Inlets of the Soul: Contemporary Fiction in English and the Myth of the FallRodopi, 1999 - 321 עמודים The relationship of myth to literature has largely been overshadowed in contemporary theory by perspectives of a linguistic or sociological orientation and by relativist, sometimes negatory, stances on all searches for meaning. This book attempts to show that myth criticism and critical theories of more recent provenance are not irreconcilable. While taking into consideration some of the more influential tenets of structuralist, post-structuralist, Marxist and feminist theory, it applies a post-Jungian ('archetypal') approach to illustrating the perennial nature of a particular myth (the Fall of Man) in two main traditions (Mesopotamian and Christian) and in the contemporary novel in English. The discussions of five major novels by William Golding, Patrick White, Martin Amis, Salman Rushdie, and Wilson Harris not only serve to expand the mythological insights achieved in the first part of the book; they also suggest the incommensurability of imaginal, novelistic life with mythology's age-old intuitions about the human condition. Myth criticism emerges from this book as an irreplaceable vantage-point from which man's lapsarian predicament can be scrutinized synchronically as archaic wisdom, contemporary anxiety, and post-colonial commitment to the building of a new human city. |
תוכן
15 | |
The Perilous Leap | 81 |
Mysterium coniunctionis | 93 |
Patrick Whites The Solid Mandala | 119 |
Lethal Forms | 175 |
The Secular Postman | 209 |
The Lapsarian Ascent | 255 |
Conclusion | 284 |
The Healing Art | 291 |
Works Cited | 311 |
מהדורות אחרות - הצג הכל
מונחים וביטויים נפוצים
Alchemy ambivalent Amis's androgynous anima animal archetypal Arthur Brown centre Chamcha chapter child Child Archetype Christ Christian chthonic Claude Lévi-Strauss Comte-Sponville consciousness cosmic cosmos counterpart critical culture dark death demonic divine dualities Dulcie Enkidu Enuma Elish essence essentialist eternal ethical evil fall Farishta father female fiction fire Fool Fool's Freud Frye geminate Gibreel Gilgamesh Golding's Gospels Harmondsworth Harris's Harrisian human hybridity incest Inheritors inner instinctual Jesus Jung Jung's Jungian lapsarian Lévi-Strauss literary Lok's man's Mary Lamb materialist metaphor Mother motherly motif myth mythology nature novel oneiric paradoxically parodic Patrick White Penguin people's post-colonial Poulter Prince psyche psychic Psychology rebirth regression religious romantic Rushdie Rushdie's Rushdiean Saladin Salman Salman Rushdie Satanic Verses seems sense sexual social Solid Mandala spiritual structure suggests symbolical Tiamat timeless Totem tree turn twin unconscious unity unus mundus vision visionary Waldo Brown William Golding Wilson Harris womb word
קטעים בולטים
עמוד 88 - Lo, the poor Indian! whose untutored mind Sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind: His soul, proud science never taught to stray Far as the solar walk or Milky Way...
עמוד 75 - Neither pray I for these alone but for them also which shall believe on me through their word, that they all may be one,— as thou Father art in me and I in thee that they also may be one in us : that the world may believe that thou hast sent me. And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them, that they may be one even as we are one.
עמוד 69 - And if thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee : for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell.
עמוד 72 - The father shall be divided against the son, and the son against the father; the mother against the daughter, and the daughter against the mother...
עמוד 78 - Consider the ravens: for they neither sow nor reap; which neither have storehouse nor barn; and God feedeth them: how much more are ye better than the fowls?
עמוד 85 - And the Lord shall guide thee continually, and satisfy thy soul in drought, and make fat thy bones: and thou shalt be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters fail not.
עמוד 84 - Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house? when thou seest the naked that thou cover him; and that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh? Then shall thy light break forth as the morning, and thine health shall spring forth speedily: and thy righteousness shall go before thee; the glory of the Lord shall be thy rereward.
עמוד 75 - I have given them thy word ; and the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.
עמוד 78 - Consider the lilies how they grow: they toil not, they spin not; and yet I say unto you, that Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.
עמוד 63 - For there are some eunuchs, which were so born from their mother's womb: and there are some eunuchs, which were made eunuchs of men: and there be eunuchs, which have made themselves eunuchs for the kingdom of heaven's sake. He that is able to receive it, let him receive it.