Myth and literature : contemporary theory and practice

Myth and literature : contemporary theory and practice / edited by John B. Vickery.

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Vickery, John B.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c1966.
Subjects:
Myth in literature.
Table of 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.

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