Abstract

GALLARDO, Carmen. From Narrator's to Reader's Point of View: Love and Violence, and the Subversion of Myth in the Work by Lourdes Ortiz. UH [online]. 2016, n.282, pp. 21-31. ISSN 0253-9276.

This paper aims at examining how Greco-Roman myths are used by Lourdes Ortiz in her dramatic work to express the tension between love and violence which pervades human relations. The stories of Achilles and Penthesilea, Circe and Penelope, as recreated by the author, enable us to see that today, just as back then, this tension continues to cause frustration, injustice and destruction. This is due to an understanding of love manly related to ideas of possession and dominance, and not as the relationship between free and equal individuals.

Keywords : Odyssey; Greco-Roman myths; reception; rewrite.

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