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Literature, modernism and myth : belief and responsibility in the twentieth century /
The use of myth in Modernist literature is a misleadingly familiar theme. Joyce's appropriation of Homer's Odyssey and Eliot's of Frazer's Golden Bough are, like Lawrence's primitivism or Yeats's nationalist folklore, attempts to discover an underlying metaphysic in an...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Cambridge University Press,
1997.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1. Myth in the age of the world view
- 2. Varieties of modernist mythopoeia. W.B. Yeats: 'in dreams begin responsibilities'. James Joyce's Ulysses: Trieste
- Zurich
- Paris 1914-1922. D.H. Lawrence: 'Am I out of my mind?'
- 3. Countercases: T.S. Eliot and Ezra Pound. T.S. Eliot: Religion versus myth. Odysseus unbound: the Cantos of Ezra Pound
- 4. The Politics of modernist mythopoeia. Joseph Conrad and the 'Africa' within
- 5. The break-up of modernist mythopoeia. Novel, story and the foreign: Thomas Mann, Cervantes, and Primo Levi
- 6. Living with myth: Cervantes and the new world. Alejo Carpentier: recovering the marvellous in The Kingdom of this World. Myth and fiction in Gabriel Garcia Marquez' One Hundred Years of Solitude
- 7. Living without myth: deconstructing the old world. Believing in the allegators: Thomas Pynchon and urban legend. Ideology and confidence: flights of fancy in Angela Carter's Nights at the Circus. Conclusion: ideology, myth and criticism.