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The Mythmaker

Author : Hyam Maccoby
Publisher : Barnes & Noble Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780760707876
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book The Mythmaker written by Hyam Maccoby and published by Barnes & Noble Publishing. This book was released on 1986 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author presents new arguments which support the view that Paul, not Jesus, was the founder of Christianity. He argues that Jesus and also his immediate disciples James and Peter were life-long adherents of Pharisaic Judaism. Paul, however, was not, as he claimed, a native-born Jew of Pharisee upbringing, but came in fact from a Gentile background. He maintains that it was Paul alone who created a new religion by his vision of Jesus as a Divine Saviour who died to save humanity. This concept, which went far beyond the messianic claims of Jesus, was an amalgamation of ideas derived from Hellenistic religion, especially from Gnosticism and the mystery cults. Paul played a devious and adventurous political game with Jesus' followers of the so-called Jerusalem Church, who eventually disowned him. The conclusions of this historical and psychological study will come as a shock to many readers, but it is nevertheless a book which cannot be ignored by anyone concerned with the foundations of our culture and society. -- Book jacket.

Plato the Myth Maker

Author : Luc Brisson
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226075198
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (751 download)

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Download or read book Plato the Myth Maker written by Luc Brisson and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2000-12-15 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We think of myth as a fictional story, and Plato was the first to use the term muthos in that sense. But Plato also used muthos to describe the practice of making and telling stories, the oral transmission of all that a community keeps in its collective memory. In the first part of Plato the Myth Maker, Luc Brisson reconstructs Plato's multifaceted and not uncritical description of muthos in light of the latter's famous Atlantis story. The second part of the book contrasts this sense of myth, as Plato does, with another form of speech that he believed was far superior: the logos of philosophy. Appearing for the first time in English, Plato the Myth Maker is a solid and important contribution to the history of myth, based on the privileged testimony of one of its most influential critics and supporters.

Mythmaker

Author : Anne E. Neimark
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 0547997361
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (479 download)

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Download or read book Mythmaker written by Anne E. Neimark and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2012-09-18 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Long before Harry Potter and J. K. Rowling, there were Gandalf, Bilbo Baggins, and J. R. R. Tolkien . . . This will bring the creator to vivid life” (Booklist). A philologist of world renown, a professor at Oxford, and the author of academic treatises, J.R.R. Tolkien was far more than a fantasy book writer. His lifelong fascination with medieval texts and languages gave him a unique vision and endless inspiration for his tales. His broad interests made possible his creation of faery worlds and entire races of beings, as well as the languages, cultures, and characters that make his books as engaging today as they were fifty years ago. This clear and thoroughly researched biography of the creator of The Hobbit is accompanied by magical illustrations that recall the mystery of Tolkien’s imaginary worlds. “Give[s] some interesting insight into the power Tolkien’s work has had on people over the years.” —School Library Journal

Mythmaker

Author : Marianne De Pierres
Publisher : Watkins Media Limited
ISBN 13 : 0857664220
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (576 download)

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Download or read book Mythmaker written by Marianne De Pierres and published by Watkins Media Limited. This book was released on 2015-10-06 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Virgin’s in a tight spot. A murder rap hangs over her head and isn’t likely to go away unless she agrees to work for an organisation called GJIC (the Global Joint Intelligence Commission). Being blackmailed is one thing, discovering that her mother is both alive and the President of GJIC is quite another. Then there’s the escalation of Mythos sightings and the bounty on her head. Oddly, Hamish is the only one she can rely on. Life is complicated.

Man the Myth-maker

Author : Wilfred Thomas Jewkes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book Man the Myth-maker written by Wilfred Thomas Jewkes and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Mythmaker

Author : Dr. Mary Harrell
Publisher : Chiron Publications
ISBN 13 : 1630515027
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book The Mythmaker written by Dr. Mary Harrell and published by Chiron Publications. This book was released on 2018-05-01 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Mythmaker is a personal myth, a fiction based on actual events, and tells the extraordinary tale of Katie Neumann's childhood, interrupted when her mother dies in childbirth leaving seven children and their overwhelmed father to figure out what to do. What Katie faces next, most people can't imagine. The appearance of a mysterious—and unwanted—figure opens an enchanted space for all that follows.

