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Mythopoesis: mythic patterns in the literary classics.
- Title
- Mythopoesis: mythic patterns in the literary classics.
- Author
- Slochower, Harry, 1900-1991
- Publication
- Detroit, Wayne State University Press, 1970.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | PN56.M95 S5 1970b | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- 362 pages illustrations; 24 cm
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographies.
- Contents
- Preface: Mythpoesis: the tradition of creativity -- Introduction -- Hebrew memory of a chosen God: the Book of Job -- Greek mythopoesis: the blessed crime -- Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides -- The Catholic vision of divine harmony: The Divine Comedy -- The golden age of chivalry: Don Quixote -- Renaissance mythopoesis: Hamlet -- Teutonic inwardness: Faust -- The quest for an American myth: Moby Dick -- The pan-Slavic image of the earth mother: The Brothers Karamazov -- The Marxist homage to creative labor: Pelle the Conqueror -- The French myth of the living social chain: André Gide's Theseus -- Contemporary myth of the impersonal antagonist: Franz Kafka -- The existentialist myth: the value of homelessness: The Myth of Sisyphus and The Flies -- Threat and promise in Germanic insulation: The Magic Mountain and Doctor Faustus -- Conclusion -- Appendices -- I. Primitive and oriental mythology -- II. A note on the Prometheus of Shelley and Goethe -- III. A note on Virgil's Aeneid -- IV. A note on Eissler's Goethe -- V.A note on Mark Twain and Walt Whitman -- VI. Freud's analysis of a Katya figure -- VII. Appendix to the conclusion: related philosophic attitudes.
- ISBN
- 0814313957
- 9780814313954
- LCCN
- 69011337
- OCLC
- ocm00058412
- 58412
- SCSB-383112
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library