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The Mythic Modern

Author : Travis Price
Publisher : Oro Editions
ISBN 13 : 9780982622681
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (226 download)

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Download or read book The Mythic Modern written by Travis Price and published by Oro Editions. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In the summer of 1992, Travis proposed taking ten to fifiteen architecture students to the far reaches of our continent to design and build interventions within well-defined landscapes, sites that reflected equally a long history of working and reworking both the profane and sacred. Called "The Spirit of Place," these workshops in the field encompassed focused studies of a place and its inhabitants as well as exploring the deep belief systems, myths, and stories that defined them ... What unfolded was a twenty-year history of interventions in cultural settings often completel foreign to the quotidian exeriences of our predominantly East Coast undergraduates"--Page VIII.

Mythic Worlds, Modern Words

Author : Joseph Campbell
Publisher : New World Library
ISBN 13 : 9781577314066
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book Mythic Worlds, Modern Words written by Joseph Campbell and published by New World Library. This book was released on 2003 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The mythographer who has command of scholarly literature, the analytic ability and the lucid prose and the staying power.

Rockwell Kent

Author : Jake Milgram Wien
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781555952600
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (526 download)

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Download or read book Rockwell Kent written by Jake Milgram Wien and published by . This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This extensively researched volume offers fresh insights into the spiritual and intellectual influences guiding Kent, including his early study with Arthur Wesley Dow, a key proponent of innovative theories of design and composition. It disentangles the strands of Kent's diverse stylistic achievements and exposes his double identity as Jazz Age humorist. As "Hogarth, Jr." he contributed sparkling ink drawings of modern life that captivated readers of Harper's Weekly, the New York Tribune, and Vanity Fair. Rounding out this wide-ranging study is a full list of Kent's solo exhibitions and a detailed chronology of his life."--BOOK JACKET.

Splinters

Author : Sandra Richardson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (819 download)

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Download or read book Splinters written by Sandra Richardson and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-14 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What do a ghost of a Native American Shaman, crystals, faeries and Druid magic have in common?They all assist Alexandra O'Malley, an Irish refugee from The Troubles, in her perilous heroic journey. As an adult, Alex moves from New York City to Taos, NM. She purchases her first home: an historic adobe hacienda, purported to have a ghost. She also re-locates her Alexandra's Art & Antiques business to the famous art-colony's town plaza. On her 33rd Aries birthday, a series of magical, mystical events force Alex to acknowledge that she is the incarnation of an ancient Celtic Goddess with a daunting destiny. She must reconnect with her Irish heritage and learn to integrate Elemental energies, Druid magic and Shamanic wisdom to battle a terrifying, archaic foe in two realities: The Land of Enchantment & The Mythical Celtic Otherworld. The body can eject a splinter and start to repair the damage within 24 hours. Other wounds take much longer to surface and begin to heal. Scroll up and buySplinters now to join Alex in her journey through fantastic adventures to self-realization in this magical-realism novel. *Book-sale profits will be donated to Taos CAV, Community Against Violence, Women's Shelter*

Louis Riel and the Creation of Modern Canada

Author : Jennifer Reid
Publisher : UNM Press
ISBN 13 : 0826344151
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (263 download)

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Download or read book Louis Riel and the Creation of Modern Canada written by Jennifer Reid and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Jennifer Reid looks at the man known today as the founder of Manitoba. Not just a traditional biography, Reid examines Riel's education and religious beliefs."--[book jacket].

Don Juan, Mescalito and Modern Magic

Author : Nevill Drury
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000900096
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Don Juan, Mescalito and Modern Magic written by Nevill Drury and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-07-28 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1978, Don Juan, Mescalito and Modern Magic begins with an analysis of the Castaneda material from the viewpoint of its inherently magical content. The author examines the symbiotic gestures, the magical actions and the mind-altering techniques employed by the brujo Don Juan, and then goes on to draw comparisons with two other schools of thought: the psychedelic development of the 1960s and the Western Magical Tradition. The essential aim throughout is to show that there is a basically Western shamanism which uses Western symbols and is easily accessible. The shamanistic practices of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn are examined in this context. Considerable emphasis is also placed on mythological aspects associated with out-of-the-body experiences and their relevance to both the Don Juan Mescalito imagery and the Qabalistic and Tarot symbols found in Western Magic. This book will be of interest to students of religion, history and literature.

