genie de l’eau. La feminite polymorphe dans l’œuvre de V. Voiculescu","PeriodicalId":40412,"journal":{"name":"Amaltea-Revista de MitocrItica","volume":"6 1","pages":"27-52"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2014-09-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.5209/REV_AMAL.2014.V6.46515","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70733950","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 sirena como figura de la desdicha en la literatura contemporánea de lengua española","authors":"Catherine D´Humières","doi":"10.5209/REV_AMAL.2014.V6.46519","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5209/REV_AMAL.2014.V6.46519","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40412,"journal":{"name":"Amaltea-Revista de MitocrItica","volume":"6 1","pages":"145-159"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2014-09-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.5209/REV_AMAL.2014.V6.46519","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70733670","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":"RELATOS Y RITUALIDADES EN TORNO AL LAGOMUJER. PRÁCTICAS FESTIVAS Y NARRATIVAS EN ZIRAHUÉN","authors":"Berenice Vazquez","doi":"10.5209/REV_AMAL.2014.V6.46518","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5209/REV_AMAL.2014.V6.46518","url":null,"abstract":"The lake of Zirahuen (Michoacan, Mexico) is home to rituals that underlie the narratives and festivities of the inhabitants of the coastal villages. This paper combines fieldwork materials with ethnographic and historical sources to explain the different meanings of the cultural complex woman-lake, which may be understood as a geographical element and as a mythical construction embodied by two figures, the jicara (gourd) and the siren.","PeriodicalId":40412,"journal":{"name":"Amaltea-Revista de MitocrItica","volume":"1 1","pages":"111-144"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2014-09-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.5209/REV_AMAL.2014.V6.46518","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70734050","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":"Las \"rusalki\", ¿ninfas eslavas de las aguas?","authors":"F. Moreno","doi":"10.5209/REV_AMAL.2014.V6.46523","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5209/REV_AMAL.2014.V6.46523","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper we shall deal with the habitat of the ‘rusalki’, according to contemporary sources of Eastern Slavic oral tradition. Through a selection of such sources, which we offer translated into Spanish, we shall see how in certain regions of Russia, Ukraine, and Byelorussia, it is still believed that the places where the ‘rusalki’ can be seen vary according to the seasons and even the hours of the day. This variation, already attested in earlier sources, makes an important difference among ‘rusalki’ and nymphs, although the first scholars dealing with Slavic mythology tried to define the ‘rusalki’ as Slavic nymphs.","PeriodicalId":40412,"journal":{"name":"Amaltea-Revista de MitocrItica","volume":"6 1","pages":"219-246"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2014-09-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.5209/REV_AMAL.2014.V6.46523","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70733763","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":"“Ars amatoria bayaliana. Reescritura de las nínfulas en \"Mísera fue, señora, la osadía\"","authors":"A. Revilla","doi":"10.5209/REV_AMAL.2014.V6.46516","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5209/REV_AMAL.2014.V6.46516","url":null,"abstract":"This article explores Misera fue, senora, la osadia; we analyze the strong use of intertextuality and, in particular, mythological references. In this novel Gonzalo Hidalgo Bayal displays his mastery in his role as the transmitter and privileged link in the continuum of literary tradition, introducing variations in the mythological character of the nymphs, where tradition melts the features of the Greco-Latin sirens and lamias accordingly with the author’s time and his readers’ sensitivity.","PeriodicalId":40412,"journal":{"name":"Amaltea-Revista de MitocrItica","volume":"6 1","pages":"53-81"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2014-09-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.5209/REV_AMAL.2014.V6.46516","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70733967","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":"Presencia del mito de la sirena en la poesía española contemporánea","authors":"Eva Álvarez Ramos","doi":"10.5209/REV_AMAL.2014.V6.46514","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5209/REV_AMAL.2014.V6.46514","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40412,"journal":{"name":"Amaltea-Revista de MitocrItica","volume":"6 1","pages":"1-26"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2014-09-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.5209/REV_AMAL.2014.V6.46514","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70734087","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":"Las troyanas de Ciudad Madera: treno y tragedia en \"Las mujeres del alba\", de Carlos Montemayor","authors":"Ricardo Vigueras Fernández","doi":"10.5209/REV_AMAL.2014.V6.46531","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5209/REV_AMAL.2014.V6.46531","url":null,"abstract":"Las troyanas de Ciudad Madera: treno y tragedia en \"Las mujeres del alba\", de Carlos Montemayor","PeriodicalId":40412,"journal":{"name":"Amaltea-Revista de MitocrItica","volume":"6 1","pages":"367-386"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2014-09-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.5209/REV_AMAL.2014.V6.46531","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70734165","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}