Myth And Symbol

Author : Alan Olson
Publisher : Boston University Studies in Philosophy and Religion
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1982-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0268013497

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Myth, Symbol and Reality by Alan Olson Pdf

Do myths and symbols have anything at all to tell us about reality? Or do they simply deserve to be relegated to the realm of fantastic unreality? The essayists in this volume deploy all the critical tools available in the task of taking myth and symbol seriously. They are not willing to consign the use of the symbolic to the logician or to relinquish the mythical to the comparative anthropologist as something of historical interest only. Instead, they strive for that difficult position that is guided by criticism but is still open to wonder in the face of what myth and symbol offer in terms of enrichment, meaning, and self-transcendence.

Author : Ariel Golan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Social Science
ISBN : MINN:31951P00187114A

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Myth and Symbol by Ariel Golan Pdf

Author : Alan M. Olson
Publisher : University of Notre Dame Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Reference
ISBN : UVA:X000160711

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Myth, Symbol, and Reality by Alan M. Olson Pdf

Author : Clifford Geertz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Ethnology
ISBN : STANFORD:36105004491093

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Myth, Symbol, and Culture by Clifford Geertz Pdf

Author : Jennifer Reid
Publisher : University of Ottawa Press
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1995-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780776616599

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Myth, Symbol, and Colonial Encounter by Jennifer Reid Pdf

From the time of the Treaty of Utrecht in 1713, people of British origin have shared the area of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward Island, traditionally called Acadia, with Eastern Canada's Algonkian-speaking peoples, the Mi'kmaq. This historical analysis of colonial Acadia from the perspective of symbolic and mythic existence will be useful to those interested in Canadian history, native Canadian history, religion in Canada, and history of religion.

Author : Giorgia Grilli
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2013-10-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781135868017

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Myth, Symbol, and Meaning in Mary Poppins by Giorgia Grilli Pdf

The Mary Poppins that many people know of today--a stern, but sweet, loveable, and reassuring British nanny--is a far cry from the character created by Pamela Lyndon Travers in the 1930's. Instead, this is the Mary Poppins reinvented by Disney in the eponymous movie. This book sheds light on the original Mary Poppins, Myth, Symbol, and Meaning in Mary Poppins is the only full-length study that covers all the Mary Poppins books, exposing just how subversive the pre-Disney Mary Poppins character truly was. Drawing important parallels between the character and the life of her creator, who worked as a governess herself, Grilli reveals the ways in which Mary Poppins came to unsettle the rigid and rigorous rules of Victorian and Edwardian society that most governesses embodied, taught, and passed on to their charges.

Author : Dorothy Norman
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Heroes
ISBN : IND:30000009144795

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The Hero by Dorothy Norman Pdf

Author : Jen Delyth
Publisher : Amber Lotus
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Art, Celtic
ISBN : 1602371164

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Celtic Folk Soul by Jen Delyth Pdf

Welsh artist Jen Delyth is one of the most highly respected contemporary Celtic artists in the world. Her debut book, Celtic Folk-Soul, illuminates the beauty, power and spirit of nature expressed through the ancient language of Celtic art and symbol: the voice of the Folk-Soul. This beautiful book is rich with Delyth's stunning artwork and is structured around a symbolic nine-chapter motif. From Roots/Elements to Stone/Mysteries to Beyond the Ninth Wave, Delyth pairs insightful explanations with her radiant artwork, Celtic myth and poetry revealing to us background, meaning and depth to the theme of each section. Celtic Folk-Soul takes us on a journey of discovery into the many aspects of Celtic myth and symbolism. This is an ancient thread which weaves back through the art, myth and poetry and connects us to a complex mysticism that expresses the interconnection and balance of all things.

