The rewriting of myths: The case of the passage of "The Sirens" of the Odyssey in the twentieth and twenty-first century

Abstract

This article makes a theorical review about the form of writing and his intertextual way, after that focus on the
restructure of the myths like a strategy in the literary innovation, to make this, it takes the classical passage of the
sirens on Odyssey and tracks the use that it has been giving through the XX and XXI century, and to present some
esthetic differences. It finishes making an emphasis on the restructure of the passage based on the characteristics of
the postmodern era. Postulates undermine the principles of originality and the authorship of the writter, by showing
once more the intertextual condition and innovative way of the process reading-writing.