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 68
עמוד 2
... thought . The " daemon and beast " in man , not the ego ( which is toppled from psychic primacy and is often blamed for psychic one - sidedness in Jung ) , is the imaginal magnet drawing man into the depths ; it is ' beastly ' only by ...
... thought . The " daemon and beast " in man , not the ego ( which is toppled from psychic primacy and is often blamed for psychic one - sidedness in Jung ) , is the imaginal magnet drawing man into the depths ; it is ' beastly ' only by ...
עמוד 4
... thought " ) , since mythology " has no obvious practical function . " 9 Leaving aside for the moment some serious bones of contention between structuralism 5 I prefer the word ' synchronicity ' to ' synchrony , ' for the latter ...
... thought " ) , since mythology " has no obvious practical function . " 9 Leaving aside for the moment some serious bones of contention between structuralism 5 I prefer the word ' synchronicity ' to ' synchrony , ' for the latter ...
עמוד 6
... thought should logically end in the loss of symbolism : ie , in silence.16 It would be tempting to be lured by the neat logic of structural anthropology into ar- guing that the relationship of the first , mythological part of my study ...
... thought should logically end in the loss of symbolism : ie , in silence.16 It would be tempting to be lured by the neat logic of structural anthropology into ar- guing that the relationship of the first , mythological part of my study ...
עמוד 9
... thought " ( 13 ) . Simi- larly , Joseph Campbell conjectures that , in the Near East round the mid - fourth millennium BC , " the obvious analogy of woman's life - giving and nourishing powers with those of the earth must already have ...
... thought " ( 13 ) . Simi- larly , Joseph Campbell conjectures that , in the Near East round the mid - fourth millennium BC , " the obvious analogy of woman's life - giving and nourishing powers with those of the earth must already have ...
עמוד 16
... thought is not prescientific ; it should be seen rather as an anticipation of the future state of science , whose past development and present trend show that it has always been progressing in the same direction.3 Mythology anticipates ...
... thought is not prescientific ; it should be seen rather as an anticipation of the future state of science , whose past development and present trend show that it has always been progressing in the same direction.3 Mythology anticipates ...
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