Myths Of The Modern Period
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Myths Of The Modern Period
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Author : Barry B Powell
language : en
Publisher: Independently Published
Release Date : 2024-03-03
Myths Of The Modern Period written by Barry B Powell and has been published by Independently Published this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-03-03 with Fiction categories.
This book surveys the myths of Mesoamerica, Oceania, North America, and Africa, with maps and color illustrations.
Myths For The Modern Age
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Author : Win Scott Eckert
language : en
Publisher: Monkeybrain
Release Date : 2005
Myths For The Modern Age written by Win Scott Eckert and has been published by Monkeybrain this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with categories.
In his classic biographies of fictional characters (Tarzan Alive and Doc Savage: His Apocalyptic Life), Hugo- and Nebula-award winning author Philip Jose Farmer introduced the Wold Newton family, a collection of heroes and villains whose family-tree includes Sherlock Holmes, Fu Manchu, Philip Marlowe, and James Bond. In books, stories, and essays he expanded the concept even further, adding more branches to the Wold Newton family-tree. MYTHS FOR THE MODERN AGE: PHILIP JOSE FARMER'S WOLD NEWTON UNIVERSE collects for the first time those rarely-seen essays. Expanding the family even farther are contributions from Farmer's successors-scholars, writers, and pop-culture historians-who bring even more fictional characters into the fold.
The Modern Myths
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Author : Philip Ball
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2022-10-17
The Modern Myths written by Philip Ball 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 2022-10-17 with Literary Criticism categories.
With The Modern Myths, brilliant science communicator Philip Ball spins a new yarn. From novels and comic books to B-movies, it is an epic exploration of literature, new media and technology, the nature of storytelling, and the making and meaning of our most important tales. Myths are usually seen as stories from the depths of time—fun and fantastical, but no longer believed by anyone. Yet, as Philip Ball shows, we are still writing them—and still living them—today. From Robinson Crusoe and Frankenstein to Batman, many stories written in the past few centuries are commonly, perhaps glibly, called “modern myths.” But Ball argues that we should take that idea seriously. Our stories of Dracula, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and Sherlock Holmes are doing the kind of cultural work that the ancient myths once did. Through the medium of narratives that all of us know in their basic outline and which have no clear moral or resolution, these modern myths explore some of our deepest fears, dreams, and anxieties. We keep returning to these tales, reinventing them endlessly for new uses. But what are they really about, and why do we need them? What myths are still taking shape today? And what makes a story become a modern myth? In The Modern Myths, Ball takes us on a wide-ranging tour of our collective imagination, asking what some of its most popular stories reveal about the nature of being human in the modern age.
Japan S Modern Myths
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Author : Carol Gluck
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2021-07-13
Japan S Modern Myths written by Carol Gluck 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 2021-07-13 with History categories.
Ideology played a momentous role in modern Japanese history. Not only did the elite of imperial Japan (1890-1945) work hard to influence the people to "yield as the grasses before the wind," but historians of modern Japan later identified these efforts as one of the underlying pathologies of World War II. Available for the first time in paperback, this study examines how this ideology evolved. Carol Gluck argues that the process of formulating and communicating new national values was less consistent than is usually supposed. By immersing the reader in the talk and thought of the late Meiji period, Professor Gluck recreates the diversity of ideological discourse experienced by Japanese of the time. The result is a new interpretation of the views of politics and the nation in imperial Japan.
Prehistoric Myths In Modern Political Philosophy
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Author : Karl Widerquist
language : en
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Release Date : 2016-12-07
Prehistoric Myths In Modern Political Philosophy written by Karl Widerquist and has been published by Edinburgh University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-12-07 with Philosophy categories.
How modern philosophers use and perpetuate myths about prehistoryThe state of nature, the origin of property, the origin of government, the primordial nature of inequality and war why do political philosophers talk so much about the Stone Age? And are they talking about a Stone Age that really happened, or is it just a convenient thought experiment to illustrate their points?Karl Widerquist and Grant S. McCall take a philosophical look at the origin of civilisation, examining political theories to show how claims about prehistory are used. Drawing on the best available evidence from archaeology and anthropology, they show that much of what we think we know about human origins comes from philosophers imagination, not scientific investigation.Key FeaturesShows how modern political theories employ ambiguous factual claims about prehistoryBrings archaeological and anthropological evidence to bear on those claimsTells the story of human origins in a way that reveals many commonly held misconceptions
Myths Of Modern Individualism
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Author : Ian Watt
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1996
Myths Of Modern Individualism written by Ian Watt 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 1996 with Literary Criticism categories.
