Dr Ben Pestell
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Email
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Location
Colchester Campus
Profile
Biography
Member of the Executive Committee of the Centre for Myth Studies at Essex. Peripatetic teacher of myth and literature. Researcher in the presence of myth in contemporary literature.
Qualifications
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PhD Literature University of Essex,
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MA English Literature (Critical Theory) University of Sussex,
Publications
Journal articles (3)
Pestell, B., A Branch of Magic, or the Possibility of Myth in Esther Kinsky’s Am Fluß. Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature. 44 (1)
Pestell, (2017). Kindly Terror and Civic Fury: Eumenides and the Language of Myth. Comparative Literature Studies. 54 (2), 305-305
Pestell, (2016). Review. Comparative Literature Studies. 53 (4), 837-837
Books (1)
Pestell, B., Palazzolo, P. and Burnett, L., (2016). Translating Myth. Routledge. 978-1-910887-04-2
Book chapters (4)
Pestell, B., (2018). Ecstatic Atoms: The question of Oresteian individuation. In: The Ecstatic and the Archaic: An Analytical Psychological Inquiry. Editors: Bishop, P. and Gardner, L., . Routledge. 97- 116. 1351403427. 9781351403429
Pestell, B. and Palazzolo, P., (2016). Introduction. In: Translating Myth. Routledge. 1- 10. 1910887048. 9781910887042
Pestell, B., (2016). The Stars’ Earthly Mirror: Heavenly Inversions in the Oresteia of Aeschylus. In: Heavenly Discourses. Editors: Campion, N., . 79- 84. 190776707X. 9781907767074
Pestell, B., (2015). Poetic Re-enchantment in an Age of Crisis: Mortal and Divine Worlds in the Poetry of Alice Oswald. In: Myths in Crisis: The Crisis of Myth. Editors: Losada, JM. and Lipscomb, A., . 213- 221. 1443878146. 9781443878142