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Author : Wilfred Thomas Jewkes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : OCLC:1202136774
Author : Luc Brisson
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2000-12-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0226075192
We think of myth as a fictional story, and Plato was the first to use the term muthos in that sense. But Plato also used muthos to describe the practice of making and telling stories, the oral transmission of all that a community keeps in its collective memory. In the first part of Plato the Myth Maker, Luc Brisson reconstructs Plato's multifaceted and not uncritical description of muthos in light of the latter's famous Atlantis story. The second part of the book contrasts this sense of myth, as Plato does, with another form of speech that he believed was far superior: the logos of philosophy. Appearing for the first time in English, Plato the Myth Maker is a solid and important contribution to the history of myth, based on the privileged testimony of one of its most influential critics and supporters.
Author : Wilfred Thomas Jewkes,Northrop Frye
Publisher : Alberta Education
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0153334681
Author : Hyam Maccoby
Publisher : Barnes & Noble Publishing
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Christianity
ISBN : 0760707871
The author presents new arguments which support the view that Paul, not Jesus, was the founder of Christianity. He argues that Jesus and also his immediate disciples James and Peter were life-long adherents of Pharisaic Judaism. Paul, however, was not, as he claimed, a native-born Jew of Pharisee upbringing, but came in fact from a Gentile background. He maintains that it was Paul alone who created a new religion by his vision of Jesus as a Divine Saviour who died to save humanity. This concept, which went far beyond the messianic claims of Jesus, was an amalgamation of ideas derived from Hellenistic religion, especially from Gnosticism and the mystery cults. Paul played a devious and adventurous political game with Jesus' followers of the so-called Jerusalem Church, who eventually disowned him. The conclusions of this historical and psychological study will come as a shock to many readers, but it is nevertheless a book which cannot be ignored by anyone concerned with the foundations of our culture and society. -- Book jacket.
Author : R.D.S. Jack
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789042032194
J.M. Barrie’s critical reputation is unusually problematic. Originally viewed as a genius to rank with Shaw and Wilde, Barrie soon fell victim to damaging psychological theories about his life and his patriotism. The few critics who have commented on Barrie have colluded with dominant myths about a figure who, like his most famous creation, never grew up, who abandoned Scotland and made light of his own people when serious social analyses of the nation’s condition were called for, and who scorned the opportunities of University learning when at Edinburgh. Myths and the Mythmaker attempts to challenge these myths and offer a just revaluation of Barrie’s genius. Through closely focused textual analyses, it dispels the popular images of Barrie as “escapist” writer and immature, mother-fixated artist. It seeks to replace the narrow prose canon on which the “Oedipal” and “Kailyard” myths are based with a thorough account of his Victorian apprenticeship. New research into Barrie’s early work and criticism show the enduring influence of his Edinburgh education on his creative writing, his academic articles, and his own complex views on artistic genius.
Author : Mary Barnard
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0821405624
Author : Anne E. Neimark
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2012-09-18
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780547997360
“Long before Harry Potter and J. K. Rowling, there were Gandalf, Bilbo Baggins, and J. R. R. Tolkien . . . This will bring the creator to vivid life” (Booklist). A philologist of world renown, a professor at Oxford, and the author of academic treatises, J.R.R. Tolkien was far more than a fantasy book writer. His lifelong fascination with medieval texts and languages gave him a unique vision and endless inspiration for his tales. His broad interests made possible his creation of faery worlds and entire races of beings, as well as the languages, cultures, and characters that make his books as engaging today as they were fifty years ago. This clear and thoroughly researched biography of the creator of The Hobbit is accompanied by magical illustrations that recall the mystery of Tolkien’s imaginary worlds. “Give[s] some interesting insight into the power Tolkien’s work has had on people over the years.” —School Library Journal
Author : George G. Grabowicz
Publisher : Harvard Ukrainian
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0674678524
A study of Symbolic Meaning in Taras Sevcenko. By virtue of its method of symbolic analysis this book will be of value not only to Slavists, but to all who are interested in rigorous study of literary myth in its broader cultural context.
