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| Author | : Robert Alan Segal |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
| Total Pages | : 161 |
| Release | : 2015 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 0198724705 |
This Very Short Introduction explores different approaches to myth from several disciplines, including science, religion, philosophy, literature, and psychology. In this new edition, Robert Segal considers both the future study of myth as well as the impact of areas such as cognitive science and the latest approaches to narrative theory.
| Author | : Leon Burnett |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 329 |
| Release | : 2018-05-01 |
| Genre | : Psychology |
| ISBN | : 0429916450 |
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.
| Author | : John B. Vickery |
| Publisher | : U of Nebraska Press |
| Total Pages | : 32 |
| Release | : 1969-01-01 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 9780803252080 |
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.
| Author | : William Righter |
| Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
| Total Pages | : 137 |
| Release | : 2024-05-01 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1040027717 |
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.
| Author | : Jean-Luc Nancy |
| Publisher | : U of Minnesota Press |
| Total Pages | : 226 |
| Release | : 1991 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 9780816619245 |
A collection of five essays of French philosopher Nancy, originally published in 1985-86: The Inoperative Community, Myth Interpreted, Literary Communism, Shattered Love, and Of Divine Places. A paper edition (1924-7) is available for $14.95. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
| Author | : Henry Alexander Murray |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 398 |
| Release | : 1960 |
| Genre | : Mythology |
| ISBN | : |
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.
| Author | : Wole Soyinka |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 196 |
| Release | : 1990-09-13 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780521398343 |
Wole Soyinka, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, here analyses the interconnecting worlds of myth, ritual and literature in Africa.
| Author | : Daniel W. Berman |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 201 |
| Release | : 2015-02-12 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1316240703 |
How does a city's legendary past affect its present? Thebes remains a city with one of the richest traditions of myth in all of Greece - it was the home of Cadmus, Oedipus, and Hercules, and the traditional birthplace of Dionysus. The city's topography, both natural and built, very often plays a significant role in its myths. By focusing on Greek literature ranging from the oral epics to the travel writing of the Roman Empire, this book explores the relationship between the city's spaces as they were represented in the Greek literary tradition and the physical realities of a developing city that had been continuously inhabited since at least the second millennium BC. Spurred on especially by the city's catastrophic sack by Alexander the Great in 335 BC, the urban topography of Thebes came more and more to reflect the literary, even fictional, constructions of its mythic past.
| Author | : Andrea Grafetstätter |
| Publisher | : Peter Lang |
| Total Pages | : 196 |
| Release | : 2011 |
| Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
| ISBN | : 9783631611654 |
"The studies presented in this book derive from a series of sessions held at the annual International Medieval Congress in Leeds, UK...Four sessions, held from 2004 to 2006, bore the title 'Islands of the World and the Seven Seas in Medieval Myth and History', and three in 2007 the title 'Cities, Myths and Literatures'...The stated objective of the island sessions was the location of a 'starting point for a new investigation into the possible impact that myths and other fictitious stories about insular wonderlands had on the reasons why medieval men and women undertook their various missions, searches and explorations that finally led to the discovery of the New World.' Similarly, the cities sessions 'intended to find new connections between ancient myths and medieval constructions of real or imagined cities in literature'."--editors' pref. p.7
| Author | : Samuel Noah Kramer |
| Publisher | : Wipf and Stock Publishers |
| Total Pages | : 283 |
| Release | : 2020-08-18 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1725282895 |
This ambitious and well-researched study brings together for the first time translations of the ancient literature concerning the Sumerian god Enki, one of four gods and goddesses who comprised the highest level of the Sumerian pantheon. The very existence of these writings, which date from the Third Millennium B.C., was unknown until about 100 years ago, when their cuneiform script was deciphered. Since then, it has become apparent that Sumerian literature had a profound and enduring influence on both Biblical and classical Greek literature, and so on the literature of the western world as a whole. Kramer, one of the world's leading sumerologists, has prepared these translations from among the scores of works he has published over the last fifty years; John Maier provides a full interpretive framework that places the translations in their broader comparative cultural context. This rare collection will be of interest to students and scholars in a wide range of disciplines from Near Eastern and Biblical Studies to Mythology and Comparative Literature.
