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 64
עמוד 8
... line of argument , for the Mother will turn out to be the most conspicuous ' hidden presence ' in the Near - Eastern myths that I shall be dealing with ( and also , to some extent , in the fiction 19 Fredric Jameson , The Political ...
... line of argument , for the Mother will turn out to be the most conspicuous ' hidden presence ' in the Near - Eastern myths that I shall be dealing with ( and also , to some extent , in the fiction 19 Fredric Jameson , The Political ...
עמוד 13
... lines . Such a visionary re - thinking of the matter of culture is yielding a radically renewed aesthetic of the novel . Not only are the forms of the novel hybridized , but its thematic involves a quite original conjunction of essence ...
... lines . Such a visionary re - thinking of the matter of culture is yielding a radically renewed aesthetic of the novel . Not only are the forms of the novel hybridized , but its thematic involves a quite original conjunction of essence ...
עמוד 16
... lines to those pursued by Jung : it is not impossible that advances in biochemistry may one day provide objective references of the same degree of accuracy as a check on the precision and coherence of the codes formulated in the ...
... lines to those pursued by Jung : it is not impossible that advances in biochemistry may one day provide objective references of the same degree of accuracy as a check on the precision and coherence of the codes formulated in the ...
עמוד 20
... line of his body stationed above the Babylonian hell ( 102 ) . The cosmic pole in the alignment of the god's body is rooted in the underworld and rises , through our middle earth , to the empyrean . The prominent earthly symbol of this ...
... line of his body stationed above the Babylonian hell ( 102 ) . The cosmic pole in the alignment of the god's body is rooted in the underworld and rises , through our middle earth , to the empyrean . The prominent earthly symbol of this ...
עמוד 29
אנו מתנצלים, אך הגישה לתוכן של עמוד זה מוגבלת.
אנו מתנצלים, אך הגישה לתוכן של עמוד זה מוגבלת.
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