In this volume, Ian Watt examines the myths of Faust, Don Quixote, Don Juan and Robinson Crusoe, as the distinctive products of modern society. He traces the way the original versions of Faust, Don Quixote and Don Juan - all written within a forty-year period during the Counter Reformation - presented unflattering portrayals of the three figures, while the Romantic period two centuries later recreated them as admirable and even heroic. The twentieth century retained their prestige as mythical figures, but with a new note of criticism. Robinson Crusoe came much later than the other three, but his fate can be seen as representative of the new religious, economic and social attitudes which succeeded the Counter-Reformation. The four figures help to reveal problems of individualism in the modern period: solitude, narcissism, and the claims of the self versus the claims of society. They all pursue their own view of what they should be, raising strong questions about their heroes' character and the societies whose ideals they reflect.
Pan The Goat God His Myth In Modern Times
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Author : Patricia Merivale
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1969
Pan The Goat God His Myth In Modern Times written by Patricia Merivale and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1969 with Social Science categories.
In the first chapter, the author examines the development of these various Pan images from classical through eighteenth-century literature. The rest of the book analyzes more fully the modern literary manifestations of the god: especially the Orphic Pan of the Romantic poets, the Plutarchan Pan of the Victorians, and the double cult of the benevolent and the sinister Pan from 1890 to 1914, when Pan was the most fashionable mythic motif for the minor writer. Some of the most intriguing versions of the theme are found in the benevolent Pan of fable (as in Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows, or E M Forester's "The Story of a Panic"), and in the malevolent Pan of the horror story, from Arthur Machen to Faulkner. One chapter deals with the richest development of the Pan myth in modern times -D.H. Lawrence's use of the motif to express his own sense of the darkly irrational.
Historia And Fabula
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Author : Peter G. Bietenholz
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 1994
Historia And Fabula written by Peter G. Bietenholz and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with History categories.
Examining a variety of texts ranging from the Ancient Near East to the nineteenth century, this book deals with the inevitable presence of both fact and fiction in historical thought and investigates when, where and to what degree they were distinguished.
The Rise Of Modern Mythology 1680 1860
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Author : Burton Feldman
language : en
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Release Date : 2000-04-22
The Rise Of Modern Mythology 1680 1860 written by Burton Feldman and has been published by Indiana University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-04-22 with Literary Criticism categories.
A book on modern mythology
The Modern Construction Of Myth
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Author : Andrew Von Hendy
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2002-01-30
The Modern Construction Of Myth written by Andrew Von Hendy and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-01-30 with History categories.
". . . one of the richest, clearest, and acutest surveys to date of the course of theorizing about myth from the eighteenth century on. I know of no more useful volume on the topic. Despite the postmodern connotations of the title, Von Hendy is writing not to expose the concept of myth but simply to show the array of ways in which it has been used from time to time and from place to place. A superb work." —Robert A. Segal, University of Lancaster, author of Theorizing about Myth Andrew Von Hendy offers an integrated critical account of the career of myth in modernity. He takes as its starting point some crucial moments in the 18th-century reinvention of the concept and then follows the major branches of theorizing as they appear in the work of theologians, philosophers, literary artists, political thinkers, folklorists, anthropologists, psychologists, and others. Von Hendy pursues each of these four fundamental strains of theory through the 20th century: the rise of neo-romantic theories in depth psychology, modernist literature, and later in religious phenomenology, philosophy, and literary criticism; the establishment of folkloristic theory in ethnological fieldwork and in classical studies; the growth of ideological theories from Sorel to Barthes and Derrida; and the recent ascent of constitutive theories of myth as necessary fiction. Finally, Von Hendy examines the work of five theorists who attempt to come to terms with the lessons of the ideological critique, yet regard myth as a constructive phenomenon.
