Companion To Literary Myths Heroes And Archetypes

Author : Pierre Brunel
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1242 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2015-07-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317387145

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Companion to Literary Myths, Heroes and Archetypes by Pierre Brunel Pdf

First published in French in 1988, and in English in 1992, this companion explores the nature of the literary myth in a collection of over 100 essays, from Abraham to Zoroaster. Its coverage is international and draws on legends from prehistory to the modern age throughout literature, whether fiction, poetry or drama. Essays on classical figures, as well as later myths, explore the origin, development and various incarnations of their subjects. Alongside entries on western archetypes, are analyses of non-European myths from across the world, including Africa, China, Japan, Latin America and India. This book will be indispensable for students and teachers of literature, history and cultural studies, as well as anyone interested in the fascinating world of mythology. A detailed bibliography and index are included. ‘The Companion provides a fine interpretive road map to Western culture’s use of archetypal stories.’ Wilson Library Review ‘It certainly is a comprehensive volume... extremely useful.’ Times Higher Education Supplement

Author : R. Howells
Publisher : Springer
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1999-03-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780230510845

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The Myth of the Titanic by R. Howells Pdf

The first critical analysis of the Titanic as modern myth, this book focuses on the second of the two Titanics . The first was the physical Titanic , the rusting remains of which can still be found twelve thousand feet below the north Atlantic. The second is the mythical Titanic which emerged just as its tangible predecessor slipped from view on 15 April 1912. It is the second of the two Titanics which remains the more interesting and which continues to carry cultural resonances today. The Myth of the Titanic begins with the launching of the 'unsinkable ship' and ends with the outbreak of the 'war to end all wars'. It provides an insight into the particular culture of late-Edwardian Britain and beyond this draws far greater conclusions about the complex relationship between myth, history, popular culture and society as a whole.

Author : Peter Hunt
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1399 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2004-08-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781134436842

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International Companion Encyclopedia of Children's Literature by Peter Hunt Pdf

Children's publishing is a huge international industry and there is ever-growing interest from researchers and students in the genre as cultural object of study and tool for education and socialization.

Author : Margaretta Jolly
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1141 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2013-12-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781136787447

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Encyclopedia of Life Writing by Margaretta Jolly Pdf

First published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : William Blazek,Michael K. Glenday
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0853237468

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American Mythologies by William Blazek,Michael K. Glenday Pdf

This challenging new book looks at the current reinvention of American Studies: a reinvention that, among other things, has put the whole issue of just what is 'American' and what is 'American Studies' into contention. The collection focuses, in particular, on American mythology. The editors themselves have written essays that examine the connections between mythologies of the United States and those of either classical European or Native American traditions. William Blazek considers Louise Erdrich's Love Medicine novels as chronicles combining Ojibwa mythology and contemporary U.S. culture in ways that reinvest a sense of mythic identity within a multicultural, postmodern America. Michael K Glenday's analysis of Jayne Anne Phillips' work and explores in it the contexts where myth and dream interact with each other. Betty Louise Bell is one of four essayists in this collection who focus their criticism on authors of Native American heritage. In the first part of 'Indians with Voices', Bell carefully argues that Roy Harvey Pearce's seminal Native American studies text Savagism and Civilization fails to acknowledge its white elitist assumptions about what constitutes The American Mind and views Native Americans along a primitive-savage binary that helped to create a twentieth-century 'national mythos of innocence and destiny'. Other essays include Christopher Brookeman's study of the impact of Muhammad Ali on Norman Mailer's non-fiction writing about heavyweight boxing.

Author : Nancy Hathaway
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2003-08-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781440650819

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The Friendly Guide to Mythology by Nancy Hathaway Pdf

How was the world as we know it created? What does it mean to be a hero? Where do we go when we die? Why are flood myths so ubiquitous? Anyone who has pondered these and other questions about humanity's ancient beliefs will be fascinated by The Friendly Guide to Mythology. Focusing on Greek and Roman mythology but including myths from Africa, Asia, Australia, northern Europe, and the Americas, The Friendly Guide to Mythology is filled with compelling stories of gods, goddesses, mortals, and monsters. Beautifully ornamented with photos, line drawings, and quotes, this entertaining guide also includes an A-to-Z listing of the world's most captivating goddesses; profiles of famous writers, collectors, and interpreters of myths; and engaging sidebars. Featuring myths of love, wisdom, and adventure as well as those of violence, jealousy, and pure folly, this accessible collection offers fascinating insight into the human psyche and brings our rich mythological heritage delightfully into focus.

Author : Diane Green
Publisher : University of Wales Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2009-07-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780708322598

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Emyr Humphreys by Diane Green Pdf

This book explores in detail the novels written by Emyr Humphreys during a timespan of over fifty years, from his first, A Little Kingdom, published in 1946, to The Gift of a Daughter, published in 1998. An early chapter comprises a literary biography with the following chapters devoted to: the early novels including A Toy Epic; a separate examination of Outside the House of Baal, considered by many to be his finest achievement; his use of Celtic myth as a patterning device; similarly his use of Welsh history is covered in 2 chapters; and finally his use of various postcolonial strategies. It also contains an extensive bibliography of work by and about Emyr Humphreys.

