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Coupe, Laurence, 1950-

Myth / Laurence Coupe. - 2nd ed. - London ; New York : Routledge, 2009. - 230 p. ; 21 cm. - The new critical idiom . - New critical idiom. .

Includes bibliographical references (p. [215]-222) and index.

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.

ISBN: 9780415442411 (hardback : alk. paper) 0415442419 (hardback : alk. paper) 9780415442848 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0415442842 (pbk. : alk. paper) 9780203888087 (ebook) 0203888081 (ebook)

LCCN: 2008030181

Nat. Bib. No.: GBA8A9287 bnb GBA8A9288 bnb

Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: 014754060 Uk 014754061 Uk

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Myth.

LC Class. No.: BL304 / .C68 2009

Dewey Class. No.: 201.3