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PROSENC ŠEGULA, Irena, ‘A Journey Towards Nothing’: Mythological Elements of Journey in If This Is a Man and The Drowned and the Saved by Primo Levi

Levi’s If This Is a Man and The Drowned and the Saved present complex relations to mythological elements, which are often filtered through Dante’s Divine Comedy and are inserted as key components into the autobiographical narration, thus giving it a mythological dimension. The scientific article proposes the triangular structure Levi-Dante-Ulysses as a basis for analysing the Jewish deportees’ journey towards Auschwitz as a journey towards the mythological other world.

COBISS.SI-ID: 44264034

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Greek Mythology in Statius: Dante, Harold Bloom, and the Limits of Political Psychology

This essay compares Dante’s literary invention of Statius as a covert Christian, and his interpretation of the Greek mythology of the Thebaid as a symptom of religious hypocrisy, with Bloomian approaches to Flavian epic, reading the Purgatory as an artistically powerful psychogram of ‘Silver’ Latin literature. As a dialectical alternative to that approach, the example of the unfinished Achilleid is used to question the value of political psychology as a tool of literary history.

COBISS.SI-ID: 43760994