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 82
עמוד 9
... seems to be a universal datum in primitive cosmolo- gies , the social counterpart of this cosmic tenet being the matriarchal nature of social organization.25 Jung suggests that the mother archetype , which " appears under an almost ...
... seems to be a universal datum in primitive cosmolo- gies , the social counterpart of this cosmic tenet being the matriarchal nature of social organization.25 Jung suggests that the mother archetype , which " appears under an almost ...
עמוד 12
... seems to resist all rhetorical labels , Rushdie admittedly endorses the post - colonial ' cause ' of cultural hybridity ; at the same time , he effects intricate postmodernist parodies of ' classical ' texts , seems to side with ...
... seems to resist all rhetorical labels , Rushdie admittedly endorses the post - colonial ' cause ' of cultural hybridity ; at the same time , he effects intricate postmodernist parodies of ' classical ' texts , seems to side with ...
עמוד 16
... seems to imply that man arbitrarily reads into the physical universe a number of inner contents . If such a hypothesis were right , mythology would be a manipulative verbal sys- tem foisting meaning upon human life , suggesting that man ...
... seems to imply that man arbitrarily reads into the physical universe a number of inner contents . If such a hypothesis were right , mythology would be a manipulative verbal sys- tem foisting meaning upon human life , suggesting that man ...
עמוד 21
... seems to be that the " Babylon " referred to in the fifth and sixth tablets of the myth is " the mystical Babylon , the celestial prototype of the earthly Babylon that men will later build . " 15 Babylon and the Tower of Babel are ...
... seems to be that the " Babylon " referred to in the fifth and sixth tablets of the myth is " the mystical Babylon , the celestial prototype of the earthly Babylon that men will later build . " 15 Babylon and the Tower of Babel are ...
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