The Grail. from Celtic Myth to Christian Symbol

Loomis, Roger Sherman

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“…Indeed, others have suggested that Almasy is a mythological Fisher King (Fledderus 1997). In Arthurian legend, the Fisher King is the last keeper of the Holy Grailan object that offers happiness and wellbeing (Loomis 1991). But the Fisher King also suffers from a mysterious and disabling injury, suggesting that although he cannot cure himself, he can reach out to help others.…”

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Nurse as wounded healer in The English Patient

McAllister

2017

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The English Patient, a novel by Michael Ondaatje (1993), is a romantic drama set in the chaos of Europe at the end of World War II. In the ruins of an Italian church, a terribly burned man is being tended to by Hana, a young nurse too traumatised from her own war experiences to return home. Ondaatje's acclaimed novel contains rich imagery, complex characters and interactions, as well as a story that weaves back and forward in time. The novel is a writerly text; the meaning needs to be unravelled by the reader and, due to this feature, it also makes for interesting reading about nursing. Too often texts about nursing are reductionist and stereotypednurse characters are often angels or lovers, sometimes villains and sleuths. Rarely are they portrayed as a wounded healeran ancient, intriguing and illuminating myth. Within this paper, Hana's struggles are read as a metaphor for those that similarly confront many nurses. She is a vulnerable young person thrust, because of the nature of her work, into the harsh realities of adulthood. She aspires to a kind of nursing that is attendant and gentle, and able to meet all of her patient's needs. Yet the world she is forced to work in is chaotic, unpredictable and stripped of resources. The patient she tries to comfort is moribund and he endures agony and loss. In her interactions with him she learns about love, beauty, humility and, ultimately, resilience. In this way the written, literary narrative connects to a cultural narrative that at once embodies a profession's struggles and illuminates more general transcendence.

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Nurse as wounded healer in The English Patient

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2017

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“…La sensibilidad distópica que opera en el ámbito literario británico contemporáneo toma como referencias en numerosas ocasiones las leyendas anglosajonas para la creación de argumentos y personajes. Una de estas narrativas -tal vez la más famosa (Loomis, 1991: 1)-es la leyenda del Grial, que ha inspirado novelas, cuentos, películas e incluso videojuegos a lo largo de las últimas décadas, debido a la fascinación que aún provoca en el público. 1 El motivo de dicha fascinación por la reliquia, afirma Loomis, reside en la perplejidad que producen la magia terrenal y los milagros sacramentales que se encierran en las obras del Grial.…”

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La enfermedad que pervive: reescritura del mito de la Tierra Baldía en «Machines Like Me» de Ian McEwan

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Cazorla

2021

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En las letras inglesas, el mito de la Tierra Baldía, célebre sobre todo por su inscripción en las narrativas del ciclo artúrico, se convirtió en un claro ejemplo de mito con un gran peso moral. Y, como todo mito, la Tierra Baldía ha evolucionado y el Grial, que la restituiría en paraíso, ha abandona la función curativa y se convierte en un imposible. En Machines Like Me (2019), Charlie hace frente a la adopción de un androide, Adam, que desde el comienzo se definirá como «el Grial de la Ciencia» y que, poco a poco, adquirirá un comportamiento más humano que el de su padre adoptivo. Las frustraciones de Charlie y la consecuente devastación de su vida personal, con Adam como eje motor, le embarcarán en la búsqueda de su propio paraíso en una Tierra Baldía asolada por la guerra de las Malvinas, donde Reino Unido será derrotado.

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La enfermedad que pervive: reescritura del mito de la Tierra Baldía en «Machines Like Me» de Ian McEwan

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