Author : Katrin Berndt,Lena Steveker
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317122111

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Heroism in the Harry Potter Series by Katrin Berndt,Lena Steveker Pdf

Taking up the various conceptions of heroism that are conjured in the Harry Potter series, this collection examines the ways fictional heroism in the twenty-first century challenges the idealized forms of a somewhat simplistic masculinity associated with genres like the epic, romance and classic adventure story. The collection's three sections address broad issues related to genre, Harry Potter's development as the central heroic character and the question of who qualifies as a hero in the Harry Potter series. Among the topics are Harry Potter as both epic and postmodern hero, the series as a modern-day example of psychomachia, the series' indebtedness to the Gothic tradition, Harry's development in the first six film adaptations, Harry Potter and the idea of the English gentleman, Hermione Granger's explicitly female version of heroism, adult role models in Harry Potter, and the complex depictions of heroism exhibited by the series' minor characters. Together, the essays suggest that the Harry Potter novels rely on established generic, moral and popular codes to develop new and genuine ways of expressing what a globalized world has applauded as ethically exemplary models of heroism based on responsibility, courage, humility and kindness.

Author : Michel-Andre Bossy,Thomas Brothers,John Craig McEnroe
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2001-10-30
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780313017322

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Artists, Writers, and Musicians by Michel-Andre Bossy,Thomas Brothers,John Craig McEnroe Pdf

Disney's animated trailblazing, Dostoyevsky's philosophical neuroses, Hendrix's electric haze, Hitchcock's masterful manipulation, Frida Kahlo's scarifying portraits, Van Gogh's vigorous color, and Virginia Woolf's modern feminism: this multicultural reference tool examines 200 artists, writers, and musicians from around the world. Detailed biographical essays place them in a broad historical context, showing how their luminous achievements influenced and guided contemporary and future generations, shaped the internal and external perceptions of their craft, and met the sensibilities of their audience.

Author : Monica Germana
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2013-03-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780748686346

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Scottish Women's Gothic and Fantastic Writing by Monica Germana Pdf

This book provides a critical survey of the gothic texts of late twentieth-century and contemporary Scottish women writers including Kate Atkinson, Ellen Galford, A.L. Kennedy, Ali Smith and Emma Tennant focusing on four themes: quests and other worlds, w

Author : Elodie Lafitte,Christina Wall,Mary Cobb Wittrock
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2020-05-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781527553309

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Culture as Text, Text as Culture by Elodie Lafitte,Christina Wall,Mary Cobb Wittrock Pdf

Culture as Text, Text as Culture represents a novel, interdisciplinary analysis of textuality as it pertains to Cultural Studies. More specifically, the work examines how the analysis of texts has shaped the most vital contemporary debate of Cultural Studies: the recognition that all texts and their contexts are constructs. Building upon a Post-structural/Post-modern understanding of truth as a construct, Cultural Studies has long since acknowledged the ability of texts to express the time and culture of their origin. This work, however, expands this idea, demonstrating not only how a culture is preserved in a text, but how that text can in turn define its culture, even redefine its history. This compendium is structured around four of the most prominent contemporary topics of Cultural Studies: the relationship between historical and fictional writing, the ability of authors to recreate or redefine history, the relationship between language and image, and the ability for traditionally marginalized groups to reassert their place in history. The book presents articles from a large spectrum of disciplinary fields and civilizations in order to demonstrate how the application of Cultural Studies can unite seemingly disparate disciplines.

Author : William M. Johnston
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2014-01-27
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781135923020

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Recent Reference Books in Religion by William M. Johnston Pdf

Recent Reference Books in Religion provides incisive summaries and evaluations of more than 350 contemporary reference works on religious traditions ancient and modern that have been published in English, French and German. For maximum usefulness to readers, Professor Johnston has broadly defined religion to include not just the world religion of Christianity , Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, and Buddhism but also such alternative approaches as mythology, folklore, and the philosophy of ethics. Each entry, analyzing a particular work, includes full bibliographic details as well as commentary: outstanding articles and contributors are highlighted, strengths and weaknesses are carefully noted and weighed. Readers are directed to volumes whose strengths and weaknesses are carefully noted and weighed. Readers are directed to volumes whose strengths complement the weaknesses of others. An indispensable guide in any religious studies collection, Recent Reference Books in Religion: 2nd Edition includes works published through the end of 1997. It also includes a Glossary that describes types and functions of refernce books, and five indexes: Titles, Authors, Topics, Persons and Places.

Author : Susan C. Awe
Publisher : Englewood, Colo. : Libraries Unlimited
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : STANFORD:36105022362177

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ARBA Guide to Subject Encyclopedias and Dictionaries by Susan C. Awe Pdf

Provides a selection of subject dictionaries and encyclopedias that would be useful in all types of libraries.

Author : Albert John Walford,Marilyn Mullay,Priscilla Schlicke,Library Association
Publisher : London : Library Association Publishing
Page : 1212 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Arts
ISBN : UOM:39015045611525

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Walford's Guide to Reference Material: Generalia, language and literature, the arts by Albert John Walford,Marilyn Mullay,Priscilla Schlicke,Library Association Pdf

Author : Wojciech Kalaga
Publisher : Peter Lang Publishing
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : IND:30000067730162

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Memory--remembering--forgetting by Wojciech Kalaga Pdf