Myth and the making of modernity : : the problem of grounding in early twentieth-century literature / / edited by Michael Bell and Peter Poellner.
The contributors to this collection of essays on the literary use of myth in the early twentieth century and its literary and philosophical precedents from romanticism onwards draw on a range of disciplines, from anthropology, comparative literature, and literary criticism, to philosophy and religio...
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| Superior document: | Textxet: Studies in Comparative Literature ; 16 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Amsterdam, Netherlands ;, Atlanta, Georgia : : Rodopi,, [1998] ©1998 |
| Year of Publication: | 1998 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Textxet: Studies in Comparative Literature ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (268 pages) |
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Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgements
- Michael BELL: Introduction
- I Antecedents: A New Mythology? Bianca THEISEN: Romantic Myths of Myth: Myth as Autopoiesis
- Edward LARRISSY: Zoas and Moods: Myth and Aspects of the Mind in Blake and Yeats
- Maike OERGEL: Myth in the Nineteenth Century: Tennyson's Idylls and Wagner's Ring des Nibelungen
- Peter POELLNER: Myth, Art and Illusion in Nietzsche
- II Myth, Science, Technology
- Bruce CLARKE: A Different Sun: The Allegory of Thermodynamics in D.H
- Lawrence
- David E
- COOPER: Reactionary Modernism and Self-Conscious Myth
- Robert SEGAL: The Existentialist Reinterpretation of Myth: Rudolf Bultmann and Hans Jonas
- III Poeticizing the Modern: Myth as a Form of Life
- Leon BURNETT: The Domination of Memory: Dark Days of Modernism
- Peter NICHOLLS: To Unscrew the Inscrutable: Myth as Fiction and Belief in Ezra Pound's Cantos
- Marc MANGANARO: Myth as Culture: The Lesson of Anthropology in T.S
- Eliot
- IV A New Immediacy: Grounding or Overcoming the Subject? John MCGOVERN: Like Water in Water: Primitivism and Modernity
- Rainer EMIG: Macro-Myths and Micro-Myths: Modernist Poetry and the Problem of Artistic Creation
- Gerald SIEGMUND: Freud's Myths: Memory, Culture and the Subject
- Steven CONNOR: Echo's Bones: Myth, Modernity and the Vocalic Uncanny
- Notes on Contributors
- Bibliography of Works Cited
- Index.