Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contemporary pasts -- Unraveling mythical order in Caryl Phillips's The nature of blood -- The Irigarayan "third language" in Liz Jensen's Ark baby -- Trapped in the "negative gradient": traumatic dis-membering in W.G. Sebald's Austerlitz -- "These weeping eyes, those seeing tears": the flow of memory from fugitive pieces to Shakespeare -- Shakespearean presents -- Turning gender and plot in The merchant of Venice -- "God me such usage send": Desdemona's lyric response in Othello -- "I am heir to my affection": re-visioning family and love in The winter's tale -- Afterward: the myths redeployed.

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