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xo Orpheus: Fifty New Myths is a 2013 anthology edited by Kate Bernheimer. It is a collection of stories based on older myths and fairy tales, billed as a "new way of mythmaking."
Sep 24, 2013 · Featuring talkative goats, a cat lady, a bird woman, a beer-drinking ogre, a squid who falls in love with the sun, and a girl who gives birth to cubs, here are extravagantly imagined, bracingly contempo...
Sep 24, 2013 · Featuring talkative goats, a cat lady, a bird woman, a beer-drinking ogre, a squid who falls in love with the sun, and a girl who gives birth to cubs, here are extravagantly imagined, bracingly contempo...
Oct 15, 2013 · In her introduction to “xo Orpheus,” Bernheimer writes that Orpheus’s tragic demise—he violates the terms of his agreement with Hades, Eurydice is cast back into the underworld, and he is ...
Bernheimer (My Mother Killed Me, my Father Ate Me: Forty New Fairy Tales) reignites the world of myth in her ingenious new anthology of boundless imagination.
Sep 24, 2013 · “XO” in the modern sense is a farewell, a departure, a leavetaking—and xo Orpheus suggests another good-bye by Orpheus to his bride, Eurydice. The phrase is sad then, humanly sad, considering how thing...
In Orpheus, we sense the emergence of a semi-fantastic world with disturbing atmospheres, impregnated with ambiguous charms. The golden chiaroscuro, complex composition and sensual yet mystic mood that characterised M...
Sep 24, 2013 · If “xo” signals a goodbye, then xo Orpheus is a goodbye to an old way of mythmaking. Featuring talkative goats, a cat lady, a bird woman, a beer-drinking ogre, a squid who falls in love with the sun, an...
Philip Glass’s Orphée, based on Jean Cocteau’s cinematic retelling of the Orpheus myth, is a parable about the dangers of self-obsession. Though married to Eurydice, Orphée falls in love with an enigmatic Princess.
Sep 22, 2025 · Black OrpheusThe Brazilian actor Breno Mello as Orfeo in the film Orfeu Negro (1959; Black Orpheus), directed by Marcel Camus. The story of Orpheus was transformed and provided with a happy ending in th...
