Dr Benjamin 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. Teacher of myth and literature in Adult Education. 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 (4)
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, B., (2020). The Sun Within: New Solar Myth in Early Novels of Wilson Harris and J.G. Ballard. Culture and Cosmos. 24 (0102), 81-95
Pestell, (2017). Kindly Terror and Civic Fury: Eumenides and the Language of Myth. Comparative Literature Studies. 54 (2), 305-305
Pestell, B., (2016). Venus as Muse: From Lucretius to Michel Serres. Comparative Literature Studies. 53 (4), 837-842
Books (1)
Pestell, B., Palazzolo, P. and Burnett, L., (2016). Translating Myth. Routledge. 978-1-910887-04-2
Book chapters (5)
Pestell, B., (2023). Coleridge, Schelling and Vernant on Tautegory in Myth. In: Mito: teorías de un concepto controvertido. Editors: Losada, JM. and Lipscomb, A., . Grupo Editorial Sial Pigmalión. 97- 106
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
