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The Presence of Myth

Author : Leszek Kolakowski
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022622225X
Total Pages : 151 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (262 download)

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Download or read book The Presence of Myth written by Leszek Kolakowski and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2010-11-16 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "[An] important essay by a philosopher who more convincingly than any other I can think of demonstrates the continuing significance of his vocation in the life of our culture."—Karsten Harries, The New York Times Book Review With The Presence of Myth, Kolakowski demonstrates that no matter how hard man strives for purely rational thought, there has always been-and always will be-a reservoir of mythical images that lend "being" and "consciousness" a specifically human meaning. "Kolakowski undertakes a philosophy of culture which extends to all realms of human intercourse—intellectual, artistic, scientific, and emotional. . . . [His] book has real significance for today, and may well become a classic in the philosophy of culture."—Anglican Theological Review

The Presence of Myth

Author : Leszek Kołakowski
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (615 download)

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Download or read book The Presence of Myth written by Leszek Kołakowski and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Presence and Power of the Hero Theme in Cultural Myth. A Reflection of a Culture's Values?

Author : Anthony Jaramillo
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3668201226
Total Pages : 17 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (682 download)

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Book Synopsis The Presence and Power of the Hero Theme in Cultural Myth. A Reflection of a Culture's Values? by : Anthony Jaramillo

Download or read book The Presence and Power of the Hero Theme in Cultural Myth. A Reflection of a Culture's Values? written by Anthony Jaramillo and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2016-04-20 with total page 17 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essay from the year 2015 in the subject Cultural Studies - Basics and Definitions, grade: 1, , course: Mythology, language: English, abstract: In this study the author explores how myths can reveal a culture’s value system and what they believe an ideal member of their society would be like. Though there are many similarities between the hero myths from each culture, their differences are what will convey the unique attributes and beliefs of a specific culture. This research addresses issues of myth origins and the social interplay between myth and the individuals of a culture. The hero myth has always played a major role in popular culture and has influenced thousands of stories that have been told and written in novels, movies, as well as comic books. The hero figure is so deeply embedded in the collective social conscience that it is hard to believe what a society would look like without it. Because of the profound impact the hero has on a culture, a researched study on its influence at the individual, societal and even global level yields an abundance of information that inform other areas of study such as psychology, religiosity, biology and many more.

Greek Myth and Western Art

Author : Karl Kilinski
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107013321
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Greek Myth and Western Art written by Karl Kilinski and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This richly illustrated book examines the legacy of Greek mythology in Western art from the classical era to the present. Tracing the emergence, survival, and transformation of key mythological figures and motifs from ancient Greece through the modern era, it explores the enduring importance of such myths for artists and viewers in their own time and over the millennia that followed.

Myth and Music

Author : Eero Tarasti
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 9789027979186
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (791 download)

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Download or read book Myth and Music written by Eero Tarasti and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 1979 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No detailed description available for "Myth and Music".

The Powers of Presence

Author : Robert Plant Armstrong
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 1512800074
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (128 download)

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Download or read book The Powers of Presence written by Robert Plant Armstrong and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2015-09-30 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chiefly considering African and Upper Paleolithic work, Armstrong demonstrates that concepts of beauty, truth, and excellence are irrelevant in developing the aesthetic of a specific culture. By developing a unique aesthetic typology, he offers a reinterpretation of non-Western art that integrates human consciousness and its reification as art. More than eighty handsome photographs and drawings are included.

The Myth of Sisyphus And Other Essays

Author : Albert Camus
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307827828
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book The Myth of Sisyphus And Other Essays written by Albert Camus and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2012-10-31 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most influential works of this century, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays is a crucial exposition of existentialist thought. Influenced by works such as Don Juan and the novels of Kafka, these essays begin with a meditation on suicide; the question of living or not living in a universe devoid of order or meaning. With lyric eloquence, Albert Camus brilliantly posits a way out of despair, reaffirming the value of personal existence, and the possibility of life lived with dignity and authenticity.

Bible Student and Religious Outlook

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 818 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Bible Student and Religious Outlook written by and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 818 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Myth and Philosophy in Plato's Phaedrus

Author : Daniel S. Werner
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107021286
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Myth and Philosophy in Plato's Phaedrus written by Daniel S. Werner and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-07-09 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the role of myth in Plato's Phaedrus, arguing that it leads readers to participate in Plato's dialogues and to engage in self-examination.

Riting Myth, Mythic Writing

Author : Dennis Patrick Slattery
Publisher : Fisher King Press
ISBN 13 : 1926715772
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (267 download)

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Download or read book Riting Myth, Mythic Writing written by Dennis Patrick Slattery and published by Fisher King Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Riting Myth, Mythic Writing: Plotting Your Personal Story is a both a theoretical as well as interactive book on the nature of personal myth. Its intention is to offer participants who wish to explore further the terms and structure of their personal myth over 80 writing meditations that are spread throughout 9 chapters in order to guide the readers-writers on a pilgrimage into the deepest layers of their personal myth.

