Myth and Mythmaking
Author: Henry Alexander Murray
Publisher: Beacon Press (MA)
Published: 1968
Total Pages: 394
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Henry Alexander Murray
Publisher: Beacon Press (MA)
Published: 1968
Total Pages: 394
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Henry Alexander Murray
Publisher: Beacon Press (MA)
Published: 1968
Total Pages: 388
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Michael A. Fishbane
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Published: 2005
Total Pages: 486
ISBN-13: 9780199284207
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This is a comprehensive study of myth in the Hebrew Bible and myth and mythmaking in classical rabbinic literature (Midrash and Talmud) and in the classical work of medieval Jewish mysticism (the book of Zohar). Michael Fishbane provides a close study of the texts and theologies involved and the central role of exegesis in the development and transformation of the subject. Taken up are issues of myth and monotheism, myth and tradition, and myth and language. The presence and vitality of myth in successive cultural phases is treated, emphasizing certain paradigmatic acts of God and features of the divine personality.
Author: Julia Leslie
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-02-04
Total Pages: 204
ISBN-13: 1136778888
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Essays focusing on some of the ways in which myths have been made, and made to function, in the rich cultural history of India from the dawn of history through to the present day.
Author: Howard Bruce Franklin
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9780813520018
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This paperback edition of M.I.A. or Mythmaking in America adds major new material about Ross Perot's role, the 1991-1992 Senate investigation, and illegal operations authorized by Ronald Reagan. "An important and compelling book. . . . Franklin raises and answers all of the hardest questions about an enduring piece of political mythology."--The Philadelphia Inquirer "A calm and thoughtful book on a firestorm of a subject. . . . Intelligent, provocative, and courageous."--Kirkus Reviews
Author: Frank D. McConnell
Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press
Published: 1979
Total Pages: 328
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Julia Leslie
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-02-04
Total Pages: 195
ISBN-13: 1136778810
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Essays focusing on some of the ways in which myths have been made, and made to function, in the rich cultural history of India from the dawn of history through to the present day.
Author: Irving Singer
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2010-09-24
Total Pages: 257
ISBN-13: 0262264846
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Mythic themes and philosophical probing in film as an art form, as seen in works of Preston Sturges, Jean Cocteau, Stanley Kubrick, and various other filmmakers. Film is the supreme medium for mythmaking. The gods and heroes of mythology are both larger than life and deeply human; they teach us about the world, and they tell us a good story. Similarly, our experience of film is both distant and intimate. Cinematic techniques—panning, tracking, zooming, and the other tools in the filmmaker's toolbox—create a world that is unlike reality and yet realistic at the same time. We are passive spectators, but we also have a personal relationship with the images we are seeing. In Cinematic Mythmaking, Irving Singer explores the hidden and overt use of myth in various films and, in general, the philosophical elements of a film's meaning. Mythological themes, Singer writes, perform a crucial role in cinematic art and even philosophy itself. Singer incisively disentangles the strands of different myths in the films he discusses. He finds in Preston Sturges's The Lady Eve that Barbara Stanwyck's character is not just the biblical Eve but a liberated woman of our times; Eliza Doolittle in the filmed versions of Shaw's Pygmalion is not just a statue brought to life but instead a heroic woman who must survive her own dark night of the soul. The protagonist of William Wyler's The Heiress and Anieszka Holland's Washington Square is both suffering Dido and an awakened Amazon. Singer reads Cocteau's films—including La Belle et la Bête, Orphée, and The Testament of Orpheus—as uniquely mythological cinematic poetry. He compares Kubrickean and Homeric epics and analyzes in depth the self-referential mythmaking of Federico Fellini in many of his movies, including 8½. The aesthetic and probing inventiveness in film, Singer shows us, restores and revives for audiences in the twenty-first century myths of creation, of the questing hero, and of ideals—both secular and religious—that have had enormous significance throughout the human search for love and meaning in life.
Author: Züleyha Çetiner-Öktem
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Published: 2016-04-26
Total Pages: 375
ISBN-13: 1443892467
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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. The papers brought together here are motivated by two basic questions: How are myths made in diverse cultures and literatures? And, do all different cultures have different myths to be told in their artistic pursuits? To examine these questions, the book offers a wide array of articles by contributors from various cultures which focus on theory, history, space/ place, philosophy, literature, language, gender, and storytelling. Mythmaking across Boundaries not only brings together classical myths, but also contemporary constructions and reconstructions through different cultural perspectives by transcending boundaries. Using a wide spectrum of perspectives, this volume, instead of emphasising the different modes of the mythmaking process, connects numerous perceptions of mythmaking and investigates diversities among cultures, languages and literatures, viewing them as a unified whole. As the essays reflect on both academic and popular texts, the book will be useful to scholars and students, as well as the general reader.