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. |
מתוך הספר
תוצאות 1-5 מתוך 62
עמוד
... White's The Solid Mandala 119 Lethal Forms Martin Amis's Other People 175 The Secular Postman Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses 209 The Lapsarian Ascent Wilson Harris's Companions of the Day and Night 255 Conclusion The Healing Art ...
... White's The Solid Mandala 119 Lethal Forms Martin Amis's Other People 175 The Secular Postman Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses 209 The Lapsarian Ascent Wilson Harris's Companions of the Day and Night 255 Conclusion The Healing Art ...
עמוד 2
... White , Mar- tin Amis , Salman Rushdie and Wilson Harris . The Babylonian cosmogony ( the Enuma 3 Christopher Butler , Interpretation , Deconstruction and Ideology : An Introduction to Some Current Issues in Literary Theory ( Oxford ...
... White , Mar- tin Amis , Salman Rushdie and Wilson Harris . The Babylonian cosmogony ( the Enuma 3 Christopher Butler , Interpretation , Deconstruction and Ideology : An Introduction to Some Current Issues in Literary Theory ( Oxford ...
עמוד 10
... White , Rushdie and Harris , and by the postmodernist talent of Martin Amis . These writers ' idiosyncratic Vocabulary ' is of much greater moment to me than their timeless , lapsarian syntax . Granted , there is a structuralist element ...
... White , Rushdie and Harris , and by the postmodernist talent of Martin Amis . These writers ' idiosyncratic Vocabulary ' is of much greater moment to me than their timeless , lapsarian syntax . Granted , there is a structuralist element ...
עמוד 11
... White ; Amis ; Rushdie and Harris ) have retrieved the lapsarian , death - stricken fossils ( the archetypes ) lying in their unconscious / Valley full of bones ' ; they have covered these fossils with cultural / carnal flesh and have ...
... White ; Amis ; Rushdie and Harris ) have retrieved the lapsarian , death - stricken fossils ( the archetypes ) lying in their unconscious / Valley full of bones ' ; they have covered these fossils with cultural / carnal flesh and have ...
עמוד 12
... White's fictionalizations of individual / psychological fall from , respectively , a symbiotic relationship to nature and geminate unity are compounded with a strong collective element . It is the inheritors ' of the extinct ...
... White's fictionalizations of individual / psychological fall from , respectively , a symbiotic relationship to nature and geminate unity are compounded with a strong collective element . It is the inheritors ' of the extinct ...
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 |
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