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 43
עמוד 1
... meaning in the text , in music , in art . " Within what may currently be the most neglected of all critical realms : ie , archetypal criticism , my own commitment in this book will be to the " life of meaning in [ literary texts ] ...
... meaning in the text , in music , in art . " Within what may currently be the most neglected of all critical realms : ie , archetypal criticism , my own commitment in this book will be to the " life of meaning in [ literary texts ] ...
עמוד 2
... meaning along medial ' paths of wisdom , ' nor is it prone to encouraging the reality of ' depths , ' the priority of the individual over the collective , the erection of bridges over dichotomies , or the notion that there can be such a ...
... meaning along medial ' paths of wisdom , ' nor is it prone to encouraging the reality of ' depths , ' the priority of the individual over the collective , the erection of bridges over dichotomies , or the notion that there can be such a ...
עמוד 5
... meaning , when they proceed upward from the phonetic , the lexical and the grammatic to the semantic and aesthetic . " 14 In his ' mythological ' writings , Levi - Strauss precisely formalizes meaning ' on the basis of Saus- 10 Jung ...
... meaning , when they proceed upward from the phonetic , the lexical and the grammatic to the semantic and aesthetic . " 14 In his ' mythological ' writings , Levi - Strauss precisely formalizes meaning ' on the basis of Saus- 10 Jung ...
עמוד 6
... meaning . To put this in Saussurean terms : the covenant binding the signified or ' form ' to the floating signifier or ' meaning ' is repealed . Only a formal husk is under structuralist scrutiny ; psychic depths and the individual ...
... meaning . To put this in Saussurean terms : the covenant binding the signified or ' form ' to the floating signifier or ' meaning ' is repealed . Only a formal husk is under structuralist scrutiny ; psychic depths and the individual ...
עמוד 13
... meaning at the end ; in between lies the imaginative , inventive process that turns nature into a cultural artefact suffused with meaning and ethical awareness . There inheres in the motif of the Fall a redemptive element which has been ...
... meaning at the end ; in between lies the imaginative , inventive process that turns nature into a cultural artefact suffused with meaning and ethical awareness . There inheres in the motif of the Fall a redemptive element which has been ...
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