Heroes Masked and Mythic

Author : Christopher Wood
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476683158
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book Heroes Masked and Mythic written by Christopher Wood and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2021-01-04 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Epic battles, hideous monsters and a host of petty gods--the world of Classical mythology continues to fascinate and inspire. Heroes like Herakles, Achilles and Perseus have influenced Western art and literature for centuries, and today are reinvented in the modern superhero. What does Iron Man have to do with the Homeric hero Odysseus? How does the African warrior Memnon compare with Marvel's Black Panther? Do DC's Wonder Woman and Xena the Warrior Princess reflect the tradition of Amazon women such as Penthesileia? How does the modern superhero's journey echo that of the epic warrior? With fresh insight into ancient Greek texts and historical art, this book examines modern superhero archetypes and iconography in comics and film as the crystallization of the hero's journey in the modern imagination.

The Modern Myths

Author : Philip Ball
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226823849
Total Pages : 437 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (268 download)

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Download or read book The Modern Myths written by Philip Ball and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2022-10-17 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With The Modern Myths, brilliant science communicator Philip Ball spins a new yarn. From novels and comic books to B-movies, it is an epic exploration of literature, new media and technology, the nature of storytelling, and the making and meaning of our most important tales. Myths are usually seen as stories from the depths of time—fun and fantastical, but no longer believed by anyone. Yet, as Philip Ball shows, we are still writing them—and still living them—today. From Robinson Crusoe and Frankenstein to Batman, many stories written in the past few centuries are commonly, perhaps glibly, called “modern myths.” But Ball argues that we should take that idea seriously. Our stories of Dracula, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and Sherlock Holmes are doing the kind of cultural work that the ancient myths once did. Through the medium of narratives that all of us know in their basic outline and which have no clear moral or resolution, these modern myths explore some of our deepest fears, dreams, and anxieties. We keep returning to these tales, reinventing them endlessly for new uses. But what are they really about, and why do we need them? What myths are still taking shape today? And what makes a story become a modern myth? In The Modern Myths, Ball takes us on a wide-ranging tour of our collective imagination, asking what some of its most popular stories reveal about the nature of being human in the modern age.

The Mythology of Modern Law

Author : Peter Fitzpatrick
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134890508
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (348 download)

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Download or read book The Mythology of Modern Law written by Peter Fitzpatrick and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-09-11 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Mythology of Modern Law is a radical reappraisal of the role of myth in modern society. Peter Fitzpatrick uses the example of law, as an integral category of modern social thought, to challenge the claims of modernity which deny the relevance of myth to modern society.

Modernism's Mythic Pose

Author : Carrie J. Preston
Publisher : OUP USA
ISBN 13 : 0199766266
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)

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Download or read book Modernism's Mythic Pose written by Carrie J. Preston and published by OUP USA. This book was released on 2011-09-05 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ancient world served as an unconventional source of inspiration for a generation of modernists. Drawing on examples from literature, dance, photography, and film, Modernism's Mythic Pose argues that a strain of antimodern-classicism permeates modernist celebrations of novelty, shock, and technology.The touchstone of Preston's study is Delsartism--the popular transnational movement which promoted mythic statue--posing, poetic recitation, and other hybrid solo performances for health and spiritual development. Derived from nineteenth-century acting theorist Francois Delsarte and largely organized by women, Delsartism shaped modernist performances, genres, and ideas of gender. Even Ezra Pound, a famous promoter of the "new," made ancient figures speak in the "old" genre of the dramatic monologue and performed public recitations. Recovering precedents in nineteenth-century popular entertainments and Delsartism's hybrid performances, this book considers the canonical modernists Pound and T. S. Eliot, lesser-known poets like Charlotte Mew, the Russian filmmaker Lev Kuleshov, Isadora Duncan the international dance star, and H.D. as poet and film actor.Preston's interdisciplinary engagement with performance, poetics, modern dance, and silent film demonstrates that studies of modernism often overemphasize breaks with the past. Modernism also posed myth in an ambivalent relationship to modernity, a halt in the march of progress that could function as escapism, skeptical critique, or a figure for the death of gods and civilizations.

