The volume is the first in the series Interdisciplinary Studies on Philology, edited by Habib Tekin (Marmara University) and Irem Atasoy (Istanbul University). The anonymously double peer-reviewed series is committed to advancing research that engages language, literature, and culture in interdisciplinary perspective. By combining textual analysis with wider cultural theory, historical context, and comparative reflection, the series supports scholarship that works across conventional boundaries while remaining attentive to the material, linguistic, and philological foundations of meaning.
We also express gratitude to the authors for their contributions and the effort they dedicated to the development of this volume. Appreciation is also extended to the reviewers whose expertise shaped the quality and coherence of the final collection. With Mythological Motifs in Narratives, the series opens with a volume that invites further study.
Table of Contents
Introduction: Mythological Motifs Reimagined
Irem Atasoy, Istanbul University, Istanbul, Türkiye
Visualizing the Wild Woman Legend in Medieval and Early Modern Text and Image
Michelle Moseley-Christian, School of Visual Arts, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States
‘Destroyed Arcadia’ in Horst Stern’s Klint (1993)
Bidyum Medhi, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA
Here Be Dragons: The Representation of Myth in the Godzilla Franchise
Dalton Cooper, University of Texas at Dallas, Texas, United States
Greek Mythology and The Book of Genesis: Myths in Dialogue on the Creation of Man and His Fall
Ching-Ching Chiu, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
Mythology and Ecology in Chambers’s Solarpunk Vision
Willow Sipling, Western Michigan University, United States
Medea’s Feminist Reclamation from Tragic Villain to Heroic Subject in Classical Greek Tragedy and Modern Japanese Media
Mengyi Li, Ludwig Maximilians Universität München, Munich, Germany
Nightmare Aesthetics: Hybridising the figure of the vulture in Promethean Myth with Ozark Folkore to illustrate trauma
Constantine Blintzios, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom
Die Dekonstruktion des Mythos der Antike durch die Wiederbelebung des Mythos von Kassandra
Filareti Karkalia, Universität Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany
Medusas Rückkehr: Arbeit am Mythos im Chthuluzän
Jann Amos Blodau, European University Viadrina, Frankfurt (Oder), Germany
Sounds of Female Metamorphoses as Poetic Liberation: Ovid’s Myths of Daphne and Sibyl Reinterpreted in Anja Utler’s Poems from
münden – entzüngeln
Tim Griffel, University of Hamburg, Germany
The Untold Life Cycles of the Phoenix: From Myth to Oral Tradition to Pop Culture
Janin Pisarek, Germany
Reconstructing Myths: The Folklore Gaze in Contemporary Taiwanese Art
Xiaozhu Zhuang, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
Georgian and Sumerian Imaginations about a Sacred Tree
Zeinab Kikvidze, Akaki Tsereteli State University, Kutaisi, Georgia
Die Heldenreise in Star Wars: Joseph Campbells Monomythos in der modernen Mythologie des Kinos
Gulru Bayraktar, Alanya Alaaddin Keykubat University, Alanya, Türkiye
Trojanische Mythen bei Friedrich von Schiller
Elisabeth Scheele, Université Paris IV, Paris, France
