Minor Mythologies As Popular Literature

Author : Richard Pine
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 461 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2018-10-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781527517837

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Minor Mythologies as Popular Literature by Richard Pine Pdf

This is the first single-author study of the genres and roots of popular literature in its relation to film and television, exploring the effects of academic snobbery on the teaching of popular literature. Designed for classroom use by students of literature and film (and their teachers), it offers case studies in quest literature, detective fiction, the status of the outlaw and outsider, and the interdependence of self, other and the uncanny. It challenges perceived notions of, and prejudices against, popular literature, and affirms its connection with the deepest human experiences.

Author : Rony Alfandary
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2018-09-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780429782398

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A Psychoanalytic Study of Lawrence Durrell’s The Alexandria Quartet by Rony Alfandary Pdf

A Psychoanalytic Study of Lawrence Durrell’s The Alexandria Quartet: Exile and Return focuses on the dialogue created by literature and psychoanalysis in an individual’s quest to explore existential issues, such as a sense of belonging to a homeland and a recurring sense of the Uncanny (das unheimliche). Rony Alfandary explores Durrell’s attempt to recreate a sense of belonging to a homeland, which perhaps never existed but can be retraced and reinvented through writing. This book studies some issues present in Durrell’s work: the connection between biographical and fictional elements in the study of literature the influence of early Freudian theoretical themes upon the writer later influences including post-modern and hermeneutic theories The life and work of Lawrence Durrell can serve as a prototype of a man’s quest for meaning, in a world caught in turmoil in the period between and during WW2. The author’s psychoanalytic exploration of the work and its relevance to human experience today, shows how the themes Durrell dealt with remain relevant. Alfandary highlights the ways in which his usage of several author narrative styles exemplifies the divergent and often contradictory nature of "Truth", emerging rather as multi-layered, multi-voiced and often torn sense of human subjectivity. A Psychoanalytic Study of Lawrence Durrell’s The Alexandria Quartet: Exile and Return demonstrates Durrell’s strong influence by psychoanalytic thought and will appeal to both psychoanalytic and literary scholars.

Author : Richard Pine,Vera Konidari
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2021-05-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781527569218

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The Eye of the Xenos, Letters about Greece (Durrell Studies 3) by Richard Pine,Vera Konidari Pdf

The condition of Greece, ever since its establishment as a sovereign state in 1830, has been the subject of intense international debate, centring on its pivotal role in the Balkans. This has been aggravated by Greece’s economic collapse in 2010 and by the ongoing refugee crisis, by environmental disasters, terrorism and the Macedonian question. This book’s analysis and assessment of Greek social, cultural and political life is trenchant, up-front and passionate, based on the author’s belief that one cannot love Greece without also mourning the fault-lines in bureaucracy and the dynastic politics which have dominated it since its inception. This book features a selection of the author’s “Letters from Greece” (from The Irish Times) and his “Eye of the Xenos”, from the Greek newspaper Kathimerini, in its entirety, in both English and a Greek translation, including columns which Kathimerini refused to print due to the nature of their political commentary.

Author : Richard Pine,Vera Konidari
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2021-03-10
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781527567313

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Borders and Borderlands by Richard Pine,Vera Konidari Pdf

The crossing of borders and frontiers between political states and between languages and cultures continues to inhibit and bedevil the freedom of movement of both ideas and people. This book addresses the issues arising from problems of translation and communication, the understanding of identity in hyphenated cultures, the relationship between landscape and character, and the multiplex topic of gender transition. Literature as a key to identity in borderland situations is explored here, together with analyses of semiotics, narratives of madness and abjection. The volume also examines the contemporary refugee crisis through first-hand “Personal Witness” accounts of migration, and political, ethnic and religious divisions in Kosovo, Greece, Portugal and North America. Another section, gathering together historical and current “Poetry of Exile”, offers poets’ perspectives on identity and tradition in the context of loss, alienation, fear and displacement.

Author : John Edward Zimmerman
Publisher : Turtleback
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1964-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0606030689

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Dictionary of Classical Mythology by John Edward Zimmerman Pdf

Provides brief information on themes, specific works, authors, place names, and major characters

Author : Don Nardo
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2011-07
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780756544799

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The Gods and Goddesses of Greek Mythology by Don Nardo Pdf

Describes the origins of the most important Greek myths along with the personalities and special powers of the major Greek gods and goddesses.