Author : John Fiske
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1889
Category : Folklore
ISBN : MSU:31293101774366
Author : W. T. (Wilfred Thomas) Jewkes,Glenna Davis Sloan
Publisher : New York : Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Bible as literature
ISBN : 015333519X
Author : Benjamin Radford
Publisher : Prometheus Books
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2010-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781615923342
This hard-hitting critique of media culture examines not only the ways in which the public is deceived, but the media's role in propagating those deceptions. Illustrations.
Author : Michel Houellebecq
Publisher : Abrams
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2019-09-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781683359746
The award-winning French novelist pays tribute to a literary hero in this critical biography of the master of horror—with a foreword by Stephen King. Best known for his acclaimed novels, such as the Prix Goncourt-winning The Map and the Territory, Michael Houellebecq devotes his single work of nonfiction to the pioneering author of horror and weird fiction, H. P. Lovecraft. In a volume that is part biographical sketch and part pronouncement on existence and literature, France's most famous contemporary author praises his prewar American alter ego, whose style couldn't be less like his own. With a foreword by Lovecraft admirer Stephen King, this eloquently translated edition is an insightful introduction to both Lovecraft’s dark mythology and Houellebecq’s deadpan prose.
Author : John Fiske
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1902
Category : Electronic
ISBN : CORNELL:31924092497571
Author : Allan Bloom
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2008-06-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781439126264
The brilliant, controversial, bestselling critique of American culture that “hits with the approximate force and effect of electroshock therapy” (The New York Times)—now featuring a new afterword by Andrew Ferguson in a twenty-fifth anniversary edition. In 1987, eminent political philosopher Allan Bloom published The Closing of the American Mind, an appraisal of contemporary America that “hits with the approximate force and effect of electroshock therapy” (The New York Times) and has not only been vindicated, but has also become more urgent today. In clear, spirited prose, Bloom argues that the social and political crises of contemporary America are part of a larger intellectual crisis: the result of a dangerous narrowing of curiosity and exploration by the university elites. Now, in this twenty-fifth anniversary edition, acclaimed author and journalist Andrew Ferguson contributes a new essay that describes why Bloom’s argument caused such a furor at publication and why our culture so deeply resists its truths today.
Author : A.N. Wilson
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2017-12-12
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780062433510
A radical reappraisal of Charles Darwin from the bestselling author of Victoria: A Life. With the publication of On the Origin of Species, Charles Darwin—hailed as the man who "discovered evolution"—was propelled into the pantheon of great scientific thinkers, alongside Galileo, Copernicus, and Newton. Eminent writer A. N. Wilson challenges this long-held assumption. Contextualizing Darwin and his ideas, he offers a groundbreaking critical look at this revered figure in modern science. In this beautifully written, deeply erudite portrait, Wilson argues that Darwin was not an original scientific thinker, but a ruthless and determined self-promoter who did not credit the many great sages whose ideas he advanced in his book. Furthermore, Wilson contends that religion and Darwinism have much more in common than it would seem, for the acceptance of Darwin's theory involves a pretty significant leap of faith. Armed with an extraordinary breadth of knowledge, Wilson explores how Darwin and his theory were very much a product of their place and time. The "Survival of the Fittest" was really the Survival of Middle Class families like the Darwins—members of a relatively new economic strata who benefited from the rising Industrial Revolution at the expense of the working classes. Following Darwin’s theory, the wretched state of the poor was an outcome of nature, not the greed and neglect of the moneyed classes. In a paradigm-shifting conclusion, Wilson suggests that it remains to be seen, as this class dies out, whether the Darwinian idea will survive, or whether it, like other Victorian fads, will become a footnote in our intellectual history. Brilliant, daring, and ambitious, Charles Darwin explores this legendary man as never before, and challenges us to reconsider our understanding of both Darwin and modern science itself.
