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 2
... individual determinant of collective history . It avers the dualistic nature of human existence in the aftermath of the emergence of consciousness ; yet it tells us that there is a narrow path of S visdom ' to be trodden between the ...
... individual determinant of collective history . It avers the dualistic nature of human existence in the aftermath of the emergence of consciousness ; yet it tells us that there is a narrow path of S visdom ' to be trodden between the ...
עמוד 3
... individual lies a medial ( existential and social ) dimension : that of culture , which is en- coded as a timeless , divine essence in the Enuma Elish and as a bittersweet , ambivalent gift of the gods to mankind in the more ...
... individual lies a medial ( existential and social ) dimension : that of culture , which is en- coded as a timeless , divine essence in the Enuma Elish and as a bittersweet , ambivalent gift of the gods to mankind in the more ...
עמוד 5
... individual lexicon where each of us accumulates the vocabulary of his personal history , but that this vocabulary becomes significant , for us and for others , only to the extent that the unconscious structures it according to its laws ...
... individual lexicon where each of us accumulates the vocabulary of his personal history , but that this vocabulary becomes significant , for us and for others , only to the extent that the unconscious structures it according to its laws ...
עמוד 6
... individual human factor involved in creative writing ( indeed , human genius ) are denied . Paradoxically , Levi - Strauss himself was aware of the fact that the limited set of ' laws ' isolated by structural anthropology was ...
... individual human factor involved in creative writing ( indeed , human genius ) are denied . Paradoxically , Levi - Strauss himself was aware of the fact that the limited set of ' laws ' isolated by structural anthropology was ...
עמוד 8
... individual . As for ' human nature , ' this is an inven- tion of ethical criticism , the latest version of which is " the mirage of some Jungian ' self ' or ' ego " ( sic ) .23 There is not much in all this that I can accept . The ...
... individual . As for ' human nature , ' this is an inven- tion of ethical criticism , the latest version of which is " the mirage of some Jungian ' self ' or ' ego " ( sic ) .23 There is not much in all this that I can accept . The ...
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 |
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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