The productions of time : a study of the human imagination /

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"The Productions of Time argues that it is time to return to myth criticism to refine its genuine vision from its ideological limitations. Myth criticism flourished briefly in the 1960s but was eclipsed by literary theories that asserted difference and diversity and were skeptical about common,...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Dolzani, Michael, 1951- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Montreal ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2021]
Temas:
Mythology in literature.
Criticism.
Mythologie dans la littérature.
Critique.
literary criticism.
criticism.
LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical
Literary criticism.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Overture: Concerning mandala symbolism : the symbol with and without meaning
  • Introduction: The state of criticism at the present time
  • Part 1. First there is a mountain : the vertical axis ascending. Revelation, or imagination
  • Emanation
  • Creation
  • Scripture as creation
  • "Our great salvation from above" : traditional mythology and the point of transcendence
  • Part 2. There is a season : the cycle. Paradise
  • The fall
  • The fallen world of cyclical time : law and sacrifice
  • Tragedy
  • Comedy
  • The form of drama
  • Part 3. The eye begins to see : the horizontal axis. The affirmation of the cycle
  • The progressive vision
  • What the hammer? The forge of language
  • The ironic cycle and the clarification of vision
  • The recreation of evolution : hunting cultures
  • The recreation of evolution : gathering and planting cultures
  • The mythology of urban civilization and empire
  • The progressive vision of the Bible : the trickster God
  • The progressive vision of the Bible : letter and spirit
  • The progressive vision of the Bible : typology
  • The progressive vision in classical mythology
  • The middle ages and Renaissance : romantic and spiritual heroes
  • Shakespearean tragicomedy or romance
  • Summary and prelude : the historical Nexus of romanticism
  • In the white giant's thigh : romantic and anti-romantic
  • Prometheus Agonistes : German idealism and Marxism
  • Romantic internalization
  • The novel : the realistic horizontal
  • The historical novel and science fiction
  • The novel as epic
  • The lyric as epic
  • Part 4. You want it darker : the vertical axis descending. Decreation and the descent quest
  • Decreative realism
  • Creative non-fiction : surface and depth
  • The lyric : surface and depth
  • The decreation myth of language
  • The otherworld : traditional and dark romance
  • The sublime
  • The urban otherworld
  • The demonic : the principle of negation
  • The pluralistic afterlife
  • Nothing
  • Reversal
  • Satire and apocalypse
  • Satire, laughter, and the redemption of time.

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