Myth and Mythmaking
Worlds Within Women
Focusing on the connection between metaphor and myth, Thelma Shinn provides a methaphoric reading of fantastic literature by women that enables the reader to glimpse its underlying mythic purpose and content.
Author: Thelma J. Shinn
Publisher: Greenwood Publishing Group
ISBN: 9780313251016
Page: 214
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Myth and Meaning Myth and Order
Biblical Myth and Rabbinic Mythmaking
Over the course of three main sections focused on biblical, rabbinic, and zoharic sources, Fishbane lays to rest modern biases against monotheistic myths through a masterful, systematic exploration of various cosmogonies, theomachies, and ...
Author: Michael A. Fishbane
Publisher: Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN: 9780199284207
Page: 458
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The New South Creed
First published in 1970, The New South Creed has lost none of its usefulness to anyone examining the dream of a "New South" -- prosperous, powerful, racially harmonious -- that developed in the three decades after the Civil War, and the ...
Author: Paul M. Gaston
Publisher: NewSouth Books
ISBN: 1603061444
Page: 195
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Mythmaking across Boundaries
This volume explores the dynamics of myths throughout time and space, along with the mythmaking processes in various cultures, literatures and languages, in a wide range of fields, ranging from cultural studies to the history of art.
Author: Züleyha Çetiner-Öktem
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1443892467
Page: 375
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Myth and Literature
This collection of thirty-four major essays devoted to the theories, methods, and problems of myth criticism offers a convenient and substantial introduction to one of the most distinctive trends in contemporary literary study.
Author: John B. Vickery
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803252080
Page: 391
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