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Myth

Author : Robert Alan Segal
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0198724705
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (987 download)

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Download or read book Myth written by Robert Alan Segal and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2015 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Where do myths come from? What is their function and what do they mean? In this Very Short Introduction Robert Segal introduces the array of approaches used to understand the study of myth. These approaches hail from disciplines as varied as anthropology, sociology, psychology, literary criticism, philosophy, science, and religious studies. Including ideas from theorists as varied as Sigmund Freud, Claude Levi-Strauss, Albert Camus, and Roland Barthes, Segal uses the famous ancient myth of Adonis to analyse their individual approaches and theories. In this new edition, he not only considers the future study of myth, but also considers the interactions of myth theory with cognitive science, the implications of the myth of Gaia, and the differences between story-telling and myth. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.

Myth, Literature, and the Unconscious

Author : Sanja Bahun
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429916450
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book Myth, Literature, and the Unconscious written by Sanja Bahun and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-05-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At a time when the place and significance of myth in society has come under renewed scrutiny, Myth, Literature, and the Unconscious contributes to shaping the new interdisciplinary field of myth studies. The editors find in psychoanalysis a natural and necessary ally for investigations in myth and myth-informed literature and the arts. At the same time the collection re-values myths and myth-based cultural products as vital aids to the discipline and practice of psychoanalysis. The volume spans a vast geo-cultural range (including ancient Egypt, India, Japan, nineteenth-century France, and twentieth-century Germany) and investigates cultural products from the Mahabharata to J. W. Goethe's opus and eighteenth-century Japanese fiction, and from William Blake's visionary poetry to contemporary blockbuster television series. It encompasses mythic topics and figures such as Oedipus, Orpheus, the Scapegoat, and the Hero, while mobilising Freudian, Jungian, object relations, and Lacanian psychoanalytic approaches.

Myth, Truth and Literature

Author : Colin Falck
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521467513
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (675 download)

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Download or read book Myth, Truth and Literature written by Colin Falck and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1994-08-26 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Colin Falck's book has had a widespread influence since it first appeared in 1989. Hailed as a work that alters the way we think about literary theory and its institutionalisation in America and Britain, it is a philosophically informed account of the 'paradigm-shift' required to replaced structuralism and post-structuralism as modes of perceiving literature and related culture. Falck now supplements this second paperback edition with an appendix and other new material.

Myth and Literature

Author : William Righter
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1040027717
Total Pages : 137 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Myth and Literature written by William Righter and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-05-01 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1975, Myth and Literature considers three points at which the concept of myth has entered modern literary imagination: the use of myth – or atleast their understanding of myth -- as a creative opening by modern writers, its exploration by critics as an interpretive device, and the analogy between certain ‘sense-making’ functions of ‘myth’, ‘fiction’ and literature itself. All three of these roles show the gradual movement from a point of precise demand to a diffuse and variable concept which is more pervasive because less distinct. The paradox of myth is shown to lie in its simultaneity of its corruption with the growth of its power over the modern literary mind. This book will be of interest to students of literature and history.

Myth, Literature and the African World

Author : Wole Soyinka
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521398343
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (983 download)

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Download or read book Myth, Literature and the African World written by Wole Soyinka and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1990-09-13 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wole Soyinka, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, here analyses the interconnecting worlds of myth, ritual and literature in Africa.

Music and Myth in Modern Literature

Author : Josh Torabi
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000294625
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Music and Myth in Modern Literature written by Josh Torabi and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-12-20 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first major study that explores the intrinsic connection between music and myth, as Nietzsche conceived of it in The Birth of Tragedy (1872), in three great works of modern literature: Romain Rolland’s Nobel Prize winning novel Jean-Christophe (1904-12), James Joyce’s modernist epic Ulysses (1922), and Thomas Mann’s late masterpiece Doctor Faustus (1947). Juxtaposing Nietzsche’s conception of the Apollonian and Dionysian with narrative depictions of music and myth, Josh Torabi challenges the common view that the latter half of The Birth of Tragedy is of secondary importance to the first. Informed by a deep knowledge of Nietzsche’s early aesthetics, the book goes on to offer a fresh and original perspective on Ulysses and Doctor Faustus, two world-famous novels that are rarely discussed together, and makes the case for the significance of Jean-Christophe, which has been unfairly neglected in the Anglophone world, despite Rolland’s status as a major figure in twentieth-century intellectual and literary history. This unique study reveals new depths to the work of our most enduring writers and thinkers.

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.

Wolves and the Wolf Myth in American Literature

Author : S.K. Robisch
Publisher : University of Nevada Press
ISBN 13 : 087417774X
Total Pages : 746 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (741 download)

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Download or read book Wolves and the Wolf Myth in American Literature written by S.K. Robisch and published by University of Nevada Press. This book was released on 2009-05-28 with total page 746 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The wolf is one of the most widely distributed canid species, historically ranging throughout most of the Northern Hemisphere. For millennia, it has also been one of the most pervasive images in human mythology, art, and psychology. Wolves and the Wolf Myth in American Literature examines the wolf’s importance as a figure in literature from the perspectives of both the animal’s physical reality and the ways in which writers imagine and portray it. Author S. K. Robisch examines more than two hundred texts written in North America about wolves or including them as central figures. From this foundation, he demonstrates the wolf’s role as an archetype in the collective unconscious, its importance in our national culture, and its ecological value. Robisch takes a multidisciplinary approach to his study, employing a broad range of sources: myths and legends from around the world; symbology; classic and popular literature; films; the work of scientists in a number of disciplines; human psychology; and field work conducted by himself and others. By combining the fundamentals of scientific study with close readings of wide-ranging literary texts, Robisch astutely analyzes the correlation between actual, living wolves and their representation on the page and in the human mind. He also considers the relationship between literary art and the natural world, and argues for a new approach to literary study, an ecocriticism that moves beyond anthropocentrism to examine the complicated relationship between humans and nature.

The Goddess Myth in Contemporary Literature and Popular Culture

Author : Mary J. Magoulick
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 149683707X
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (968 download)

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Download or read book The Goddess Myth in Contemporary Literature and Popular Culture written by Mary J. Magoulick and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2022-02-04 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Honorable Mention for the 2022 Elli Köngäs-Maranda Prize awarded by the Women's Section of the American Folklore Society Goddess characters are revered as feminist heroes in the popular media of many cultures. However, these goddess characters often prove to be less promising and more regressive than most people initially perceive. Goddesses in film, television, and fiction project worldviews and messages that reflect mostly patriarchal culture (included essentialized gender assumptions), in contrast to the feminist, empowering levels many fans and critics observe. Building on critiques of other skeptical scholars, this feminist, folkloristic approach deepens how our remythologizing of the ancient past reflects a contemporary worldview and rhetoric. Structures of contemporary goddess myths often fit typical extremes as either vilified, destructive, dark, and chaotic (typical in film or television); or romanticized, positive, even utopian (typical in women’s speculative fiction). This goddess spectrum persistently essentializes gender, stereotyping women as emotional, intuitive, sexual, motherly beings (good or bad), precluded from complex potential and fuller natures. Within apparent good-over-evil, pop-culture narrative frames, these goddesses all suffer significantly. However, a few recent intersectional writers, like N. K. Jemisin, break through these dark reflections of contemporary power dynamics to offer complex characters who evince “hopepunk.” They resist typical simplified, reductionist absolutes to offer messages that resonate with potential for today’s world. Mythic narratives featuring goddesses often do, but need not, serve merely as ideological mirrors of our culture’s still problematically reductionist approach to women and all humanity.

Myth and Archive

Author : Roberto González Echevarría
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780822321941
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (219 download)

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Download or read book Myth and Archive written by Roberto González Echevarría and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the theory of the origin and evolution of the Latin American narrative and the emergence of the modern novel.

