Author: Richard Golsa
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: myth, theorists, introduction, rene, girard
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2002-01-02
List price: $28.95
ISBN-10: 0415937779
ISBN-13: 9780415937771
In this comprehensive introduction to the work of contemporary French critic Rene Girard, Richard Golsan focuses on Girard’s theory of myth and its connections to his broader exploration of the origins of suffering and violence in Western culture. Golsan highlights two of Girard’s primary concepts--mimetic desire and the scapegoat--and employs the concepts to illustrate the ways Girardian analysis of violence in biblical, classical, and folk myths has influenced recent work in theology, psychology, literary studies, and anthropology. The book concludes with an interview between Gol
Author: Otto Rank
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Keywords: myth, exploration, psychological, hero, birth
Number of Pages: 200
Published: 2004-09-01
List price: $52.00
ISBN-10: 0801878837
ISBN-13: 9780801878831
Originally published in German in 1909, Otto Rank’s The Myth of the Birth of the Hero offered psychoanalytical interpretations of mythological stories as a means of understanding the human psyche. Like his mentor Freud, Rank compared the myths of such figures as Oedipus, Moses, and Sargon with common dreams, seeing in both a symbolic fulfillment of repressed desire. Thirteen years later, Rank substantially revised this seminal work, incorporating new discoveries in psychoanalysis, mythology, and ethnology, doubling the size of the book. This expanded second edition has never before been
Author: William Schultz
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: myth, theorists, introduction, cassirer, langer
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2000-04-05
List price: $85.00
ISBN-10: 0815324650
ISBN-13: 9780815324652
This text will investigate the significance of myth in the context of the survival of civilization and cultures. Such an examination will be conducted by way of the two leading twentieth century philosophers on myth, Ernst Cassirer and Susanne Langer.
Author: Douglas Allen
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: myth, theorists, eliade, mircea, religion
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 2002-04-26
List price: $43.95
ISBN-10: 0415939399
ISBN-13: 9780415939393
This multidisciplinary study is the first book devoted entirely to the critical interpretation of the writings of Mircea Eliade on myth. One of the most popular and influential historians and theorists of myth, Eliade argued that all myth is religious. Douglas Allen critically interprets Eliade’s theories of religion, myth, and symbolism and analyzes many of the controversial issues in Eliade’s treatment of myth, including whether Eliade’s approach deals adequately with the relationship between myth and history and how Eliade’s anti-modern perspective makes sense of myt
Author: Lawrence Coupe
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: myth, theorists, introduction, kenneth, burke
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2004-11-30
List price: $110.00
ISBN-10: 0415936403
ISBN-13: 9780415936408
Kenneth Burke--rhetorician, philosopher, linguist, sociologist, literary and music critic, crank--was one of the foremost theorists of literary form. He did not fit tidily into any philosophical school, nor was he reducible to any simple set of principles or ideas.His observations on myth were never systematic, but greatly informed his writings on literary theory.
Author: Ford Russell
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: myth, theorists, frye, northrop
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2000-08-29
List price: $35.95
ISBN-10: 0415929059
ISBN-13: 9780415929059
Nortrop Frye differed from other theorists of myth in tracing all of the major literary genres--romance, comedy, satire, not just tragedy--to myth and ritual. This volume is the most thorough presentation of his thinking on the subject.
Author: Steven F. Walker
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: myth, theorists, jungians, jung
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2002-01-02
List price: $30.95
ISBN-10: 0415936314
ISBN-13: 9780415936316
Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961) was never more insightful and intriguing than when he discussed mythology. The key to understanding the Jungian approach to mythology lies in the concept of the image, which provides the basis for his theory of the unconscious. By emphasizing the image over the word, Jungian psychology distinguishes itself dramatically from Freudian, Lacanian, and other psychologies that stress the task of interpreting the language- the words- of the unconscious. In Jung and the Jungians on Myth, Steven Walker carefully leads the reader through the essential lines of thought i
