Color Dichotomy: The Myths of Janus and Narcissus in Mijangos’s Pictorial Vision
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https://doi.org/10.22409/2pajnc39Keywords:
Greco-Roman mythology, illustration, intersemiotic translation, Amanda MijangosAbstract
In this article, I propose an analysis of Amanda Mijangos’s illustrations for the book Diccionario de mitos clásicos, written by Esperón and Ovies, based on the contrast between light and dark. To this end, I select two illustrations — Janus and Narcissus — and discuss how this contrast reflects the dichotomy present in the mythical narrative of each character. I aim to demonstrate that the light-dark opposition in Mijangos’s illustrations points to the life-death dichotomy, from which also emerges the theme of duplicity inherent to the characters depicted. For this purpose, I draw on the comparison between written text and illustration through the lens of intersemiotic translation, and I offer a structural analysis of the selected images.
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