Theseus and the Minotaur is a four movement, through-composed chamber work for flute, clarinet, violin, viola, cello, and double bass. The work explores elements of fear, chaos, love, and aggression.

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Walking in the house of Daedalus – An analysis of the katabasis motif in Mark Z. Danielewski’s House of Leaves   This study analyses the depiction of the labyrinth as a symbolic landscape in regard to both subject and form in the multi-layered novel House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski. Using the mythological katabasis motif as a structural principle, this study discusses modern labyrinthine narratives wherein selfhood is constructed through an infernal journey between a descent and a return. This study analyses the novel with a thematic perspective from two points of view; how the labyrinth acts as central motif for the self in the novel and how the novel visually depicts the narrative through typographical choices throughout the text. The study’s main question is how the novel depicts the labyrinth in regard to its historical and cultural context and how it inscribes itself into a tradition of narratives that depicts the labyrinth as a metaphor for the mind and as a symbol for the exploration of the self.   The result shows that House of Leaves uses a complex cluster of narratives to tell a katabatic story, both through the narrative and the form. Through the symbolic landscape and through the use of a genre typical and uncanny horror story, House of Leaves tells a story about alienation, guilt and love where the characters psychological developments changes in regard to confrontations with the labyrinth and through the symbolical tests that exists throughout the katabatic journey. The characters ascends traumatized from the labyrinth, but are at the same time rewarded with personal insight

El objetivo general de nuestro trabajo pasa por ocuparse de la figura del minotauro en las reelaboraciones propuestas por Borges, con su cuento “La casa de Asterión”, y por Cortázar, con su pieza teatral Los reyes, en relación a los conceptos de monstruosidad y otredad y a la ética del humanismo del otro hombre presentada por Levinas. Se trata de un estudio comparativo en donde se analizará tanto el mito clásico del minotauro como también estas dos versiones surgidas al sur del continente americano. Las preguntas de investigación apuntan, por un lado, al interés por los géneros literarios escogidos por los autores argentinos en cuanto condición de posibilidad para la creación de sus minotauros humanizados. Por el otro, a la posición marginal a la que, en principio, la otredad monstruosa queda relegada. Por último, a la inversión producida con sus refinadísimas construcciones estéticas, en las cuales el minotauro es reconocido y en donde creemos ver un llamado de atención a la sociedad para hacerse responsable de los monstruos que crea. / The principal objective of this research is to investigate the minotaur´s portrait in the reinterpretations proposed by Borges, in his short story entitled “The House of Asterion”, and by Cortázar, in his play The Kings. The comparison is made in relation to the concepts of monstrosity and otherness and the ethics of humanism of the Other presented by Levinas. This is a comparative study that aims to analyze the classical myth of the minotaur and the two versions that emerged simultaneously in South America. The research questions refer, first, to the interest in the literary genres chosen by the Argentinian authors that prepare the ground for the creation of humanized minotaurs. Second, to the marginal position to which the monster is relegated. Finally, to the inversion produced in their aesthetic constructions, where the minotaur is recognized and would later becomea wake-up call to society to take responsibility for the monsters it creates.

La mythologie place l’homme face à la temporalité de l’existence. La littérature permet d’appréhender cette temporalité tout en la densifiant à travers l’art. Le motif récurrent du labyrinthe et la figure du Minotaure qui lui est indéfectiblement attachée dévoilent les liens inextricables de l’écriture, du mythe et de la lecture. Le roman de l’écrivain québécois Jean Barbe, paru en 2004 : Comment devenir un Monstre a réactualisé la figure du Minotaure et a maintenu ce fil d’Ariane jusque dans son dernier roman : Le Travail de l’huître, en développant ses deux facettes : monstruosité et labyrinthe. Cette remémoration littéraire des mythèmes Minotaure et Labyrinthe apparaît dans d’autres ouvrages québécois contemporains notamment depuis les années soixante. Elle révèle à la fois la plasticité formelle du mythe, car il se fait jour dans des ouvrages de styles littéraires différents, et dégage des constantes littéraires qui pourraient être liées spécifiquement au corpus québécois. Hubert Aquin et Gilbert La Rocque développent des écritures caractérisées par des mouvements labyrinthiques et des thématiques éclairant ce propos. D‘autres auteurs aux écritures différentes permettent d’essayer de démontrer la prégnance et l’adaptabilité de ce mythe tant du point de vue du signifiant que du signifié : R.Ducharme, G.Bessette, R.Lalonde, M.Tremblay, J. Renaud, Y.Thériault, complètent ainsi l’étude. Des auteurs féminins apportent un autre point de vue : Aude, M.C. Blais, A. Hébert, S. Jacob, G. Roy, avec les voix de la jeunesse : A. Dandurand, J. Hétu, M.H. Poitras. G. Soucy assure également la relève ainsi que J.F Beauchemin, Biz, Louis Hamelin et S.Trudel qui mettent en scène ce mythe de façon singulière et significative. La figure du Minotaure par la représentation concrète de son ambivalence peut-elle saisir les spécificités de la littérature québécoise contemporaine marquée par la fracture historique? Le labyrinthe, attaché indéfectiblement au Minotaure, tour à tour efface ou fait ressurgir le monstre innommable, l’invisible rejoint alors l’indicible. / Mythology brings human being to face the temporality of existence. Literature allows to grasp this temporality in making it dense through art. The recurrent motif of the Labyrinth and the Minotaur’s figure which is its indefectible tie reveal the inextricable bounds between writing, myth and reading. Quebecer author Jean Barbe’s novel 2004: Comment devenir un Monstre actualised the Minotaur’s figure and this Ariane’s thread was maintained until his last novel : Le Travail de l’huître, expanding its two sides : monstruosity and labyrinth. This literary remembrance of the mythemes Minotaur and Labyrinth becomes evident in other contemporaneous quebecer works especially since the sixties. It both reveals the formal plasticity of the myth, for it appears in novels from various literary styles, and show some literary constants which could specifically be linked to the quebecer corpus. Hubert Aquin and Gilbert La Rocque develop writings characterized by labyrinthine movements and themes shining a light on this topic. Other writers with different ways of writing allow to try and display the weight and adaptability of the myth both in the significans and the signification. R. Ducharme, G. Bessette, R. Lalonde, M. Tremblay, J. Renaud, Y. Thériault, complete the study in this manner. Feminine authors bring another point of vue : Aude, M.C. Blais, A. Hébert, S. Jacob, G. Roy, with the voices of youth : A. Dandurand, J. Hétu, M.H. Poitras. G. Soucy also succeed to them along with J.F Beauchemin, Biz, Louis Hamelin et S. Trudel who stage this myth in a singular and significant way. Can the Minotaur figure, through concrete representation of its own ambivalence, catch the specificities of a contemporary quebecer literature, branded by a historical split? The Labyrinth, indefectibly tied to the Minotaur, in turn vanishes or brings forth the nameless monster, the unutterable thus joining the invisible.