Philosophy, Religious Studies, and Myth

Author : Robert A. Segal
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135610614
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (356 download)

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Download or read book Philosophy, Religious Studies, and Myth written by Robert A. Segal and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-07-16 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Much of the theorizing about myth in philosophy and religious studies grows out of efforts to understand the classics and the Bible. In the case of the classics, the presence of myth has been taken for granted, and conclusions reached about Greek and Roman mythology have spurred generalizations about myth. In the case of the Bible, however, the existence of myth has been contested. In fact, Judaism and Christianity are regularly praised for their nonmythic outlook. Conclusions reached about the presence or absence of myth in either the Hebrew Bible or the New Testament have led to generalizations about myth per se. Many of the essays in this volume apply theories of myth to classical, biblical, and ancient Near Eastern cases, but in so doing they draw conclusions about the nature of myth itself. Those essays that criticize past applications make generalizations as weIl. By no means has aIl theorizing about myth from philosophy and religious studies centered on the ancient world, and this volume contains selections from theories in both disciplines that stern from reflections on the nature of science, language, knowledge, and reality.

the Man Behind the Myth Seeing Jesus as He Really is

Author : Rodney M. Howard-Browne
Publisher : Thomas Nelson Inc
ISBN 13 : 1418552496
Total Pages : 451 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (185 download)

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Download or read book the Man Behind the Myth Seeing Jesus as He Really is written by Rodney M. Howard-Browne and published by Thomas Nelson Inc. This book was released on with total page 451 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Modern Novel in the Presence of Myth

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (917 download)

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Download or read book The Modern Novel in the Presence of Myth written by and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

New World Myth

Author : Marie Vautier
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773516697
Total Pages : 365 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (735 download)

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Book Synopsis New World Myth by : Marie Vautier

Download or read book New World Myth written by Marie Vautier and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1998 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this comparative study of six Canadian novels Marie Vautier examines reworkings of myth in the postcolonial context. While myths are frequently used in literature as transhistorical master narratives, she argues that these novels destabilize the traditional function of myth in their self-conscious reexamination of historical events from a postcolonial perspective. Through detailed readings of François Barcelo's La Tribu, George Bowering's Burning Water, Jacques Godbout's Les Têtes à Papineau, Joy Kogawa's Obasan, Jovette Marchessault's Comme une enfant de la terre, and Rudy Wiebe's The Scorched-Wood People, Vautier situates New World myth within the broader contexts of political history and of classical, biblical, and historical myths.

The Methods of the Gernet Classicists (RLE Myth)

Author : Roland A. Champagne
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317555929
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (175 download)

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Download or read book The Methods of the Gernet Classicists (RLE Myth) written by Roland A. Champagne and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-03-05 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Gernet Centre was founded as a place where the structural method could be applied to the classics. ‘Structuralists’ attribute the survival, origin and function of myths to common crosscultural factors they identify as ‘structures’. As this book, first published as The Structuralists on Myth in 1992 explains, these structures are bundles of information not obvious either to the narrator or to the listener. The bundles are collected features that reveal either the reasons for the survival of myths, or their origins, or their functions within their contexts. The structuralists consider themselves to have talents as the collectors from myths of these bundles of information.

Jesus and Myth

Author : Peter John Barber
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1725253941
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (252 download)

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Download or read book Jesus and Myth written by Peter John Barber and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2021-02-15 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is Jesus mythological? And is he a mere product of his cultural milieu? Through narratological and social-scientific analysis of the gospel account, Barber systematically demonstrates that there are two opposing patterns structuring the gospel. The first is the pattern of this world, which is the combat myth, with a typical sequence of motifs having mythological meanings. It is lived out by everyone else in the accounts except Jesus, because this pattern of the world is the pattern of myth-culture, which is the pattern of the old Adam and sin nature. The pattern of Jesus is the pattern intended for Adam to walk in, and is the unique pattern of the new Adam, Jesus Christ. Jesus’s pattern inverts the sequence and subverts the significance of each and every motif and episode of the myth-culture’s pattern. Barber shows that Jesus’s “failure” to conform to this world’s mythological pattern establishes that he is not mythological, and not a product of his culture. As the apostle Peter states, “. . . we did not follow cleverly devised tales [myths] when we made known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but we were eyewitnesses of his majesty” (2 Pet 1:16).

The Metamorphoses of Myth in Fiction since 1960

Author : Kathryn Hume
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1501359894
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book The Metamorphoses of Myth in Fiction since 1960 written by Kathryn Hume and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2020-02-20 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why do contemporary writers use myths from ancient Greece and Rome, Pharaonic Egypt, the Viking north, Africa's west coast, and Hebrew and Christian traditions? What do these stories from premodern cultures have to offer us? The Metamorphoses of Myth in Fiction since 1960 examines how myth has shaped writings by Kathy Acker, Margaret Atwood, William S. Burroughs, A. S. Byatt, Neil Gaiman, Norman Mailer, Toni Morrison, Thomas Pynchon, Kurt Vonnegut, Jeanette Winterson, and others, and contrasts such canonical texts with fantasy, speculative fiction, post-singularity fiction, pornography, horror, and graphic narratives. These artistic practices produce a feeling of meaning that doesn't need to be defined in scientific or materialist terms. Myth provides a sense of rightness, a recognition of matching a pattern, a feeling of something missing, a feeling of connection. It not only allows poetic density but also manipulates our moral judgments, or at least stimulates us to exercise them. Working across genres, populations, and critical perspectives, Kathryn Hume elicits an understanding of the current uses of mythology in fiction.