The importance of myth in contemporary art: myth, poetry and women
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Date
2013-07
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Coso Molina, Diana
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Universitat de Lleida
Facultat de Lletres
Bureu, Nela
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This project is intended to prove the prevalent importance of myth in contemporary art
and, more specifically, to highlight how myth and poetry have shaped and reflected
ideas of womanhood over time. A selection of significant literary periods, authors and
works from the Renaissance to our days have been chosen in order to provide a wide
scope of the evolution that the portrayal of women has undergone. Special attention has
been paid to the way in which a group of selected poets have contributed to the
construction and deconstruction of traditional Judeo-Christian and Greco-Roman myths
strongly attached to patterns of male dominance.