Личният мит на Пинелопи С. Делта
The personal myth of Penelope Delta

Author(s): Mariya Hristova
Subject(s): Studies of Literature
Published by: ЮГОЗАПАДЕН УНИВЕРСИТЕТ »НЕОФИТ РИЛСКИ«
Keywords: personal myth; historical fiction for young adults; Byzantine-Bulgarian wars
Summary/Abstract: This paper is based on Joseph Campbell’s concept of personal myth, i.e. theidea that “every individual is the center of a mythology of his own”. It comments on theGreek author Penelope Delta, her life and work taken from a mythopoeic point of view. Anemphasis is placed on her best loved novels set in Byzantium - For Our Country (1909) andIn the Time of the Bulgar-Slayer (1911), as well as on the construction of their Bulgariancharacters.

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