Las metamorfosis de los mitos de Ícaro y Dédalo: una correlación de las estéticas de Publio Ovidio Nasón y James Joyce

Abstract

This article examines how, despite belonging to different times and worldviews,
both Ovid in his Metamorphoses and James Joyce in A portrait of the Artist
as a Young Man use the myth of the labyrinth of Daedalus as a metaphor for
the shape of their respective works and see the myth of Icarus as a symbol
of the avant-garde artist: one who must depart from the established order in
pursuit of novelty.