Title:
Myth / Laurence Coupe.
The new critical idiom
New critical idiom.
Author:
Coupe, Laurence, 1950-
General Notes:
Includes bibliographical references(p. [215]-222)and index(p. 223-230).
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.
Publisher:
Routledge,
Publication Place:
London ; New York :
ISBN:
9780415442411 (hardback : alk. paper)
0415442419 (hardback : alk. paper)
9780415442848 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0415442842 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780203888087 (e-book)
0203888081 (e-book)
Subject:
Myth.
Myth -- History.
Myth -- Philosophy.
Myth in literature.
Mythology.
Series:
The new critical idiom
New critical idiom.
Edition:
2nd ed.
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.
Physical Description:
230 p. ;
Electronic Location:
http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0823/2008030181.html
http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&doc_number=016997055&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA
http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&doc_number=016997055&line_number=0002&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA
Publication Date:
2009.
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