Myth and Mythmaking
Author | : Henry Alexander Murray |
Publisher | : Beacon Press (MA) |
Total Pages | : 394 |
Release | : 1968 |
Genre | : Reference |
ISBN | : |
Download Myths And Mythmaking full books in PDF, epub, and Kindle. Read online free Myths And Mythmaking ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. Fast Download speed and no annoying ads. We cannot guarantee that every ebooks is available!
Author | : Henry Alexander Murray |
Publisher | : Beacon Press (MA) |
Total Pages | : 394 |
Release | : 1968 |
Genre | : Reference |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Julia Leslie |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 195 |
Release | : 2014-02-04 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1136778810 |
Essays focusing on some of the ways in which myths have been made, and made to function, in the rich cultural history of India from the dawn of history through to the present day.
Author | : Michael A. Fishbane |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 486 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780199284207 |
This is a comprehensive study of myth in the Hebrew Bible and myth and mythmaking in classical rabbinic literature (Midrash and Talmud) and in the classical work of medieval Jewish mysticism (the book of Zohar). Michael Fishbane provides a close study of the texts and theologies involved and the central role of exegesis in the development and transformation of the subject. Taken up are issues of myth and monotheism, myth and tradition, and myth and language. The presence and vitality of myth in successive cultural phases is treated, emphasizing certain paradigmatic acts of God and features of the divine personality.
Author | : Züleyha Çetiner-Öktem |
Publisher | : Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Total Pages | : 375 |
Release | : 2016-04-26 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 1443892467 |
This volume explores the dynamics of myths throughout time and space, along with the mythmaking processes in various cultures, literatures and languages, in a wide range of fields, ranging from cultural studies to the history of art. The papers brought together here are motivated by two basic questions: How are myths made in diverse cultures and literatures? And, do all different cultures have different myths to be told in their artistic pursuits? To examine these questions, the book offers a wide array of articles by contributors from various cultures which focus on theory, history, space/ place, philosophy, literature, language, gender, and storytelling. Mythmaking across Boundaries not only brings together classical myths, but also contemporary constructions and reconstructions through different cultural perspectives by transcending boundaries. Using a wide spectrum of perspectives, this volume, instead of emphasising the different modes of the mythmaking process, connects numerous perceptions of mythmaking and investigates diversities among cultures, languages and literatures, viewing them as a unified whole. As the essays reflect on both academic and popular texts, the book will be useful to scholars and students, as well as the general reader.
Author | : Julia Leslie |
Publisher | : Psychology Press |
Total Pages | : 204 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Hindu mythology |
ISBN | : 9780700703036 |
The starting point for this work is that myths are made and remade - on a variety of topics and in widely differing contexts - in a vast continuum stretching from the earliest periods of historical time to the present day. Each section of the work focuses on one particular point in this continuum to show some of the ways in which myths have been made, and made to function, in the rich cultural history of India.
Author | : Roland Barthes |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 2013-03-12 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 0809071940 |
"This new edition of MYTHOLOGIES is the first complete, authoritative English version of the French classic, Roland Barthes's most emblematic work"--
Author | : Howard Bruce Franklin |
Publisher | : Rutgers University Press |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780813520018 |
This paperback edition of M.I.A. or Mythmaking in America adds major new material about Ross Perot's role, the 1991-1992 Senate investigation, and illegal operations authorized by Ronald Reagan. "An important and compelling book. . . . Franklin raises and answers all of the hardest questions about an enduring piece of political mythology."--The Philadelphia Inquirer "A calm and thoughtful book on a firestorm of a subject. . . . Intelligent, provocative, and courageous."--Kirkus Reviews
Author | : Philip Ball |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 437 |
Release | : 2022-10-17 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0226823849 |
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.
Author | : G. S. Kirk |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 314 |
Release | : 1973-06-08 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0520023897 |
This book, developed out of the 1969 Sather lectures at Berkeley, California, confronts a wide range of problems concerning the nature, meaning and functions of myths. Professor Kirk's aim is to introduce a degree of coherence and of critical awareness into a subject that arouses profound interest today, but which for too long has been the target of excessive theorizing and interdisciplinary confusion between anthropologists, sociologists, classicists, philosophers and psychologists. Professor Kirk begins by discussing the relation of myths to rituals and folktales, and the weakness of universalist theories of function. He then subjects Lévi-Strauss's structuralist theory to an extended exposition and criticism; he considers the character and meaning of ancient Near Eastern myths, their influence on Greece, and the special forms with rational modes of thought, and finally, he assesses the status of myths as expressions of the unconscious, as elements of dreams, universal symbols, as accidents along the way to some narrative objective. The result is a significant critical venture into the history and philosophy of thought, imagination, symbol and society.--From publisher description.