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Book Synopsis Companion to Literary Myths by : Pierre Brunel
Download or read book Companion to Literary Myths written by Pierre Brunel and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 1256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of fascination essays explores the nature and influence of myth and mythic figures in the context of literature. Each essay traces the life of a particular myth in fiction, poetry or drama, drawing on legends from all over the world, from prehistory to the modern age. Alphabetically organized, the Companion's entries fall largely into four main areas: the Cosmos, the Psyche, Society, and History/ Politics.--[book cover].
Book Synopsis Companion to Literary Myths, Heroes and Archetypes by : Pierre Brunel
Download or read book Companion to Literary Myths, Heroes and Archetypes written by Pierre Brunel and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-07-30 with total page 1454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in French in 1988, and in English in 1992, this companion explores the nature of the literary myth in a collection of over 100 essays, from Abraham to Zoroaster. Its coverage is international and draws on legends from prehistory to the modern age throughout literature, whether fiction, poetry or drama. Essays on classical figures, as well as later myths, explore the origin, development and various incarnations of their subjects. Alongside entries on western archetypes, are analyses of non-European myths from across the world, including Africa, China, Japan, Latin America and India. This book will be indispensable for students and teachers of literature, history and cultural studies, as well as anyone interested in the fascinating world of mythology. A detailed bibliography and index are included. ‘The Companion provides a fine interpretive road map to Western culture’s use of archetypal stories.’ Wilson Library Review ‘It certainly is a comprehensive volume... extremely useful.’ Times Higher Education Supplement
Book Synopsis The Myth of the Titanic by : R. Howells
Download or read book The Myth of the Titanic written by R. Howells and published by Springer. This book was released on 1999-03-29 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first critical analysis of the Titanic as modern myth, this book focuses on the second of the two Titanics . The first was the physical Titanic , the rusting remains of which can still be found twelve thousand feet below the north Atlantic. The second is the mythical Titanic which emerged just as its tangible predecessor slipped from view on 15 April 1912. It is the second of the two Titanics which remains the more interesting and which continues to carry cultural resonances today. The Myth of the Titanic begins with the launching of the 'unsinkable ship' and ends with the outbreak of the 'war to end all wars'. It provides an insight into the particular culture of late-Edwardian Britain and beyond this draws far greater conclusions about the complex relationship between myth, history, popular culture and society as a whole.
Book Synopsis International Companion Encyclopedia of Children's Literature by : Peter Hunt
Download or read book International Companion Encyclopedia of Children's Literature written by Peter Hunt and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-08-02 with total page 1399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Children's publishing is a huge international industry and there is ever-growing interest from researchers and students in the genre as cultural object of study and tool for education and socialization.
Book Synopsis Encyclopedia of Life Writing by : Margaretta Jolly
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Life Writing written by Margaretta Jolly and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-04 with total page 1141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Download or read book Emyr Humphreys written by Diane Green and published by University of Wales Press. This book was released on 2009-07-01 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an examination of the novels of Emyr Humphreys in the light of his ideas on Wales: Welsh history, Welsh culture and the importance of a separate Welsh identity. It explores Humphreys’ practice in the light both of his own theories of culture and fiction and of a variety of models derived from postcolonial theory. Its main conclusions are that there are two particular techniques, the use of Welsh history and of Celtic myth, that have proved particularly central to Humphreys’ purposes throughout his career. These have consistently been the principal ways in which he foregrounds for the reader both what it means to be Welsh and the importance, for the nation, of maintaining an understanding of its heritage. And both these key strategies of his fiction should, it is argued, be read as typical postcolonial devices.
Book Synopsis American Mythologies by : William Blazek
Download or read book American Mythologies written by William Blazek and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This challenging new book looks at the current reinvention of American Studies: a reinvention that, among other things, has put the whole issue of just what is 'American' and what is 'American Studies' into contention. The collection focuses, in particular, on American mythology. The editors themselves have written essays that examine the connections between mythologies of the United States and those of either classical European or Native American traditions. William Blazek considers Louise Erdrich's Love Medicine novels as chronicles combining Ojibwa mythology and contemporary U.S. culture in ways that reinvest a sense of mythic identity within a multicultural, postmodern America. Michael K Glenday's analysis of Jayne Anne Phillips' work and explores in it the contexts where myth and dream interact with each other. Betty Louise Bell is one of four essayists in this collection who focus their criticism on authors of Native American heritage. In the first part of 'Indians with Voices', Bell carefully argues that Roy Harvey Pearce's seminal Native American studies text Savagism and Civilization fails to acknowledge its white elitist assumptions about what constitutes The American Mind and views Native Americans along a primitive-savage binary that helped to create a twentieth-century 'national mythos of innocence and destiny'. Other essays include Christopher Brookeman's study of the impact of Muhammad Ali on Norman Mailer's non-fiction writing about heavyweight boxing.
