From History To Myth
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Myth In History History In Myth
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Author :
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2009-08-31
Myth In History History In Myth written by and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-08-31 with History categories.
Based on the proceedings of a 2005 conference, this volume re-examines the role of Dutch social and patriotic myths. Using recent methodological approaches, the essays assess how the Dutch perceived their myths and how they were treated by previous historians.
A Short History Of Myth
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Author : Karen Armstrong
language : en
Publisher: Canongate Books
Release Date : 2008-10-30
A Short History Of Myth written by Karen Armstrong and has been published by Canongate Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-10-30 with Social Science categories.
As long as we have been human, we have been mythmakers. In A Short History of Myth, Karen Armstrong holds up the mirror of mythology to show us the history of ourselves, and embarks on a journey that begins at a Neanderthal graveside and ends buried in the heart of the modern novel. Surprising, powerful and profound, A Short History of Myth examines the world's most ancient art form - the making and telling of stories - and why we still need it.
Cleopatra Of Egypt
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Author : Susan Walker
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2001
Cleopatra Of Egypt written by Susan Walker and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Art categories.
Published to coincide with a major exhibition of work featuring the great Egyptian queen, this celebration of Cleopatra includes coins, statues, and engravings and discusses various portrayals of Cleopatra in plays, operas, ceramics, jewelry, paintings, and other media .
The Great Wall Of China
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Author : Arthur Waldron
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1990-07-27
The Great Wall Of China written by Arthur Waldron and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990-07-27 with History categories.
This is the first full scholarly study of the Great Wall of China to appear in any language, and it challenges many deeply held ideas about Chinese history. Drawing both on primary sources and on the latest archaeology, the book first demonstrates that the standard account of the Great Wall is untrue and misleading and then presents a convincing new account. It begins by tracing the various walls and systems of frontier defences that existed in early Chinese history, and shows how the greatest of these achieved a mythical symbolic stature which long survived the Wall itself. A striking concluding chapter traces how the true history of the Wall was lost in the early twentieth century as it was gradually transformed into a Chinese national symbol explained through historical myth. The book is an important contribution to the history of China's defensive policy, and her ideological attitudes, and will be of interest both to students of Chinese history and of international relations in the pre-modern world.
A Short History Of Myth
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Author : Karen Armstrong
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2005
A Short History Of Myth written by Karen Armstrong and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Myth categories.
Human beings have always been mythmakers. Theologian Armstrong here investigates myth: what it is, how it has evolved, and why we still so desperately need it. She takes us from the Paleolithic period and the myths of the hunters, up to the Great Western Transformation of the last five hundred years and the discrediting of myth by science. The history of myth is the history of humanity, our stories and beliefs, our curiosity and attempts to understand the world, which link us to our ancestors and each other.--From publisher description.
Myth And History In Ancient Greece
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Author : Claude Calame
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2003-07-22
Myth And History In Ancient Greece written by Claude Calame and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-07-22 with History categories.
Surely the ancient Greeks would have been baffled to see what we consider their "mythology." Here, Claude Calame mounts a powerful critique of modern-day misconceptions on this front and the lax methodology that has allowed them to prevail. He argues that the Greeks viewed their abundance of narratives not as a single mythology but as an "archaeology." They speculated symbolically on key historical events so that a community of believing citizens could access them efficiently, through ritual means. Central to the book is Calame's rigorous and fruitful analysis of various accounts of the foundation of that most "mythical" of the Greek colonies--Cyrene, in eastern Libya. Calame opens with a magisterial historical survey demonstrating today's misapplication of the terms "myth" and "mythology." Next, he examines the Greeks' symbolic discourse to show that these modern concepts arose much later than commonly believed. Having established this interpretive framework, Calame undertakes a comparative analysis of six accounts of Cyrene's foundation: three by Pindar and one each by Herodotus (in two different versions), Callimachus, and Apollonius of Rhodes. We see how the underlying narrative was shaped in each into a poetically sophisticated, distinctive form by the respective medium, a particular poetical genre, and the specific socio-historical circumstances. Calame concludes by arguing in favor of the Greeks' symbolic approach to the past and by examining the relation of mythos to poetry and music.
History And Myth Postcolonial Dimensions
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Author : Arti Nirmal
language : en
Publisher: Vernon Press
Release Date : 2022-02-01
History And Myth Postcolonial Dimensions written by Arti Nirmal and has been published by Vernon Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-02-01 with History categories.
This anthology, 'History and Myth: Postcolonial Dimensions', seeks to interrogate and dismantle the colonially structured symmetrical interpretations of the histories and mythological narratives of the former European colonies through depolarization, pluriversality, and border thinking. Here, the concepts of history and myth have been addressed from different perspectives and spatiotemporal zones by scholars from different parts of the world, which add to the global value of the book. It has been argued in this volume that the understanding of postcolonial histories and myths in the contemporary era is highly influenced by the colonially fashioned binaries: valid/ invalid, civilized/barbaric, inclusive/exclusive, relevant/irrelevant, good/bad, etc., which continue to preserve the epistemic citadels of coloniality and selectively promote such historical and mythological narratives that celebrate the superiority of the Global North and the inferiority of the Global South. This book will be of particular interest to scholars, researchers, teachers, and those interested in understanding history, postcolonial studies, decolonial studies, cultural studies, literature, and sociology.
Science Between Myth And History
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Author : José G. Perillán
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2021
Science Between Myth And History written by José G. Perillán and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021 with Science categories.
Science Between Myth and History explores scientific storytelling and its implications on the teaching, practice, and public perception of science. In communicating their science, scientists tend to use historical narratives for important rhetorical purposes. This text explores the implications of doing this.
History And Myth In Romanian Consciousness
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Author : Lucian Boia
language : en
Publisher: Central European University Press
Release Date : 2001-01-01
History And Myth In Romanian Consciousness written by Lucian Boia and has been published by Central European University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-01-01 with History categories.
There is a considerable difference between real history and discourse history - this book stems from this idea. The author points out that history is constantly reconstructed, adapted and sometimes mythified from the perspective of the present day, of present states of mind and ideologies. Boia closely examines the process of historical culture and conscience in nineteenth and twentieth century Romania, particularly concentrating on the impact of the national ideology on history. Based upon his findings, the author identifies several key mythical configurations and analyses the manner in which Romanians have reconstituted their own highly ideologized history over the last two centuries. The strength of History and Myth in Romanian Consciousness lies in the author's ability to fully deconstruct the entire Romanian historiographic system and demonstrate the increasing acuteness of national problems in general, and in particular the exploitation of history to support national ideology.
Between History And Myth
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Author : Bruce Lincoln
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2014-09
Between History And Myth written by Bruce Lincoln and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-09 with History categories.
Medieval accounts of how Norway was unified by its first king provide a lively, revealing, and wonderfully entertaining example of this process. Taking the story of how Harald Fairhair unified Norway in the ninth century as its central example, Bruce Lincoln illuminates the way a state's foundation story blurs the distinction between history and myth and how variant tellings of origin stories provide opportunities for dissidence and subversion as subtle - or not so subtle - modifications are introduced through details of character, incident, and plot structure.