The Ancient Book of Myth and War

Author : Scott Morse
Publisher : Adhouse Books
ISBN 13 : 9780977471515
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (715 download)

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Download or read book The Ancient Book of Myth and War written by Scott Morse and published by Adhouse Books. This book was released on 2007-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Ancient Book of Myth and War presents to you a time capsule, a glimpse into a strange and wondrous world, where myths and legends still roam freely and wars rage in the hearts and minds of the noble and the feeble alike. Experiments in color, shape, line and composition enrich each and every page, accompanied by text that will enlighten the audience with atmospheric facts concerning origins, eras and even media used in the production of the art itself. The Ancient Book of Myth and War is a fine art hardcover collection of images produced by some of the most highly sophisticated animation designers in the industry.

Myth and Literature

Author : John B. Vickery
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803252080
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Myth and Literature written by John B. Vickery and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1969-01-01 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of thirty-four major essays devoted to the theories, methods, and problems of myth criticism offers a convenient and substantial introduction to one of the most distinctive trends in contemporary literary study. The essays (many of them previously uncollected) are arranged to lead from general considerations to analyses of specific authors. The four Part I selections constitute an informal survey of the views of myth and ritual taken by disciplines other than literature. In Part II the first six essays relate the concept of myth and ritual to general literary theory, while the final three evaluate the uses of myth in critical theory and practice. The twenty-one Part III essays, which apply myth criticism to individual literary works or authors, afford a representative sampling of the mythopoeic patterns discerned in literature from Home to Faulkner. Among the contributors are: David Bidney, Gäza R¢heim, Joseph Campbell, Clyde Kluckhohn, Stanley Hyman, Philip Wheelwright, Richard Chase, Harold Watts, Northrop Frye, Andrew Lytle, Philip Rahv, Francis Fergusson, Marvin Magalaner, John Lydenberg, and Harry Slochower.

South Pacific Literature

Author : Subramani
Publisher : [email protected]
ISBN 13 : 9789820200807
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book South Pacific Literature written by Subramani and published by [email protected]. This book was released on 1992 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Myth and Mythmaking

Author : Henry Alexander Murray
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Myth and Mythmaking written by Henry Alexander Murray and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays by Thomas Mann, Philips Rieff, Mircea Eliade, and a dozen other contributors on myths in life and literature, many originally published in "Daedalus" by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Classical Mythology: A Very Short Introduction

Author : Helen Morales
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191579335
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)

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Download or read book Classical Mythology: A Very Short Introduction written by Helen Morales and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2007-08-23 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Zeus and Europa, to Diana, Pan, and Prometheus, the myths of ancient Greece and Rome seem to exert a timeless power over us. But what do those myths represent, and why are they so enduringly fascinating? Why do they seem to be such a potent way of talking about our selves, our origins, and our desires? This imaginative and stimulating Very Short Introduction goes beyond a simple retelling of the stories to explore the rich history and diverse interpretations of classical myths. It is a wide-ranging account, examining how classical myths are used and understood in both high art and popular culture, taking the reader from the temples of Crete to skyscrapers in New York, and finding classical myths in a variety of unexpected places: from arabic poetry and Hollywood films, to psychoanalysis, the bible, and New Age spiritualism. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.

The Poetics of Myth

Author : Eleazar M. Meletinsky
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135599068
Total Pages : 517 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (355 download)

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Download or read book The Poetics of Myth written by Eleazar M. Meletinsky and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-01-21 with total page 517 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Myth and Literature in the American Renaissance

Author : Robert D. Richardson
Publisher : Bloomington : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Myth and Literature in the American Renaissance written by Robert D. Richardson and published by Bloomington : Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1978 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are perhaps as many definitions of myth as of romanticism, but a renewed interest in myth as "authentic tidings of invisible things" is one of the most commonly remarked characteristics of early nineteenth-century literature. American writers from Emerson to Melville were very well read in myth and in mythic theory and were highly conscious of myth as a subject of special interest to the age. Richardson shows how our major writers consciously understood and used myth. - Jacket flap.