Book Synopsis The Friendly Guide to Mythology by : Nancy Hathaway
Download or read book The Friendly Guide to Mythology written by Nancy Hathaway and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2003-08-26 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How was the world as we know it created? What does it mean to be a hero? Where do we go when we die? Why are flood myths so ubiquitous? Anyone who has pondered these and other questions about humanity's ancient beliefs will be fascinated by The Friendly Guide to Mythology. Focusing on Greek and Roman mythology but including myths from Africa, Asia, Australia, northern Europe, and the Americas, The Friendly Guide to Mythology is filled with compelling stories of gods, goddesses, mortals, and monsters. Beautifully ornamented with photos, line drawings, and quotes, this entertaining guide also includes an A-to-Z listing of the world's most captivating goddesses; profiles of famous writers, collectors, and interpreters of myths; and engaging sidebars. Featuring myths of love, wisdom, and adventure as well as those of violence, jealousy, and pure folly, this accessible collection offers fascinating insight into the human psyche and brings our rich mythological heritage delightfully into focus.
Book Synopsis Heroism in the Harry Potter Series by : Katrin Berndt
Download or read book Heroism in the Harry Potter Series written by Katrin Berndt and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-22 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taking up the various conceptions of heroism that are conjured in the Harry Potter series, this collection examines the ways fictional heroism in the twenty-first century challenges the idealized forms of a somewhat simplistic masculinity associated with genres like the epic, romance and classic adventure story. The collection's three sections address broad issues related to genre, Harry Potter's development as the central heroic character and the question of who qualifies as a hero in the Harry Potter series. Among the topics are Harry Potter as both epic and postmodern hero, the series as a modern-day example of psychomachia, the series' indebtedness to the Gothic tradition, Harry's development in the first six film adaptations, Harry Potter and the idea of the English gentleman, Hermione Granger's explicitly female version of heroism, adult role models in Harry Potter, and the complex depictions of heroism exhibited by the series' minor characters. Together, the essays suggest that the Harry Potter novels rely on established generic, moral and popular codes to develop new and genuine ways of expressing what a globalized world has applauded as ethically exemplary models of heroism based on responsibility, courage, humility and kindness.
Book Synopsis Scottish Women's Gothic and Fantastic Writing by : Monica Germana
Download or read book Scottish Women's Gothic and Fantastic Writing written by Monica Germana and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2013-03-05 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a critical survey of the gothic texts of late twentieth-century and contemporary Scottish women writers including Kate Atkinson, Ellen Galford, A.L. Kennedy, Ali Smith and Emma Tennant focusing on four themes: quests and other worlds, w
Book Synopsis Artists, Writers, and Musicians by : Michel-Andre Bossy
Download or read book Artists, Writers, and Musicians written by Michel-Andre Bossy and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2001-10-30 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Disney's animated trailblazing, Dostoyevsky's philosophical neuroses, Hendrix's electric haze, Hitchcock's masterful manipulation, Frida Kahlo's scarifying portraits, Van Gogh's vigorous color, and Virginia Woolf's modern feminism: this multicultural reference tool examines 200 artists, writers, and musicians from around the world. Detailed biographical essays place them in a broad historical context, showing how their luminous achievements influenced and guided contemporary and future generations, shaped the internal and external perceptions of their craft, and met the sensibilities of their audience.
Book Synopsis From Girl to Goddess by : Valerie Estelle Frankel
Download or read book From Girl to Goddess written by Valerie Estelle Frankel and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-01-10 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many are familiar with Joseph Campbell's theory of the hero's journey, the idea that every man from Moses to Hercules grows to adulthood while battling his alter-ego. This book explores the universal heroine's journey as she quests through world myth. Numerous stories from cultures as varied as Chile and Vietnam reveal heroines who battle for safety and identity, thereby upsetting popular notions of the passive, gentle heroine. Only after she has defeated her dark side and reintegrated can the heroine become the bestower of wisdom, the protecting queen and arch-crone. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.
Book Synopsis Culture as Text, Text as Culture by : Elodie Lafitte
Download or read book Culture as Text, Text as Culture written by Elodie Lafitte and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2020-05-22 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Culture as Text, Text as Culture represents a novel, interdisciplinary analysis of textuality as it pertains to Cultural Studies. More specifically, the work examines how the analysis of texts has shaped the most vital contemporary debate of Cultural Studies: the recognition that all texts and their contexts are constructs. Building upon a Post-structural/Post-modern understanding of truth as a construct, Cultural Studies has long since acknowledged the ability of texts to express the time and culture of their origin. This work, however, expands this idea, demonstrating not only how a culture is preserved in a text, but how that text can in turn define its culture, even redefine its history. This compendium is structured around four of the most prominent contemporary topics of Cultural Studies: the relationship between historical and fictional writing, the ability of authors to recreate or redefine history, the relationship between language and image, and the ability for traditionally marginalized groups to reassert their place in history. The book presents articles from a large spectrum of disciplinary fields and civilizations in order to demonstrate how the application of Cultural Studies can unite seemingly disparate disciplines.
