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Classical and contemporary mythic identities : construction of the literary imagination / edited by Amina Alyal and Paul Hardwick ; with a foreword by Laurence Coupe.

Title
Classical and contemporary mythic identities : construction of the literary imagination / edited by Amina Alyal and Paul Hardwick ; with a foreword by Laurence Coupe.
Publication
Lewiston, N.Y. : Edwin Mellen Press, c2010.

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Additional Authors
  • Alyal, Amina
  • Hardwick, Paul
Description
xiii, 275 p.; 24 cm.
Subject
  • Myth in literature
  • Group identity in literature
  • Myth in motion pictures
  • Literature and myth
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Foreword / Laurence Coupe -- Introduction / Paul Hardwick -- Chapter 1. Everywhere Be Dragons: The Persistence of Dragon Legends in the Creation Debate / David Marshall -- Chapter 2. Everyone's Hero? Enlisting Cu Chulain in the Construction of Conflicting Myths of Identity in Ireland / John Poulter -- Chapter 3. Tregeagle and the C̀ornwall of the Mind'/ Shouting the Darkness / Paul Hardwick -- Chapter 4. Confronting Ismene: An Exploration of Transformational Archetypal Energies through the Myths of the Ancestors in Pan's Labyrinth, Once Were Warriors, and Whale Rider / Maggie Roux -- Chapter 5. Unpacking Pandora's Box: The Redemption of an Ancient Anti-heroine for a Twenty-first-Century Audience in US TV Series Xena Warrior Princess and Charmed / Amanda Potter -- Chapter 6. Galatea as Transformation, Commodity and Simulacrum in Contemporary Anglophone Films' / Roberta N. Rude -- Chapter 7. Òf shapes transformde to bodies straunge': Metamorphic Forms and Personae in Poems from Page to Performance / Cliff Forshaw -- Chapter 8. The Hobo as Mythic Hero in Bob Dylan's Lyrics / Scott Freer -- Chapter 9. Casino Royale and the Ian Fleming Myth: Naturalising Authorship and Originality as Cultural Value / Benjamin Earl -- Chapter 10. World within a World: The Conspiracy Theory and Monomyth / Tim Leadbeater.
ISBN
  • 9780773437982
  • 0773437983
LCCN
^^2009044633
OCLC
  • 460061137
  • SCSB-11692372
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library