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AbstractIn Sisyphus Outdone (2012), Nathanaël's particular tribute to Albert Camus' The Myth of Sisyphus (1942), the reader faces a challenging hybrid text in which the verbal and visual dimensions intermingle to produce an idiosyncratic type of narrative. Fragmentary, elliptical, a web of quotations, dictums, and meditations on the difficult condition of the individual in the current image-saturated scenario of the first decades of the 21st century, the text manages to propose a rigorous reflection upon crucial aspects of representation from History and temporality, to the Subject now, photography, catastrophe theory, architecture, failure and translation, among the most salient. Sisyphus, I suggest, exhibits a strategic photopoetics which operates as a self-reflective mechanism contributing to the persistence of an impermanent liminal subject and to the (re)production of textuality and the proliferation of voices against silence.

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This paper aims at examining the first Don Quixote sound film The Adventures of Don Quixote, directed by G.W. Pabst in 1933, as well as the songs and musical themes that two great French composers, Ravel and Ibert composed for the Russian baritone Feodor Chaliapin, the protagonist of this first feature film. It was originally planned as a multilingual project for a European and a larger world audience (English, French and German) that might understand Don Quixote as a classic-cum-modernist cultural product of the incipient technological era. In an attempt to disentangle the complex sociohistorical, intellectual and economic forces at play in the crystallisation of a myth for modern times (20th century and beyond), I approach Pabst's film version with recourse to the Frankfurt School's valuable critique and insights on notions such as the aura, instrumental reason, myth, and the culture industry.

Introduction: Myth and Environmentalism: Entanglements, Synergies, Openings Esther Sánchez-Pardo -- PART I: Myth, disaster and present-day views on ecological damage -- 1. The afterlife of Chornobyl: apocalyptic mythology and environmentalism in the Exclusion Zone / Haley Laurila -- 2. Myths of wilderness and motherhood in postapocalyptic narratives of the Anthropocene / Hope Jennings and Christine Junker -- PART II: Indigenous and Afro-diasporic myths and ecological knowledge -- 3. Boundless water, boundless ice-Arctic cosmological concepts in times of melting horizons / Sonja Ross -- 4. Revisiting the wild: mythology and ecological wisdom in shalan joudry's Waking Ground Leonor / María Martínez Serrano -- 5. Myth, Afrodiasporic spirituality, and the oceanic archive in independent comics / Paul Humphrey -- PART III: Artistic practices, myth and environmental resilience -- 6. "Giant by Thine Own Nature": Jean-Baptiste Débret and Antônio Parreiras' mythic Brazilian land(scape)s through a transatlantic gaze / Esther Lezra and Esther Sánchez-Pardo -- 7. New cosmogonies of waste negotiated in the art of Mohamed Larbi Rahhali / María Porras Sánchez and Lhoussain Simour -- 8. Death is life is death is life: continual regeneration in myth and the art of Maki Ohkojima / Keijiro Suga -- 9. Coda: a radical evocation of seed / Jeanette Hart-Mann