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Title of Article

THE INTERPRETATION OF THE ANCIENT MYTH OF ORPHEUS AND EURYDICE IN S. RUSHDIE'S NOVEL «THE GROUND BENEATH HER FEET»


Issue
6
Date
2014

Article type
scientific article
UDC
82-343.4
Pages
205-208
Keywords
myth, Orpheus, Eurydice, post-modernism, S. Rushdie, motive


Authors
Koroleva O.A.
Nizhegorodskiy gosudarstvennyy universitet im. N.I. Lobachevskogo


Abstract
The article examines some peculiarities of the functioning of the myth of Orpheus in the post-modern novel byRushdie «The Ground Beneath Her Feet». The author addresses the issue of the novel's main motives: the motive of music and the motive of love, through the prism of which the nature of creative work, the artist's psychology and his role in modern society are analysed.

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