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Author : Carol G. Thomas
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105003441859
Author : John Emory Dean
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2016-03-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780816532421
"The book explores how border subjects have been created and disputed in cultural narratives of the Texas-Mexico border, comparing and analyzing Mexican, Mexican American, and Anglo literary representations of the border"--Provided by publisher.
Author : Karen Armstrong
Publisher : Vintage Canada
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2010-10-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780307367297
What are myths? How have they evolved? And why do we still so desperately need them? A history of myth is a history of humanity, Karen Armstrong argues in this insightful and eloquent book: our stories and beliefs, our curiosity and attempts to understand the world, link us to our ancestors and each other. This is a brilliant and thought-provoking introduction to myth in the broadest sense–from Palaeolithic times to the “Great Western Transformation” of the last 500 years–and why we dismiss it only at our peril.
Author : Joseph Mali
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2003-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226502625
Ever since Herodotus declared in Histories that to preserve the memories of the great achievements of the Greeks and other nations he would count on their own stories, historians have debated whether and how they should deal with myth. Most have sided with Thucydides, who denounced myth as "unscientific" and banished it from historiography. In Mythistory, Joseph Mali revives this oldest controversy in historiography. Contesting the conventional opposition between myth and history, Mali advocates instead for a historiography that reconciles the two and recognizes the crucial role that myth plays in the construction of personal and communal identities. The task of historiography, he argues, is to illuminate, not eliminate, these fictions by showing how they have passed into and shaped historical reality. Drawing on the works of modern theorists and artists of myth such as Nietzsche and Wittgenstein, Joyce and Eliot, Mali redefines modern historiography and relates it to the older notion and tradition of "mythistory." Tracing the origins and transformations of this historiographical tradition from the ancient world to the modern, Mali shows how Livy and Machiavelli sought to recover true history from uncertain myth-and how Vico and Michelet then reversed this pattern of inquiry, seeking instead to recover a deeper and truer myth from uncertain history. In the heart of Mythistory, Mali turns his attention to four thinkers who rediscovered myth in and for modern cultural history: Jacob Burckhardt, Aby Warburg, Ernst Kantorowicz, and Walter Benjamin. His elaboration of the different biographical and historiographical routes by which all four sought to account for the persistence and significance of myth in Western civilization opens up new perspectives for an alternative intellectual history of modernity-one that may better explain the proliferation of mythic imageries of redemption in our secular, all too secular, times.
Author : Paul K.-K. Cho
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2019-02-07
Category : Bibles
ISBN : 9781108476195
Explores the influence of the sea myth at the structural and conceptual foundations of the Hebrew Bible.
Author : Ignác Goldziher
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1877
Category : Jewish mythology
ISBN : WISC:89094610508
Author : Ignácz Goldziher
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 548 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1877
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:305971675
Author : Bruce Lincoln
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2014-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226140926
Medieval accounts of how Norway was unified by its first king provide a lively, revealing, and wonderfully entertaining example of this process. Taking the story of how Harald Fairhair unified Norway in the ninth century as its central example, Bruce Lincoln illuminates the way a state's foundation story blurs the distinction between history and myth and how variant tellings of origin stories provide opportunities for dissidence and subversion as subtle - or not so subtle - modifications are introduced through details of character, incident, and plot structure.
Author : Claude Lévi-Strauss
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 63 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134522316
In addresses written for a wide general audience, one of the twentieth century's most prominent thinkers, Claude Lévi-Strauss, here offers the insights of a lifetime on the crucial questions of human existence. Responding to questions as varied as 'Can there be meaning in chaos?', 'What can science learn from myth?' and 'What is structuralism?', Lévi-Strauss presents, in clear, precise language, essential guidance for those who want to learn more about the potential of the human mind.
Author : Robert Alan Segal
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Myth
ISBN : 9780198724704
Where do myths come from? What is their function and what do they mean? In this Very Short Introduction Robert Segal introduces the array of approaches used to understand the study of myth. These approaches hail from disciplines as varied as anthropology, sociology, psychology, literary criticism, philosophy, science, and religious studies. Including ideas from theorists as varied as Sigmund Freud, Claude Levi-Strauss, Albert Camus, and Roland Barthes, Segal uses the famous ancient myth of Adonis to analyse their individual approaches and theories. In this new edition, he not only considers the future study of myth, but also considers the interactions of myth theory with cognitive science, the implications of the myth of Gaia, and the differences between story-telling and myth. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.
Author : , Emily Baragwanath,Mathieu de Bakker
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2012-09-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199693979
This volume brings together 13 original articles which review, re-establish, and rehabilitate the origins, forms, and functions of the mythological elements that are found in the narratives of Herodotus' Histories.
Author : Lucian Boia
Publisher : Central European University Press
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9789633860045
There is a considerable difference between real history and discourse history - this book stems from this idea. The author points out that history is constantly reconstructed, adapted and sometimes mythified from the perspective of the present day, of present states of mind and ideologies. Boia closely examines the process of historical culture and conscience in nineteenth and twentieth century Romania, particularly concentrating on the impact of the national ideology on history. Based upon his findings, the author identifies several key mythical configurations and analyses the manner in which Romanians have reconstituted their own highly ideologized history over the last two centuries. The strength of History and Myth in Romanian Consciousness lies in the author's ability to fully deconstruct the entire Romanian historiographic system and demonstrate the increasing acuteness of national problems in general, and in particular the exploitation of history to support national ideology.
Author : Ray Raphael
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2010-10-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781458781147
Widely praised following its initial publication, Founding Myths is a page-turner created out of the stuff of American history primers. Reexamining thirteen well-known tales from the American struggle for independence, the book documents the errors and inventions that permeate these cherished national myths - myths that are often still taught in American history classes - in what Baltimores City Paper calls a ''debunking that does not disappoint. ''Engaging and eye-opening (The Sacramento Bee), Ray Raphaels bold and provocative book reexamines the story of Paul Reveres midnight ride, which turns out to have involved far more than one rider; Patrick Henrys famous (and fictitious) ''Give Me Liberty speech; and the made-up character of Molly Pitcher, among many others. Raphael cleverly demonstrates how these stories evolved over time. And in each case, he offers an alternative version, one that is both more historically accurate and more in tune with our nations democratic ideals. For anyone who is curious about the true story of the nations founding, and for those searching for a genuine chronicle of democratic struggle, Founding Myths is American history at its truest and most vital.
Author : Ben Pestell,Pietra Palazzolo,Leon Burnett
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2016-05-20
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781134862566
Ever since Odysseus heard tales of his own exploits being retold among strangers, audiences and readers have been alive to the complications and questions arising from the translation of myth. How are myths taken and carried over into new languages, new civilizations, or new media? An international group of scholars is gathered in this volume to present diverse but connected case studies which address the artistic and political implications of the changing condition of myth – this most primal and malleable of forms. ‘Translation’ is treated broadly to encompass not only literary translation, but also the transfer of myth across cultures and epochs. In an age when the spiritual world is in crisis, Translating Myth constitutes a timely exploration of myth’s endurance, and represents a consolidation of the status of myth studies as a discipline in its own right.
Author : Irad Malkin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781009466080
Examines the use of mythology to justify conquest and colonization across the Spartan Mediterranean in the archaic and Classical periods.