Author : Barbara Maria Stafford
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Art
ISBN : IND:30000055892883

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Symbol and Myth by Barbara Maria Stafford Pdf

Author : Ariel Golan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Decoration and ornament, Ancient
ISBN : PSU:000022253729

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Myth and Symbol by Ariel Golan Pdf

Author : Carole Hillenbrand
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2007-11-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9780748631155

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Turkish Myth and Muslim Symbol by Carole Hillenbrand Pdf

Turks ruled the Middle East for a millennium and eastern Europe for many centuries and it is an undoubted fact that they moulded the lands under their dominion. It is therefore something of a paradox that the history of Turkey and aspects of the identity and role of the Turks, both as Muslims and as an ethnic group, still remain little known in the west and undervalued in the Arabic and Persian-speaking worlds. This book contributes to historical scholarship on Turkey by focusing on its key foundational myth, the battle of Manzikert in 1071--the Turkish equivalent of the battle of Hastings. Manzikert destroyed the hold of Christian Byzantium on eastern Turkey and opened the whole country to the spread of Islam, a process completed with the fall of Constantinople and Trebizond some four centuries later. Translations and a close analysis of all the extant Muslim sources--both Arabic and Persian--which deal with the battle of Manzikert are provided in the book. It also looks at these writings as literary works and vehicles of religious ideology and analyses the ongoing confrontation between the Muslim Turks and Christian Europe and the importance of Manzikert in the formation of the modern state of Turkey since 1923.

Author : MARIA-LUIZA DUMITRU OANCEA,RAMONA MIHĂILĂ
Publisher : Editura Universității din București - Bucharest University Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2019-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9786061610372

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MYTH, SYMBOL, AND RITUAL: ELUCIDATORY PATHS TO THE FANTASTIC UNREALITY by MARIA-LUIZA DUMITRU OANCEA,RAMONA MIHĂILĂ Pdf

The present volume insists on the policies derived from the social ideas generated by myths, the updating of myths as an arsenal of social pedagogy, on the ethnic condition of the relevance of myths, but also on the resumption by mass media of the pejorative sense of the myth. This volume is part of the scientific series “Mythology and Folklore”.

Author : Henry Nash Smith
Publisher : Cambridge : Harvard University Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1950
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015002174046

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Virgin Land by Henry Nash Smith Pdf

The spell that the West has always exercised on the American people had its most intense impact on American literature and thought during the nineteenth century. Smith shows, with vast comprehension, the influence of the nineteenth-century West in all its variety and strength, in special relation to social, economic, cultural, and political forces. He traces the myths and symbols of the Westward movement such as the general notion of a Westward-moving Course of Empire, the Wild Western hero, the virtuous yeoman-farmer--in such varied nineteenth-century writings as Leaves of Grass, the great corpus of Dime Novels, and most notably, Frederick Jackson Turner's The Frontier in American History. Moreover, he synthesizesthe imaginative expression of Westernmyths and symbols in literature withtheir role in contemporary politics,economics, and society, embodiedin such forms as the idea of ManifestDestiny, the conflict in the Americanmind between idealizations of primitivism on the one hand and of progressand civilization on the other, theHomestead Act of 1862, and public-land policy after the Civil War. The myths of the American Westthat found their expression in nineteenth-century words and deeds remaina part of every American's heritage,and Smith, with his insightinto their power and significance,makes possible a critical appreciation of that heritage.

Author : Rowena Shepherd,Rupert Shepherd
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2018-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1782404562

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1000 Symbols by Rowena Shepherd,Rupert Shepherd Pdf

Symbols are often seen as constituting an international language and to some extent they do, but that language is far from universal--context means everything in this complicated but engrossing form of communication. Take, for example, a cross, a crane, or a swastika: each one has a different and distinct significance and meaning for a Buddhist, an art historian, or a student of the occult. 1000 Symbols resolves the problem by offering groupings of related symbols, every one with a neat definition of its history and its cross-cultural meanings.

Author : Robert Thomas Rundle Clark
Publisher : Thames & Hudson
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Africa
ISBN : 0500271127

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Myth and Symbol in Ancient Egypt by Robert Thomas Rundle Clark Pdf

This classic study remains the best single introduction to the Egyptian mythological world. The Egyptians lived apart from the rest of the ancient world, and it is this isolation that makes their ideas so difficult to appreciate and interpret. Egyptian though was presented in terms of mythology: myth was used to convey insights into the workings of nature and the ultimately indescribable realities of the soul ...