The Mythmaker

Author : Carter Wheelock
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 029272716X
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)

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Download or read book The Mythmaker written by Carter Wheelock and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2014-05-29 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Readers who are intrigued, though often mystified, by the intellectual fantasies of Jorge Luis Borges will find this book a revelation, a skeleton key to one of the most fundamental and baffling aspects of Borges’s fictions: the pattern of symbolism with an inner meaning. Carter Wheelock’s study reduces a number of literary and intellectual abstractions to concrete terms, enabling the reader to understand Borges’s fantasies in ways that show them to be not so fantastic after all. Indeed, they are amazingly consistent and minutely accurate in their symbolic depiction of the magic universe of the mind. Wheelock also discusses the affinity between Borges’s philosophical idealism and his “esthetic of the intelligence,” the relationship between these and the esthetic ideas of French Symbolism, and the influence on his fictions of the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám. Why is it that this “writer’s writer” from the Argentine—erudite, allusive, elusive—has attracted such international attention? In Wheelock’s opinion, it is because he has symbolized in his short stories the fundamental form of the human consciousness, the functioning of the imaginative (world-creating) mechanism, and the eternal battle between form and chaos. The Mythmaker is concerned with elucidating the particulars of Borges’s fictional works, but even as it does so it also reveals their universality.

Mythmaker

Author : John Baxter
Publisher : Harper Entertainment
ISBN 13 : 9780380811885
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (118 download)

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Download or read book Mythmaker written by John Baxter and published by Harper Entertainment. This book was released on 2000-10 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These days it's hard to find someone who hasn't seen the Star Wars and Indiana Jones trilogies. Now the man behind those epic movies and numerous other blockbuster hits comes alive in this definitive biography that traces a shy, ambitious film student's transformation into one of the industry's most influential leaders. Acclaimed biographer John Baxter uncovers the roots of Lucas's enigmatic genius and independent spirit and shows how he joined with other idealists to found the new Hollywood, an effort that paved the way for the event picture, the phenomenon of product licensing, and ultimately the finest visual effects studio in the world. Drawing upon voluminous research and interviews with Lucas's friends and colleagues, Baxter gives us the clearest picture yet of an icon of popular culture who is recognized by many but understood by precious few.

Supernatural - Mythmaker

Author : Tim Waggoner
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 1783298545
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (832 download)

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Download or read book Supernatural - Mythmaker written by Tim Waggoner and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2016-07-26 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Teenager Renee Mendez is a talented artist living in a small Illinois town. She loves drawing the strange beings that feature in her dreams, without realizing that when she depicts them on paper, they come to life in the real world. These gods begin to seek worshippers and battle for supremacy, killing humans and each other until only the two strongest remain. Sam and Dean come to town to investigate the murders and “miracles” these new gods perform, slaying some of them in the process. The last two gods standing prepare for their final conflict, which only one will survive. The brothers must find a way to stop the gods’ war before the entire town is destroyed.

Charles Darwin

Author : A.N. Wilson
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062433512
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (624 download)

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Download or read book Charles Darwin written by A.N. Wilson and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2017-12-12 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A radical reappraisal of Charles Darwin from the bestselling author of Victoria: A Life. With the publication of On the Origin of Species, Charles Darwin—hailed as the man who "discovered evolution"—was propelled into the pantheon of great scientific thinkers, alongside Galileo, Copernicus, and Newton. Eminent writer A. N. Wilson challenges this long-held assumption. Contextualizing Darwin and his ideas, he offers a groundbreaking critical look at this revered figure in modern science. In this beautifully written, deeply erudite portrait, Wilson argues that Darwin was not an original scientific thinker, but a ruthless and determined self-promoter who did not credit the many great sages whose ideas he advanced in his book. Furthermore, Wilson contends that religion and Darwinism have much more in common than it would seem, for the acceptance of Darwin's theory involves a pretty significant leap of faith. Armed with an extraordinary breadth of knowledge, Wilson explores how Darwin and his theory were very much a product of their place and time. The "Survival of the Fittest" was really the Survival of Middle Class families like the Darwins—members of a relatively new economic strata who benefited from the rising Industrial Revolution at the expense of the working classes. Following Darwin’s theory, the wretched state of the poor was an outcome of nature, not the greed and neglect of the moneyed classes. In a paradigm-shifting conclusion, Wilson suggests that it remains to be seen, as this class dies out, whether the Darwinian idea will survive, or whether it, like other Victorian fads, will become a footnote in our intellectual history. Brilliant, daring, and ambitious, Charles Darwin explores this legendary man as never before, and challenges us to reconsider our understanding of both Darwin and modern science itself.

The Poet as Mythmaker

Author : George G. Grabowicz
Publisher : Harvard Ukrainian
ISBN 13 : 9780674678521
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (785 download)

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Download or read book The Poet as Mythmaker written by George G. Grabowicz and published by Harvard Ukrainian. This book was released on 1982 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of Symbolic Meaning in Taras Sevcenko. By virtue of its method of symbolic analysis this book will be of value not only to Slavists, but to all who are interested in rigorous study of literary myth in its broader cultural context.