Book Synopsis Recent Reference Books in Religion by : William M. Johnston
Download or read book Recent Reference Books in Religion written by William M. Johnston and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-01-27 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent Reference Books in Religion provides incisive summaries and evaluations of more than 350 contemporary reference works on religious traditions ancient and modern that have been published in English, French and German. For maximum usefulness to readers, Professor Johnston has broadly defined religion to include not just the world religion of Christianity , Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, and Buddhism but also such alternative approaches as mythology, folklore, and the philosophy of ethics. Each entry, analyzing a particular work, includes full bibliographic details as well as commentary: outstanding articles and contributors are highlighted, strengths and weaknesses are carefully noted and weighed. Readers are directed to volumes whose strengths and weaknesses are carefully noted and weighed. Readers are directed to volumes whose strengths complement the weaknesses of others. An indispensable guide in any religious studies collection, Recent Reference Books in Religion: 2nd Edition includes works published through the end of 1997. It also includes a Glossary that describes types and functions of refernce books, and five indexes: Titles, Authors, Topics, Persons and Places.
Book Synopsis The Hero with a Thousand Faces by : Joseph Campbell
Download or read book The Hero with a Thousand Faces written by Joseph Campbell and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 1988 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of heroism in the myths of the world - an exploration of all the elements common to the great stories that have helped people make sense of their lives from the earliest times. It takes in Greek Apollo, Maori and Jewish rites, the Buddha, Wotan, and the bothers Grimm's Frog-King.
Book Synopsis Cape Town 2007 - Journeys, Encounters: Clinical, Communal, Cultural by : Pramila Bennett
Download or read book Cape Town 2007 - Journeys, Encounters: Clinical, Communal, Cultural written by Pramila Bennett and published by Daimon. This book was released on with total page 623 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 17th Triannual Congress of the International Association for Analytical Psychology (I.A.A.P.) took place in Cape Town, South Africa from August 12‑17, 2007. The theme of Journeys, Encounters: Clinical, Communal, Cultural was reflected in events and presentations throughout the week. The plenary presentations are printed in this volume, and a CD with all of the Congress presentations and numerous illustrations is included inside the back cover. From the Contents: Preface by Pramila Bennett 13 Opening of Congress by Astrid Berg 17 Welcome Address by Hester Solomon 19 Journeys – Encounters. Clinical, Communal, Cultural by Joe Cambray 23 How Does One Speak of Social Psychology in a Nation in Transition? by Mamphela Ramphele 26 Forgiveness After Mass Atrocities in Cultural Context: Making Public Spaces Intimate by Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela 36 Shifting Shadows: Shaping Dynamics in the Cultural Unconscious by Catherine Kaplinsky 55 Jung and Otherings in South Africa by Renos K. Papadopoulos 74 Journey to the Centre: Images of Wilderness and the Origins of the Southern African Association of Jungian Analysts by Graham S. Saayman 84 Race, Racism and Inter-Racialism in Brazil: Clinical and Cultural Perspectives by Walter Boechat & Paula Pantoja Boechat 99 The Stranger in the Therapeutic Space by Uwe Langendorf 114 My Heart Is on My Tongue – The Untranslated Self in a Translated World by Antjie Krog 131 Panel: A Passage to Africa, Part II, Contemporary Perspectives on ‘Jung’s Journey to Africa’ moderated by John Beebe 146 Life and Soul by Karina Turok 151 The Sable Venus on the Middle Passage: Images of the Transatlantic Slave Trade by Michael Vannoy Adams 159 The Journey to Africa: Cultural Melancholia in Black and White by Samuel Kimbles 165 The Containing Function of the Transference by François Martin-Vallas 169 Encounter with a Traditional Healer: Western and African Therapeutic Approaches in Dialogue by Suzanne Maiello 185 Brain Mechanisms of Dreaming by Mark Solms 204 Response by Margaret Wilkinson 218 New Direction Home: African Oracles and Analytic Attitudes by Sherry Salman 225 Panel: The Idea of the Numinous moderated by Ann Casement 242 Jung, the Numinous, and a Surpassing Myth – The Inevitability of the Numinous by John Dourley 243 On the Importance of Numinous Experience in the Alchemy of Individuation by Murray Stein 250 Before We Were: Creating in Being Created – Encounter and Journey in Our Analytic Profession by Ann Belford Ulanov 255 Closing Remarks by Astrid Berg 265 The IAAP Looks Far Ahead – President’s Farewell Address by Christian Gaillard 266
Book Synopsis ARBA Guide to Subject Encyclopedias and Dictionaries by : Susan C. Awe
Download or read book ARBA Guide to Subject Encyclopedias and Dictionaries written by Susan C. Awe and published by Englewood, Colo. : Libraries Unlimited. This book was released on 1997 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a selection of subject dictionaries and encyclopedias that would be useful in all types of libraries.
