Symbols And Myth Making In Modernity

Author : Tatiana Tiaynen-Qadir
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781785272813
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Symbols and Myth-Making in Modernity written by Tatiana Tiaynen-Qadir and published by . This book was released on 2022-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Symbols and Myth-Making in Modernity' unpacks the deep culture that nourishes human perception of reality through symbols. From ancient mythical creatures and rites through masterpieces of Renaissance to modern art and cinema, the book illustrates how ever-present cross-cultural symbols erupt in popular culture today, and what work they do in transforming the self and society.

Author : F. Parvin Sharpless
Publisher : Rochelle Park, N.J. : Hayden Book Company
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Symbol and Myth in Modern Literature written by F. Parvin Sharpless and published by Rochelle Park, N.J. : Hayden Book Company. This book was released on 1976 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004458514
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Myth and the Making of Modernity written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-04-19 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The contributors to this collection of essays on the literary use of myth in the early twentieth century and its literary and philosophical precedents from romanticism onwards draw on a range of disciplines, from anthropology, comparative literature, and literary criticism, to philosophy and religious studies. The underlying assumption is that modernist myth-making does not retreat from modernity, but projects a mode of being for the future which the past could serve to define. Modernist myth is not an attempted recovery of an archaic form of life so much as a sophisticated self-conscious equivalent. Far from seeking a return to an earlier romantic valorizing of myth, these essays show how the true interest of early twentieth-century myth-making lies in the consciousness, affirmative as well as tragic, of living in a human world which, in so far as it must embody value, can have no ultimate grounding. Although myth may initially appear to be the archaic counterterm to modernity, it is thus also the paradigm on which modernity has repeatedly reconstructed, or come to understand, its own life forms. The very term myth, by combining, in its modern usage, the rival meanings of a grounding narrative and a falsehood, encapsulates a central problem of modernity: how to live, given what we know.

Author : Michael Bell
Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 9789042005839
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Myth and the Making of Modernity written by Michael Bell and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 1998 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The contributors to this collection of essays on the literary use of myth in the early twentieth century and its literary and philosophical precedents from romanticism onwards draw on a range of disciplines, from anthropology, comparative literature, and literary criticism, to philosophy and religious studies. The underlying assumption is that modernist myth-making does not retreat from modernity, but projects a mode of being for the future which the past could serve to define. Modernist myth is not an attempted recovery of an archaic form of life so much as a sophisticated self-conscious equivalent. Far from seeking a return to an earlier romantic valorizing of myth, these essays show how the true interest of early twentieth-century myth-making lies in the consciousness, affirmative as well as tragic, of living in a human world which, in so far as it must embody value, can have no ultimate grounding. Although myth may initially appear to be the archaic counterterm to modernity, it is thus also the paradigm on which modernity has repeatedly reconstructed, or come to understand, its own life forms. The very term myth, by combining, in its modern usage, the rival meanings of a grounding narrative and a falsehood, encapsulates a central problem of modernity: how to live, given what we know.

Author : Sal Randazzo
Publisher : Irwin Professional Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781557388957
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Myth Makers written by Sal Randazzo and published by Irwin Professional Publishing. This book was released on 1995 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ariel Golan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Myth and Symbol written by Ariel Golan and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Mircea Eliade
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 458 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Myths and Symbols written by Mircea Eliade and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the period domoninated by the triumphs of scientific rationalism, how do we account for the extraordinary success of such occult movements as astrology or the revival of witchcraft? From his perspective as a historian of religions, the eminent scholar Mircea Eliade shows that such popular trends develop from archaic roots and periodically resurface in certain myths, symbols, and rituals. In six lucid essays collected for this volume, Eliade reveals the profound religious significance that lies at the heart of many contemporary cultural vogues. Since all of the essays except the last were originally delivered as lectures, their introductory character and lively oral style make them particularly accessible to the intelligent nonspecialist. Rather than a popularization, Occultism, Witchcraft, and Cultural Fashions is the fulfillment of Eliade's conviction that the history of religions should be read by the widest possible audience.

Author : Clifford Geertz
Publisher : W. W. Norton
ISBN 13 : 9780393042542
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Myth, Symbol, and Culture written by Clifford Geertz and published by W. W. Norton. This book was released on 1972 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jack Tresidder
Publisher : Duncan Baird Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781844830138
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Complete Dictionary of Symbols written by Jack Tresidder and published by Duncan Baird Publishers. This book was released on 2004 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covering classical and other mythologies, biblical themes and the world of traditional symbols from cultures worldwide, this is a guide to more than 2000 major themes, figures and symbols that have been most commonly encountered from ancient times to the present day.

Author : Alan M. Olson
Publisher : University of Notre Dame Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Myth, Symbol, and Reality written by Alan M. Olson and published by University of Notre Dame Press. This book was released on 1980 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: