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Myth (New Critical Idiom) Book

Laurence Coupe offers students a comprehensive overview of the development of myth, showing how mythic themes, structures and symbols persist in literature and entertainment today. This introductory volume:illustrates the relation between myth, culture and literature with discussions of poetry, fiction, film and popular songexplores uses made of the term ‘myth’ within the fields of literary criticism, anthropology, cultural studies, feminism, Marxism and psychoanalysisdiscusses the association between modernism, postmodernism, myth and historyfamiliarizes the reader with themes such as the dying god, the quest for the Grail, the relation between ‘chaos’ and ‘cosmos’, and the vision of the end of timedemonstrates the growing importance of the green dimension of myth.Fully updated and revised in this new edition, Myth is both a concise introduction and a useful tool to students first approaching the topic, while also a valuable contribution to the study of myth.Read More

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    Illustrates the relation between myth culture and literature with discussions of poetry fiction film and popular song; explores uses made of the term 'myth' within the fields of literary criticism anthropology cultural studies feminism Marxism and psychoanalysis.

  • Blackwell

    Offering a concise and illuminating introduction to the most important areas of myth, this fully updated and revised second edition contains new chapters and student-friendly features. Essential reading for students of any level wanting an...

  • 0415442842
  • 9780415442848
  • Laurence Coupe
  • 11 December 2008
  • Routledge
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 240
  • 2
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