| Description |
391 pages ; 25cm |
| Contents |
1. The nature of myth Myth, symbolism, and truth / David Bidney -- Bios and mythos: prolegomena to a science of mythology / Joseph Campbell -- Myth and folktale / Géza Róheim -- Myths and rituals: a general theory / Clyde Kluckhohn -- 2. Myth and literature The ritual view of myth and the mythic / Stanley Edgar Hyman -- Notes on mythopoeia / Philip Wheelwright -- Notes on the study of myth / Richard Chase -- Myth and drama / Harold H. Watts -- The archetypes of literature / Northrop Frye -- The working novelist and the mythmaking process / Andrew Lytle -- The myth and the powerhouse / Philip Rahv -- The meaning of "myth" in modern criticism / Wallace W. Douglas -- Cultural anthropology and contemporary literary criticism / Haskell M. Block -- 3. Myth and criticism [1.] Definitions and discriminations "Myth" and the literary scruple / Francis Fergusson -- The myth and ritual approach to Shakespearean tragedy / Herbert Weisinger -- Initiatory motifs in the story of Telemachus / Charles W. Eckert -- Myth and medieval literature: Sir Gawain and the green knight / Charles Moorman -- [2.] The presence of myth The archetypal pattern of death and rebirth in Milton's Lycidas / Richard P. Adams -- Big medicine in Moby Dick / Reginald L. Cook -- The myth of man: Joyce's Finnegans wake / Marvin Magalaner -- [3.] The imaginal design Myth in The Blithedale romance / Peter B. Murray -- The red badge of courage as myth and symbol / John E. Hart -- Symbolism of the cyclical myth in Endymion / Robert Harrison -- [4.] The critical analogy Mythic patterns in To the lighthouse / Joseph L. Blotner -- Nature myth in Faulkner's The bear / John Lydenberg -- Dickens and some motifs of the fairy tale / Shirley Grob -- [5.] Mythic themes and forms Remarks on the sad initiation of Huckleberry Finn / James M. Cox -- The sunburnt god: ritual and tragic myth in The return of the native / Louis Crompton -- Myth and ritual in the shorter fiction of D.H. Lawrence / John B. Vickery -- [6.] The psychological dimension An archetypal analysis of Conrad's Nostromo / Claire Rosenfield -- Walden: the wisdom of the centaur / William Bysshe Stein -- The use of myth in Kafka and Mann / Harry Slochower -- [7.] From mythological to mythopoeic Tennyson's mythology: a study of Demeter and Persephone / G. Robert Stange -- Prophetic myths in Zola / Philip Walker |
| Notes |
Bison book |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliography |
| Subject |
Myth in literature.
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| Author |
Vickery, John B.
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| LC no. |
65011563 |
| ISBN |
0803252080 |
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