Binding: Paperback
Description: 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.
Title: Myth
Author(s): Coupe Laurence
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Barcode: 9780415442848
Pages: 240 Pages
Publication Date: 3/1/2009
Series: The New Critical Idiom
Category: Literary Studies: General