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| Author | : Padma Malini Sundararaghavan |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 283 |
| Release | : 2013 |
| Genre | : Postcolonialism in literature |
| ISBN | : 9788125050230 |
Studies on Ngugi wa Thiong'o's Matigari, Witi Ihimaera's The matriarch, Shashi Tharoor's The great Indian novel, and Salman Rushdie's Midnight's children.
| Author | : Robert Clarke |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 196 |
| Release | : 1984-12-06 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1349176885 |
| Author | : Jean Holm |
| Publisher | : Burns & Oates |
| Total Pages | : 220 |
| Release | : 1994 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : |
Considerable work has been done on the European exploration of myth, first in the Renaissance and then in the nineteenth century. This book covers an area that is new territory by looking at ways in which this work can contribute to an understanding of the primacy of myth in religious life. The authors examine the idea of 'mythistory' - the complex relationship in religions between myth and history - and explore the different ways in which religious storytelling is related to the particular enterprise of storytelling that is called history.
| Author | : Kath Filmer-Davies |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 190 |
| Release | : 1996-12-13 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1349249912 |
This book examines how contemporary fantasy literature offers critical insights into western society and culture by drawing on the ancient myths of Wales. These books emphasise the need to have a set of social and personal values in order to be free from a sense of dislocation and alienation in a highly technologised society and in order to satisfy the sense of 'hiraeth' or longing for a place where one truly belongs.
| Author | : Nilanjan Chakraborty |
| Publisher | : Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 262 |
| Release | : 2020-09-28 |
| Genre | : Art |
| ISBN | : 1527560031 |
This book studies culture in terms of myths and how they function to construct the identity of communities. It focuses on myth formation in the fiction of Chinua Achebe and Amitav Ghosh, two major twentieth century authors from Nigeria and India respectively. The book analyses how these two authors use myth in their works to study the cultural mores of the societies they represent. Achebe represents the Igbo community of Nigeria and Amitav Ghosh represents various communities in India in both the pre-colonial and postcolonial phases, ranging from Bihar to Sundarbans in south Bengal. The book focuses on the area of myth studies in the postcolonial area of study, delving into a comparative study between the two authors and how they contribute to myth studies through their fiction.
| Author | : Alexander Lyon Macfie |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 221 |
| Release | : 2014-08-13 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1317681746 |
The Fiction of History sets out a number of themes in the relationship between history and fiction, emphasising the tensions and dilemmas created in this relationship and examining how various writers have dealt with these. In the first part, two chapters discuss the philosophy behind the connection between fiction and history, whether history is fiction, and the distinction between the past and history. Part two goes on to discuss the relationship between history and literature using case studies such as Virginia Woolf and Charles Dickens. Part three looks at television and film (as well as other media) through case studies such as the film Welcome to Sarajevo and Soviet and Australian films. Part four considers a particular theme that has prominence in both history and literature, postcolonial studies, focusing on the issues of fictions of nationhood and civilization and the historical novel in postcolonial contexts. Finally, the fifth section comprises two interviews with novelists Penelope Lively and Adam Thorpe and discusses the ways in which their works explore the nature of history itself.
| Author | : Robert Graves |
| Publisher | : Rosetta Books |
| Total Pages | : 414 |
| Release | : 2014-05-15 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 0795337159 |
The I, Claudius author’s “lightning sharp interpretations and insights . . . are here brought to bear with equal effectiveness on the Book of Genesis” (Kirkus Reviews). This is a comprehensive look at the stories that make up the Old Testament and the Jewish religion, including the folk tales, apocryphal texts, midrashes, and other little-known documents that the Old Testament and the Torah do not include. In this exhaustive study, Robert Graves provides a fascinating account of pre-Biblical texts that have been censored, suppressed, and hidden for centuries, and which now emerge to give us a clearer view of Hebrew myth and religion than ever. Venerable classicist and historian Robert Graves recounts the ancient Hebrew stories, both obscure and familiar, with a rich sense of storytelling, culture, and spirituality. This book is sure to be riveting to students of Jewish or Judeo-Christian history, culture, and religion.
| Author | : Adam Attwood |
| Publisher | : BoD – Books on Demand |
| Total Pages | : 132 |
| Release | : 2024-09-11 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 0854665692 |
Comics and graphic novels are important components of popular culture and have international influence. They engage readers across all age groups and across fiction and non-fiction genres. They address many cultural and social ideas, histories, languages, and concepts with engaging stories and narratives. This book provides international perspectives on comics and graphic novels in various contexts for education that may inform social cognition, curriculum theory, and cultural studies. Interdisciplinary perspectives are highlighted to showcase research, theory, and practices in the use of comics and graphic novels. Complexity within this genre is discussed to provide new and updated perspectives on the theory and practice of comics and graphic novels for their reflection of and influence on culture, their multimodal role in content area literacy, and their influence across social contexts.
| Author | : Robert Graves |
| Publisher | : Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
| Total Pages | : 516 |
| Release | : 1966-01-01 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 9780374504939 |
The White Goddess is perhaps the finest of Robert Graves's works on the psychological and mythological sources of poetry. In this tapestry of poetic and religious scholarship, Graves explores the stories behind the earliest of European deities—the White Goddess of Birth, Love, and Death—who was worshipped under countless titles. He also uncovers the obscure and mysterious power of "pure poetry" and its peculiar and mythic language.
| Author | : Marlon James |
| Publisher | : Riverhead Books |
| Total Pages | : 706 |
| Release | : 2015-09-08 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1594633940 |
A tale inspired by the 1976 attempted assassination of Bob Marley spans decades and continents to explore the experiences of journalists, drug dealers, killers, and ghosts against a backdrop of social and political turmoil.
