Myth
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A01=Laurence Coupe
Apocalyptic Myth
Author_Laurence Coupe
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Circuitous Quest
creation
critical idiom series
cultural narrative theory
Cyclical Model
Don Cupitt
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Edgell Rickword
Enuma Elish
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fertility
Fertility Myth
Fertility Paradigm
Fisher King
golden
Golden Bough
Hanged Man
Held
literary myth analysis
myth and modernism
myth in popular culture
myth interpretation in literary studies
mythic
mythic archetypes
Mythic Reading
Mythical Method
Natural Beauty
Orthodox Typology
Political Unconscious
Positive Anima
Profane Time
radical
Radical Typology
reading
Returning Hero
rickword
Serres 1995a
St Thomas Aquinas
typology
Vegetation Ceremonies
Young Men
Product details
- ISBN 9780415442411
- Weight: 600g
- Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
- Publication Date: 09 Dec 2008
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Laurence Coupe offers students a comprehensive overview of the development of myth, showing how mythic themes, structures and symbols persist in literature and entertainment today. This introductory volume:
- illustrates the relation between myth, culture and literature with discussions of poetry, fiction, film and popular song
- explores uses made of the term ‘myth’ within the fields of literary criticism, anthropology, cultural studies, feminism, Marxism and psychoanalysis
- discusses the association between modernism, postmodernism, myth and history
- familiarizes the reader with themes such as the dying god, the quest for the Grail, the relation between ‘chaos’ and ‘cosmos’, and the vision of the end of time
- demonstrates the growing importance of the green dimension of myth.
Fully updated and revised in this new edition, Myth is both a concise introduction and a useful tool to students first approaching the topic, while also a valuable contribution to the study of myth.
Laurence Coupe is Senior Lecturer in English at Manchester Metropolitan University. He is the author of Kenneth Burke on Myth, Marina Warner and Beat Sound, Beat Vision, and he is the editor of The Green Studies Reader. For further information on this author please see www.laurencecoupe.co.uk
