Myth / Laurence Coupe.
Material type: TextSeries: Publication details: London ; New York : Routledge, 2009.Edition: 2nd edDescription: 230 p. ; 21 cmISBN:- 9780415442411 (hardback : alk. paper)
- 0415442419 (hardback : alk. paper)
- 9780415442848 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 0415442842 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 9780203888087 (e-book)
- 0203888081 (e-book)
- 201.3 22
Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Books | Library, Independent University, Bangladesh (IUB) Available at Centre for Social Science Research | 201.3 C856m 2009 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 01 | Not For Loan | 022979 |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [215]-222) and index.
Part I. Reading myth : Order : Dying gods ; Words and the word ; The mythical method -- Chaos : The comic vision ; Singer as shaman ; The sacred and the profane ; The heart-of-darkness trip -- Endings : The circuitous quest ; The rhetoric of revelation ; Apocalypse without apocalypse -- Part II. Mythic reading : Truth : Realism and non-realism ; Allegory: the perspective of perfection ; Radical typology: permanent possibility ; Enlightenment and counter-enlightenment --Psyche : The primal crime ; The search for the self ; The grammar of the mind -- History : Criticism as vision ; A single story? ; Testaments of deliverance -- Earth : The war on nature ; Nature now and then ; Nature as revelation ; A religion of the world.