Volume 8: Myth (2022)

You can access a digital version of the volume here.

Volume 8 of Litterae Mentis explores the theme of Myth in literature. The contributors contemplate how myth has become the core of human nature, storytelling, and oral tradition through engaging academic articles and thought-provoking creative pieces.

Foreword: Dr Katharine Peddie

Contributors:

Un/Fixing Aphrodite: Reading Aphrodite as the Foundation for Cyprus as a Territory that Sustains and Disturbs Fixity — Nandia Dedeltaki

“A Tribute to the Potentiality of Sadness”: Sex and Desire in Billy-Ray Belcourt’s This Wound is a World — Sophie Kay Harris

Operation Goodwood: Myths and Historical Misconceptions of British Armoured Forces in the Normandy Campaign June-July 1944 — Nathan Ilett

Atomic Alchemy: Negotiating the Relationship Between the United States, Mythology, and Nuclear Science (1895-1940) — Tom Wood