Author : Oxford University Press
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 55 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2010-05-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780199803026

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Mythology: Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guide by Oxford University Press Pdf

This ebook is a selective guide designed to help scholars and students of the ancient world find reliable sources of information by directing them to the best available scholarly materials in whatever form or format they appear from books, chapters, and journal articles to online archives, electronic data sets, and blogs. Written by a leading international authority on the subject, the ebook provides bibliographic information supported by direct recommendations about which sources to consult and editorial commentary to make it clear how the cited sources are interrelated. A reader will discover, for instance, the most reliable introductions and overviews to the topic, and the most important publications on various areas of scholarly interest within this topic. In classics, as in other disciplines, researchers at all levels are drowning in potentially useful scholarly information, and this guide has been created as a tool for cutting through that material to find the exact source you need. This ebook is just one of many articles from Oxford Bibliographies Online: Classics, a continuously updated and growing online resource designed to provide authoritative guidance through the scholarship and other materials relevant to the study of classics. Oxford Bibliographies Online covers most subject disciplines within the social science and humanities, for more information visit www.aboutobo.com.

Author : Don Nardo
Publisher : Greenhaven Publishing LLC
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2012-10-19
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781420510386

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Persian Mythology by Don Nardo Pdf

Author Don Nardo examines the ancient civilizations and peoples of Persian mythology. Origin / creation stories, early gods, mythical kings and heroes, and Zoroastrianism are all covered. This volume has a map of ancient Persia, a visual organizer grouping major characters, a table of major characters with name pronunciations and brief descriptions, a glossary, sidebars, fact boxes, and bibliography of sources for further study, and a subject index.

Author : James A. Herrick
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2008-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780830825882

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Scientific Mythologies by James A. Herrick Pdf

What does science have to do with science fiction? What does science fiction have to do with scientists? What does religion have to do with science and science fiction? In the spiritual vacuum of our post-Christian West, new mythologies continually arise. The sources of much religious speculation, however, may be surprising. Author James Herrick directs our attention to a wide range of scientists, filmmakers, science fiction writers and religious philosophers and discovers there the role that science and science fiction have played in such mythmaking. From scientists such as Francis Bacon, Francis Crick, Carl Sagan and Freeman Dyson, to filmmakers such as George Lucas and Steven Spielberg, to science fiction writers such as Olaf Stapledon, Sir Arthur C. Clarke, Robert Heinlein and Isaac Asimov, Herrick finds a curious collusion of science with science fiction for promoting and justifying alternative spiritualities. The rise of these new mythologies, he argues, is no longer a curiosity at the edge of Western culture. This alchemy is catalyzing a religious vision of new gods, a new humanity, and alien races with superior intelligence and secret knowledge. This new mythology overshadows the realms of politics, science and religion. Should we follow such visions? Does science endorse these mythologies? Are we being offered a spirituality superior to the Judeo-Christian tradition? This book will help you decide.

Author : Oskar Seyffert
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 724 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : Classical dictionaries
ISBN : STANFORD:36105004485749

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A Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, Mythology, Religion, Literature & Art by Oskar Seyffert Pdf

Author : Oskar Seyffert
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 736 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : Classical dictionaries
ISBN : HARVARD:HNEUVN

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A Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, Mythology, Religion, Literature and Art, from the German of Dr. Oskar Seyffert by Oskar Seyffert Pdf

Author : Viktor Rydberg
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2018-05-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783732678433

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Teutonic Mythology by Viktor Rydberg Pdf

Reproduction of the original: Teutonic Mythology by Viktor Rydberg

Author : Craig J. Saper
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1997-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780816628728

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Artificial Mythologies by Craig J. Saper Pdf

Author : Phillip Crant
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9051834624

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Mythology in French Literature by Phillip Crant Pdf

Author : Ebenezer Cobham BREWER
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 622 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1858
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0022391692

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A Guide to the Mythology, History, and Literature of Ancient Greece by Ebenezer Cobham BREWER Pdf