ISBN:
0415442842
,
0415442419
,
9780415442411
,
9780415442848
Sprache:
Englisch
Seiten:
230 S.
,
20cm
Ausgabe:
2. ed.
Serie:
The new critical idiom
DDC:
398.2
Schlagwort(e):
Myth
;
Myth
;
Myth History
;
Myth Philosophy
;
Myth in literature
;
Fiktionale Darstellung
;
Mythos
;
Mythos
;
Literatur
;
Mythos
;
Literaturwissenschaft
Kurzfassung:
Part I. Reading myth : Order : Dying gods ; Words and the word ; The mythical method -- Chaos : The comic vision ; Singer as shaman ; The sacred and the profane ; The heart-of-darkness trip -- Endings : The circuitous quest ; The rhetoric of revelation ; Apocalypse without apocalypse -- Part II. Mythic reading : Truth : Realism and non-realism ; Allegory: the perspective of perfection ; Radical typology: permanent possibility ; Enlightenment and counter-enlightenment --Psyche : The primal crime ; The search for the self ; The grammar of the mind -- History : Criticism as vision ; A single story? ; Testaments of deliverance -- Earth : The war on nature ; Nature now and then ; Nature as revelation ; A religion of the world
Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis:
Order -- Chaos -- Endings -- Truth --Psyche -- History -- Earth
Anmerkung:
Originally published: 1997
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