Myth /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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London ; New York :
Routledge,
2009.
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| Edition: | 2nd ed. |
| Series: | The new critical idiom
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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.
