The Metamorphosis of the Mythic Double Self in "Kore-Persefona" by Ruxandra Cesereanu

  • Giovanni Magliocco Universitè degli Studi di Bari "Aldo Moro"
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5209/rev_AMAL.2011.v3.37533
Keywords: Myth, Double Self, Kore, Persephone, metamorphosis, identity, Hades, neurosis, delirionism

Abstract

In her work Kore-Persefona, published in 2004, the Romanian poet Ruxandra Cesereanu performs a postmodern rewriting of the mythic Double Self Kore-Persephone. This article aims at studying the metamorphosis of this myth and its symbolical meaning in Cesereanu’s poetry, in which Kore- Persephone represents the paradoxical metaphor of a Self mentally divided between sanity and neurosis.

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Magliocco G. (2011). The Metamorphosis of the Mythic Double Self in "Kore-Persefona" by Ruxandra Cesereanu. Amaltea. Revista de mitocrítica, 3, 47-71. https://doi.org/10.5209/rev_AMAL.2011.v3.37533
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Vol. 3 (2011): The Double Self
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Articles | Thematic Issue

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