Journey to the Sea #14
October 15, 2009
I published the fourteenth issue of my online myth magazine Journey to the Sea this morning. This issue includes an article by my friend Jason on Lloyd Alexander’s Prydain Cycle and one by me on the book Where The Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak, both typical examples of the kind of modern myth-making we write about on the site. But in addition to these two, I’m incredibly pleased with the third article that looks at the film Katyń by Polish film director Andrzej Wajda. The film is not fantastical at all — it would qualify as historical fiction, I suppose, looking at the tragic 1940 massacre in the Poland forest Katyn — but Laura Gibbs looks at how Wajda wove the Greek myth of Antigone into the film.
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Katyn: History, Lies, Fiction and Myth - Laura looks at the 2007 film Katyn, exploring how director Andrzej Wajda wove Greek myth and his own biography into the fictional character of Agnieszka to give a true account of the tragic 1940 massacre in Poland.
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Welsh Mythological Underpinnings of Lloyd Alexander’s Prydain Cycle - Jason considers Lloyd Alexander’s careful borrowing of material from Welsh mythology (especially stories from the Mabinogion) to create a compelling backdrop against which to tell his own stories.
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Imagination in Where The Wild Things Are - Randy examines some subtle details in the illustrations of one of his childhood favorites to see what Maurice Sendak’s classic picture book has to say about the transforming power of imagination.