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Myth / Laurence Coupe.

By: Material type: TextSeries: New critical idiomPublication details: London ; New York : Routledge, 2009.Edition: 2nd edDescription: 230 p. ; 21 cmISBN:
  • 9780415442411 (hardback : alk. paper)
  • 0415442419 (hardback : alk. paper)
  • 9780415442848 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 0415442842 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 9780203888087 (ebook)
  • 0203888081 (ebook)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 201.3 22
LOC classification:
  • BL304 .C68 2009
Other classification:
  • 73.56
  • 08.42
Online resources:
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.
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Adamson Nyoni Memorial Library Non-fiction 201.3 COU (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available OS15925
Total holds: 0

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.

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