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retold and reinterpreted them in any form.. i recently completed a short
story reinterpreting the myth of orpheus and eurydice and enjoyed it quite a
bit. i've thought about doing the same with other myths, but would like to
discuss methods and anything else relating to doing so with other writers.
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Julie Fitzgerald
beowulf (like young hercules) merely for the commercial aspect, but
wondered if the idea is too much of a "me too". Also, I considered norse
myths and other viking stuff. but I sagree, the little I researched
proved it probably would have been a lot of fun.
Skip Press
>hi, i'm wondering if there's others out there who have taken greek myths and
>retold and reinterpreted them in any form.. i recently completed a short
>story reinterpreting the myth of orpheus and eurydice and enjoyed it quite a
>bit. i've thought about doing the same with other myths, but would like to
>discuss methods and anything else relating to doing so with other writers.
That guy Shakespeare used to do a bit of that.
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>hi, i'm wondering if there's others out there who have taken greek myths
and
>retold and reinterpreted them in any form.. i recently completed a short
>story reinterpreting the myth of orpheus and eurydice and enjoyed it quite
a
>bit. i've thought about doing the same with other myths, but would like to
>discuss methods and anything else relating to doing so with other writers.
<smile> You and I are in good company: CS Lewis' phenomenal book "Till we
have faces" was based on the myth of Eros and Psyche.
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Julie Fitzgerald <fit...@Home.com> wrote in message
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>I was going to do a reinterpretation of beowulf, maybe like young
>beowulf (like young hercules) merely for the commercial aspect, but
>wondered if the idea is too much of a "me too". Also, I considered norse
>myths and other viking stuff. but I sagree, the little I researched
>proved it probably would have been a lot of fun.
>
Michael Crichton did do something like this with "Beowulf". He wrote a book
called "Eaters of the Dead". The great thing about the book is how he did
it.
He wrote it as a scholar interpreting a recently unearthed work written by
one Ibn Fadlan from Bagdhad around 900 A.D. This man was on a diplomatic
mission for his king to the wild Northern tribes. He runs into a band of
Vikings and they end up taking him along with them on their quest: a
response to a friend's plea for help, the slaying of the terrible mist
monster.
It was very well done. It seemed like a real document for the first part of
the book. He even includes all kinds of footnotes to scholarly works (all
false, of course) to substantiate the story. I didn't even realize it was
"Beowulf" until about half the way through it.
Check it out. Crichton explains in the later editons of the book why he
wrote it and the reactions to it when it came out. Very good example of a
writing exercise.
Huck
Skip Press
In article <7dreec$6ts$1...@nnrp1.dejanews.com>, Japhy Ryder
<beav...@mrs.umn.edu> wrote:
>see, that's just not very constructive.. thanks for trying though.
>
>-japhy ryder, dharma bum
>
>In article
><skippress-300...@pool018-max6.ds22-ca-us.dialup.earthlink.net>,
> skip...@earthlink.net (Skip Press) wrote:
>> In article <7dp65k$7tj$1...@nnrp1.dejanews.com>, japhy...@my-dejanews.com
>wrote:
>>
>> >hi, i'm wondering if there's others out there who have taken greek myths and
>> >retold and reinterpreted them in any form.. i recently completed a short
>> >story reinterpreting the myth of orpheus and eurydice and enjoyed it quite a
>> >bit. i've thought about doing the same with other myths, but would like to
>> >discuss methods and anything else relating to doing so with other writers.
>>
Julie Fitzgerald
definitely have to read it.
Alan Hope
Huckleberry <jtwi...@redshift.com> wrote in article
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> Michael Crichton did do something like this with "Beowulf". He
wrote a book
> called "Eaters of the Dead". The great thing about the book is how
he did
> it.
[snip]
> It was very well done. It seemed like a real document for the first
part of
> the book. He even includes all kinds of footnotes to scholarly
works (all
> false, of course) to substantiate the story. I didn't even realize
it was
> "Beowulf" until about half the way through it.
Borges rip-off.
AH
Neale Talbot
writer/director/actor/artist/architect... and there's also a lot of interpretations
of his retelling of the story in opera, film & stage.
The most common Greek myth to get an outing is definately Pygmallion, which you
probably know best as My Fair Lady (Shaw)/Pretty Woman/She's all That (etc). Almost
every romantic comedy from Hollywood is a Pygmallion story. By far and away the
most popular.
Other goodies include
Midas, which ended up as a fairy-tale.
The Odessey, which has beeen Opera, film, cartoon, and many a book (take a look at
"Ulysses" by James Joyce).
Also, peek at Victorian Poetry, esp from Europe. Heavy emphasis on the
mythological.
-Neale Talbot