Myth and controversial character, Medea survives through time and through the arts and literature. Without gathering consensus, it continues to inspire contemporary writers, to which they return without rejecting it definitively. By allowing different approaches and new readings, more or less improbable, more or less unpublished, the myth of Medea not only does not end in literature but also acquires important interpretative possibilities dictated by the new era and sensibility in which emerges. In order to justify the actualility and timelessness of the mythic figure, we observe, in this study, the figurations of Medea in the works Sob o Olhar de Medeia by Fiama Hasse Pais Brandão, Desmesura – Exercício com Medeia by Hélia Correia and Medeia by Mário Cláudio, exploring the uniqueness of each re-reading of the myth, reinterpreted by three Portuguese contemporary authors from different literary records and worldviews.
- Myth
- Medea
- Comparative literature
- Contemporary literature
- Feminist studies
- Fiama Hasse Pais Brandão
- Hélia Correia
- Mário Cláudio
- Mestrado em Literatura Portuguesa
Figurações de Medeia na literatura portuguesa contemporânea
de Sousa Forte de Sá, D. A. (Student). 2012
Student thesis: Master's Thesis