Book Description
The Anatomy of Myth is a comprehensive study of the methods of interpreting authoritative myths from the Presocratic philosophers to the Neoplatonists and their adoption by the Church Fathers.
Author : Michael W. Herren
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 28,67 MB
Release : 2017
Category : History
ISBN : 019060669X
The Anatomy of Myth is a comprehensive study of the methods of interpreting authoritative myths from the Presocratic philosophers to the Neoplatonists and their adoption by the Church Fathers.
Author : George Wheeler
Publisher :
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 37,53 MB
Release : 1973
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
Author : Robert Alan Segal
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 22,63 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0198724705
This Very Short Introduction explores different approaches to myth from several disciplines, including science, religion, philosophy, literature, and psychology. In this new edition, Robert Segal considers both the future study of myth as well as the impact of areas such as cognitive science and the latest approaches to narrative theory.
Author : Gary W. Gallagher
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 27,32 MB
Release : 2000-11-22
Category : History
ISBN : 0253109027
A “well-reasoned and timely” (Booklist) essay collection interrogates the Lost Cause myth in Civil War historiography. Was the Confederacy doomed from the start in its struggle against the superior might of the Union? Did its forces fight heroically against all odds for the cause of states’ rights? In reality, these suggestions are an elaborate and intentional effort on the part of Southerners to rationalize the secession and the war itself. Unfortunately, skillful propagandists have been so successful in promoting this romanticized view that the Lost Cause has assumed a life of its own. Misrepresenting the war’s true origins and its actual course, the myth of the Lost Cause distorts our national memory. In The Myth of the Lost Cause and Civil War History, nine historians describe and analyze the Lost Cause, identifying ways in which it falsifies history—creating a volume that makes a significant contribution to Civil War historiography. “The Lost Cause . . . is a tangible and influential phenomenon in American culture and this book provides an excellent source for anyone seeking to explore its various dimensions.” —Southern Historian
Author : Michael McLeod
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 20,11 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0520269861
"Michael McLeod doesn't simply debunk hoaxes; he critically, but sympathetically, explores the motivations that have driven the 'Bigfoot community' to build an enormous and intricate, if ramshackle, edifice of lore. McLeod has written an anatomy of mythology with implications that go beyond the Bigfoot phenomenon. The Bigfoot mythologists' strange, colorful, and sometimes comical, personalities play a big part of this compulsively readable story."—David Rains Wallace, author of The Klamath Knot: Explorations of Myth and Evolution "In the same way that dinosaurs and other exotic beasts from Earth's distant and hazy past inspire and fascinate many of us, Bigfoot has captured the imagination of generations of Americans. Here, Michael McLeod approaches the 'Bigfoot phenomenon' in the same way that a detective would follow leads at a crime scene. The result is a delicious case study of human obsession and the fuzzy border between science and pseudoscience."—Chris Beard, author of The Hunt for the Dawn Monkey: Unearthing the Origins of Monkeys, Apes, and Humans
Author : Northrop Frye
Publisher :
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 49,94 MB
Release : 2002-03
Category : Criticism
ISBN : 9780141187099
Author : Edward F. Edinger
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 31,16 MB
Release : 2001-05-01
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0834828685
A Jungian exploration of the figures of Greek mythology, revealing what the stories and their continued significance represent about our modern lives Zeus, Aphrodite, Apollo, Artemis, Athena—do the gods and goddesses of Greece have anything to say to us that we haven't already heard? In this book, based on a series of his lectures, the eminent Jungian analyst and writer Edward F. Edinger revisits all the major figures, myths, oracles, and legends of the ancient Greek religion to discover what they can still reveal—representing, as they do, one of the religious and mythic foundations of Western culture. Building on C. G. Jung's assertion that mythology is an expression of the deepest layers of mind and soul, Dr. Edinger follows the mythic images into their persistent manifestations in literature and on into our modern lives. He finds that the gods indeed continue to speak as we grow in our capacity to listen and that the myths express the inner energies within all of us as much as ever. Heracles is eternally performing his labors, Perseus is still confronting Medusa, Theseus is forever stalking the Minotaur, and Persephone is still being carried off to life in a new realm.
Author : Helen Morales
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 42,28 MB
Release : 2007-08-23
Category : Art
ISBN : 0192804766
From Zeus to Europa, to Pan and Prometheus, the myths of ancient Greece and Rome continue to pervade the numerous facets of our existence. The author explores the rich history and varying interpretations of classical myth in both high art and popular culture as well as its ongoing influence in modern society.
Author : Brian W. Dippie
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 19,25 MB
Release : 1994-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780803265929
Defeat and death at the Little Bighorn gave General George Custer and his Seventh Cavalry a kind of immortality. In Custer's Last Stand, Brian W. Dippie investigates the body of legend surrounding that battle on a bloody Sunday in 1876. His survey of the event in poems, novels, paintings, movies, jokes, and other ephemera amounts to a unique reflection on the national character.
Author : Craig E. Stephenson
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 26,84 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Erotica
ISBN : 9780415572316
This book explores the reappearance and restoration of the myth of Anteros throughout the centuries and looks at how this myth has inspired and challenged the work of Freud, Lacan, Girard and Jung.