| Description |
1 online resource (xxii, 494 pages) |
| Series |
Theorists of myth ; v. 9 |
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Theorists of myth ; v. 9.
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| Contents |
THE POETICS OF MYTH; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Biographical Note; Preface to the Russian Edition (1976); Part I:Modern Theories of Myth and Approaches to Literature; Historical Overview; Remythification in Philosophy and in the Study of Culture; Ritualism and Functionalism; The French Sociological School; The Symbolic Theories; Analytical Psychology; Structuralism; Myth, Ritual, Archetypes, and Literary Criticism; Mythopoetics in Russian and Soviet Thought; Preliminary Conclusions; Notes to Part I; Part II: The Classic Forms of Myth and Their Expression in Narrative Folklore |
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Preliminary ObservationsThe General Characteristics of Mythological Thought; The Functional Orientation of Myth; Mythical Time and Its Paradigms; Ancestors, Demiurges, Culture Heroes; Archaic Creation Myths; The Origins of Society; Chaos, Order, and the Creation of the Universe; The Cosmic Model; Seasonal Myths; Cosmic Cycles and the End of the Universe; Heroic Myths and Rites of Passage; The Semantics of Mythical Plots and Systems; Myth, Tale, Epic; Notes to Part II; Part III:Mythification in Twentieth-Century Literature; Historical Introduction |
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The Mythological Novel in the Twentieth Century: Some Preliminary ObservationsAn Antithesis: Joyce and Mann; Kafka's Mythopoetics; Various Aspects of Mythification in the Contemporary Novel; Notes to Part III; Bibliography; Appendices; Subject Index and Glossary; Index of Literary Works; Name Index |
| Summary |
First Published in 2000 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 353-411) and indexes |
| Subject |
Literature, Modern -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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Myth in literature.
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Literature, Modern
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Myth in literature
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Lanoue, Guy
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| ISBN |
9780203820308 |
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0203820304 |
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