Myth

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author Coupe, Laurence, 1950- (Author)
Format Book
LanguageEnglish
Published London ; New York ; Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2009
EditionSecond edition
SeriesNew critical idiom
Subjects
ISBN9780415442848 0-415-44284-2
978-0-415-44241-1 0-415-44241-9
Physical Description230 stran ; 20 cm

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Table of Contents:
  • Part I. Reading myth : Order : Dying gods ; Words and the word ; The mythical method
  • Chaos : The comic vision ; Singer as shaman ; The sacred and the profane ; The heart-of-darkness trip
  • Endings : The circuitous quest ; The rhetoric of revelation ; Apocalypse without apocalypse
  • Part II. Mythic reading : Truth : Realism and non-realism ; Allegory: the perspective of perfection ; Radical typology: permanent possibility ; Enlightenment and counter-enlightenment
  • Psyche : The primal crime ; The search for the self ; The grammar of the mind
  • History : Criticism as vision ; A single story? ; Testaments of deliverance
  • Earth : The war on nature ; Nature now and then ; Nature as revelation ; A religion of the world