Cette thèse présente une étude mythocritique de la production romanesque de Manuel de Lope [1949] postérieure à son retour en Espagne en 1993 et jusqu’à aujourd’hui : El libro de piel de tiburón (Alfaguara,1995); Bella en las tinieblas (Alfaguara,1997), (Suma de Letras, 2000), (RBA, 2010) ; Las perlas peregrinas (Espasa-Calpe,1998), (RBA, 2007) ;
 La sangre ajena (Editorial Debate, 2000); Otras islas (RBA, 2008). En effet, un séjour de vingt-cinq ans hors d’Espagne lui a permis d’exercer un regard extérieur et fécond sur son propre pays où désormais, il vit et écrit. Son œuvre romanesque recourt aux mythes antiques pour développer les thématiques essentielles dans l’Espagne de ce début de XXI ème siècle que sont la mémoire et l’oubli face à l’Histoire, la quête identitaire à travers les mythes du labyrinthe, du caïnisme, de Dionysos, de Saturne et de Chronos. Tous ces mythes s’organisent autour d’un mythe dominant, celui de Chronos, grâce à une image phare qui éclaire l’identité collective espagnole, image déjà présente dans l’ œuvre goyesque : celle de Saturne dévorant ses fils. / This thesis presents a mythocritical analysis of the novels written by Manuel de Lope (born in 1949) from 1993, when he returned home to Spain, until nowadays: El libro de piel de tiburón (Alfaguara,1995); Bella en las tinieblas (Alfaguara,1997), (Suma de Letras, 2000), (RBA, 2010) ; Las perlas peregrinas (Espasa-Calpe,1998), (RBA, 2007) ;
 La sangre ajena (Editorial Debate, 2000); Otras islas (RBA, 2008). As he had stayed away from Spain for twenty-five years, he was able to look with an external and creative perspective at his own country where he is now living and writing. In his fiction he resorts to ancient myths in order to develop the themes which are essential in the Spain of the early 21st century: memory and obliviousness as regards history as well as the search for identity through the myths of the Labyrinth, cainism, Dionysus, Saturn and Chronos. In Manuel de Lope's work, all these myths are structured around a dominant myth - that of Chronos- thanks to a highly influential image which sheds light on Spanish cultural identity, an image which was already present in Goya's work: Saturn devouring his sons.

Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) / Steven Millhauser has been recognized for his abilities as both a novelist and a writer of short fiction. Yet, he has evaded definitive categorization because his fiction does not fit into any one category. Millhauser’s fiction has defied clean categorization specifically because of his regular oscillation between the modes of realism and fantasy. Much of Millhauser’s short fiction contains images of labyrinths: wandering narratives that appear to split off or come to a dead end, massive structures of branching, winding paths and complex mysteries that are as deep and impenetrable as the labyrinth itself. This project aims to specifically explore the presence of labyrinthine elements throughout Steven Millhauser’s short fiction. Millhauser’s labyrinths are either described spatially and/or suggested in his narrative form; they are, in other words, spatial and/or discursive. Millhauser’s spatial labyrinths (which I refer to as ‘architecture’ stories) involve the lengthy description of some immense or underground structure. The structures are fantastic in their size and often seem infinite in scale. These labyrinths are quite literal. Millhauser’s discursive labyrinths demonstrate the labyrinthine primarily through a forking, branching and repetitive narrative form. Millhauser’s use of the labyrinth is at once the same and different than preceding generations of short fiction. Postmodern short fiction in the 1960’s and 70’s used labyrinthine elements to draw the reader’s attention to the story’s textuality. Millhauser, too, writes in the experimental/fantastic mode, but to different ends. The devices of metafiction and realism are employed in his short fiction as agents of investigating and expressing two competing visions of reality. Using the ‘tricks’ and techniques of postmodern metafiction in tandem with realistic detail, Steven Millhauser’s labyrinthine fiction adjusts and reapplies the experimental short story to new ends: real-world applications and thematic expression.