Plato and the Mythic Tradition in Political Thought

Author : Tae-Yeoun Keum
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674250168
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (742 download)

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Download or read book Plato and the Mythic Tradition in Political Thought written by Tae-Yeoun Keum and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2020-12-08 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Gustave O. Arlt Award in the Humanities Winner of the Istvan Hont Book Prize An ambitious reinterpretation and defense of Plato’s basic enterprise and influence, arguing that the power of his myths was central to the founding of philosophical rationalism. Plato’s use of myths—the Myth of Metals, the Myth of Er—sits uneasily with his canonical reputation as the inventor of rational philosophy. Since the Enlightenment, interpreters like Hegel have sought to resolve this tension by treating Plato’s myths as mere regrettable embellishments, irrelevant to his main enterprise. Others, such as Karl Popper, have railed against the deceptive power of myth, concluding that a tradition built on Platonic foundations can be neither rational nor desirable. Tae-Yeoun Keum challenges the premise underlying both of these positions. She argues that myth is neither irrelevant nor inimical to the ideal of rational progress. She tracks the influence of Plato’s dialogues through the early modern period and on to the twentieth century, showing how pivotal figures in the history of political thought—More, Bacon, Leibniz, the German Idealists, Cassirer, and others—have been inspired by Plato’s mythmaking. She finds that Plato’s followers perennially raised the possibility that there is a vital role for myth in rational political thinking.

The Mythic City

Author : Donald Albrecht
Publisher : Princeton Architectural Press
ISBN 13 : 1568985622
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (689 download)

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Download or read book The Mythic City written by Donald Albrecht and published by Princeton Architectural Press. This book was released on 2005-09-22 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the late 1920s and early 1930s, architectural photographer Samuel H. Gottscho created a portrait of New York as a modern metropolis. This book presents more than 170 images of the city and provides a window to New York architecture and design of that era.

The Mythic Meanings of the Second Amendment

Author : David C. Williams
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300127553
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book The Mythic Meanings of the Second Amendment written by David C. Williams and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Williams offers a new reading of the Second Amendment suggesting that it guarantees to individuals a right to arms only insofar as they are part of a united & consensual people so that their uprising can be a unified revolution rather than a civil war.

A Thing of Beauty

Author : Peter Fiennes
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 086154062X
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (615 download)

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Download or read book A Thing of Beauty written by Peter Fiennes and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-10-21 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: LONGLISTED FOR THE ANGLO-HELLENIC LEAGUE RUNCIMAN AWARD 2022 ‘Peter Fiennes’s road trip around Greece [is] engagingly described’ Mary Beard, TLS ‘Fiennes is a brilliant and generous guide through Greece’ Observer What do the Greek myths mean to us today? It’s now a golden age for these tales – they crop up in novels, films and popular culture. But what’s the modern relevance of Theseus, Hera and Pandora? Were these stories ever meant for children? And what’s to be seen now at the places where heroes fought and gods once quarrelled? Peter Fiennes travels to the sites of some of the most famous Greek myths, on the trail of hope, beauty and a new way of seeing what we have done to our world. Fiennes walks through landscapes – stunning and spoiled – on the trail of dancing activists and Arcadian shepherds, finds the ‘most beautiful beach in Greece’, consults the Oracle, and loses himself in the cities, remote villages and ruins of this storied land.

Once and Future Myths

Author : Phil Cousineau
Publisher : Conari Press
ISBN 13 : 9781573248648
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (486 download)

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Download or read book Once and Future Myths written by Phil Cousineau and published by Conari Press. This book was released on 2003-07-01 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing from classic myths, a fascinating guide shows how people can obtain a deeper comprehension of work, love, creativity, and spirituality by becoming aware of myths in everyday life and presents new accounts of such contemporary mythmakers as Jim Morrison and Vincent van Gogh, explaining how these icons had a profound impact on history and culture. 35,000 first printing.

The Mythic Indian

Author : James Boucher
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1040017339
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book The Mythic Indian written by James Boucher and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-05-29 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Mythic Indian: The Native in French and Québécois Cultural Imaginaries charts a genealogy of French and Québécois visions of the Amerindian. Tracing an evolution of paradigms from the sixteenth century to present, it examines how the myths of the Noble, Ignoble, and Ecological Savage as well as the Vanishing Indian and Going Native inform a variety of discourses and ways of thinking about Québécois culture. By analyzing mythic depictions of the Native Figure that originate at first contacts, this book demonstrates that an inextricable link exists between discourses as disparate as literature and science. This book will be of interest to scholars in French Studies, Francophone Studies, Indigenous Studies, Hemispheric Studies, Social Sciences, and Literary Studies.

Virginia Woolf's Mythic Method

Author : Amy C Smith
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780814215135
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (151 download)

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Download or read book Virginia Woolf's Mythic Method written by Amy C Smith and published by . This book was released on 2022-03 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reinvigorates modernist analysis of myth in Virginia Woolf's fiction by illuminating Woolf's use of parataxis to engage both myth and contemporary social and political issues.