Amaltea. Revista de Mitocrítica

Disidencias sexo-genéricas y mitología clásica en La mala costumbre

Laura Olimpia Varone-Negro — 2026-02-11

This article analyzes the representation of sex-gender dissidences in the novel Bad Habit (2023) by Alana S. Portero, from a queer and transfeminist perspective. Through a mythocritical approach, it examines the connections between certain characters in the novel and figures from Greco-Roman mythology, in order to understand how these parallels contribute to the reconfiguration of traditional narratives. This study focuses exclusively on the characters who maintain an explicit link with this mythological imaginary. The article also explores the symbolic and poetic charge of the novel as a means of constructing new forms of identity.

The voice that Drowns Pygmalion: Classical Myth under Madeline Miller's Revisionism

María de la Luz García Fleitas — 2026-03-23

The present study focuses on the short story Galatea (2013) by Madeline Miller, a rewriting of the myth of Pygmalion as told by Ovid in his Metamorphoses. The study has aimed to analyze, from the perspective of Classical Reception studies, the strategies followed by the author to subvert the myth, which allows us to reflect on her supposed revisionist approach ( Ostriker 1982). From the analysis, it can be inferred that the myth is used as a vindicating tool, an object of resistance through which it is possible to reexamine both Classical Antiquity—which has played a relevant role in the construction and legitimation of patriarchal discourse—as well as our present.

Puck Through Time: Myth, Theatre, and Scenic Reinterpretations in A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Alejandro Amores Sánchez — 2026-05-19

This article analyzes the figure of Puck from a mythocritical, historical, and performative perspective, examining both his folkloric origins and his reinterpretation in contemporary stage and audiovisual adaptations. Drawing on medieval sources documenting the Anglo-Saxon puca, the study traces the process that transforms this ambiguous being into the dramatic character shaped by Shakespeare in A Midsummer Night’s Dream. The analysis focuses on three interpretations: Michael Hoffman’s film (1999), Tamzin Townsend’s theatrical adaptation (2007), and Julie Taymor’s stage production (2013). The study argues that the myth of Puck is continually reactivated through different performance languages, reflecting broader aesthetic, ideological, and cultural transformations.

Poetry, dramaturgy and counterwriting in La soledad de Asterión by Santiago de Luca

Aluned Moreno del Cristo — 2026-02-11

La soledad de Asterión: pieza teatral en nueve curvas (2019), by the Argentine writer Santiago de Luca, rewrites the myth of the Minotaur in contemporary Latin American theater. This play establishes explicit links with the work of Borges and possesses a poetic tone in many passages, evident through the use of various literary devices and metaphorical language. This relationship is also evident in the way De Luca delves into the subjectivity of the Minotaur. Thus, the objective of this essay is to analyze the connections that can be found between the work of Santiago de Luca and that of Borges, in order to elucidate to what extent the interconnection between literary genres and counter-scriptural procedures allow the contemporary play to carry out a creative transformation of the myth and, at the same time, productively dialogue with Borges’s work.

Digital mythic genealogies in patriarchal Anglophone horror narratives: feminine hybris and Wiki-oracle nemesis in Annora Petrova creepypasta

Sergio Yagüe-Pasamón — 2026-05-18

This paper explores Annora Petrova epistolary creepypasta as a gender technology that conceptualises feminine agency as a communal threat. The intersection of myth-critical analysis and feminist close reading allows mapping recurrent mythemes and constellations, as Genesis Eve’s access to forbidden knowledge, the hybris ascent and nemesis corrective punishment. The Wiki-oracle embodies an authorised truth regime that prescribes an inescapable punitive end. Femininity’s self-incriminating voice operates as biopower ventriloquism to legitimise the cruelty pedagogy of violence against femininity, the stigmatisation and ostracism of the scapegoat, and the expulsion from paradise. Thus, canonical Anglophone viral narratives endure disciplinary mythemes.

Cuny, Diane y Perrot, Arnaud (eds.). Suites d’Homère de l’Antiquité à la Renaissance. Turnhout (Belgique). Brepols Publishers, Recherches sur les Réceptions de l’Antiquité, 2024, 371 pp. ISBN. 978-2-503-60755-9.

Pere Bescós — 2026-02-11