Media Mythmakers

Author : Benjamin Radford
Publisher : Prometheus Books
ISBN 13 : 1615923349
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (159 download)

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Download or read book Media Mythmakers written by Benjamin Radford and published by Prometheus Books. This book was released on 2010-05 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This hard-hitting critique of media culture examines not only the ways in which the public is deceived, but the media's role in propagating those deceptions. Illustrations.

A Dictionary of African Mythology

Author : Harold Scheub
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780195124576
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (245 download)

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Download or read book A Dictionary of African Mythology written by Harold Scheub and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of fascinating and revealing tales captures the sprawling diversity of African mythology. Four hundred alphabetically arranged entries touch on virtually every aspect of African religious belief, from Africa's great epic themes (dualistic gods, divine tricksters, creator gods, and heroes) to descriptions of major mythic systems (the Dogon, the Asante, and the San) and beyond. Scheub covers the entire continent, from the mouth of the Nile to the shores of the Cape of Good Hope, including North African as well as sub-Saharan cultures. His retellings provide information about the respective belief system, the main characters, and related stories or variants. Perhaps most important, Scheub emphasizes the role of mythmaker as storyteller--as a performer for an audience. He studies various techniques, from the rhythmic movements of a Zulu mythmaker's hands to the way a storyteller will play on the familiar context of other myths within her cultural context. An invaluable bridge to the richly diverse oral cultures of Africa, this collection uncovers a place where story and storyteller, tradition and performance, all merge.

Five Myths About Nuclear Weapons

Author : Ward Wilson
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 0547858175
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (478 download)

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Download or read book Five Myths About Nuclear Weapons written by Ward Wilson and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2013-01-15 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Brilliant, original, and important—the best analysis yet of why nuclear weapons don’t work.” —Richard Rhodes, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb Nuclear weapons have always been a serious but seemingly insoluble problem: while they’re obviously dangerous, they are also, apparently, necessary. This groundbreaking study shows why five central arguments promoting nuclear weapons are, in essence, myths. It clears up such common misconceptions as . . . • Nuclear weapons necessarily shock and awe opponents, including Japan at the end of World War II • Nuclear deterrence is reliable in a crisis • Destruction wins wars • The bomb has kept the peace for sixty-five years • We can’t put the nuclear genie back in the bottle Drawing on new information and the latest historical research, Wilson poses a fundamental challenge to the myths on which nuclear weapons policy is currently built. Using pragmatic arguments and an unemotional, clear-eyed insistence on the truth, he arrives at a surprising conclusion: nuclear weapons are enormously dangerous, but don’t appear to be terribly useful. In that case, he asks, why would we want to keep them? This book will be widely read and discussed by everyone who cares about war, peace, foreign policy, and security in the twenty-first century. “Magisterial in its sweep, research, and erudition, yet written in a direct, unstuffy style, which makes it an easy read.” —Commander Robert D. Green, Royal Navy (ret.) “This slim, persuasively argued, tightly written book provides much food for thought and could make some readers radically change their perceptions about nuclear weapons.” —Booklist

Myths and Myths-makers

Author : John Fiske
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (129 download)

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Download or read book Myths and Myths-makers written by John Fiske and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Myth of the Maker (the Strange)

Author : Bruce Cordell
Publisher : HarperCollins Audio
ISBN 13 : 9780857666499
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (664 download)

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Download or read book Myth of the Maker (the Strange) written by Bruce Cordell and published by HarperCollins Audio. This book was released on 2017-04-01 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Mythmaker

Author : Carter Wheelock
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292785704
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)

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Download or read book The Mythmaker written by Carter Wheelock and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2013-12-06 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Readers who are intrigued, though often mystified, by the intellectual fantasies of Jorge Luis Borges will find this book a revelation, a skeleton key to one of the most fundamental and baffling aspects of Borges’s fictions: the pattern of symbolism with an inner meaning. Carter Wheelock’s study reduces a number of literary and intellectual abstractions to concrete terms, enabling the reader to understand Borges’s fantasies in ways that show them to be not so fantastic after all. Indeed, they are amazingly consistent and minutely accurate in their symbolic depiction of the magic universe of the mind. Wheelock also discusses the affinity between Borges’s philosophical idealism and his “esthetic of the intelligence,” the relationship between these and the esthetic ideas of French Symbolism, and the influence on his fictions of the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám. Why is it that this “writer’s writer” from the Argentine—erudite, allusive, elusive—has attracted such international attention? In Wheelock’s opinion, it is because he has symbolized in his short stories the fundamental form of the human consciousness, the functioning of the imaginative (world-creating) mechanism, and the eternal battle between form and chaos. The Mythmaker is concerned with elucidating the particulars of Borges’s fictional works, but even as it does so it also reveals their universality.