| Mythology: From Ancient to Post-Modern Contributor(s): Kleist, Jürgen (Editor), Butterfield, Bruce A. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0820417424 ISBN-13: 9780820417424 Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi OUR PRICE: $68.12 Product Type: Hardcover Published: September 1992 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Popular Culture - Literary Criticism | American - General - Literary Criticism | European - French |
| Dewey: 306.4 |
| LCCN: 91044219 |
| Lexile Measure: 1360 |
| Series: Plattsburgh Studies in the Humanities |
| Physical Information: 219 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - French |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This book is a collection of sixteen essays by scholars who participated in a Mythology Symposium at the State University of New York, College at Plattsburgh, in March 1991. The essays are presented under four subject titles: "Ancient Myths in Modern Contexts" (Ulysses, Don Quixote, Don Juan, Amazonian Indians), "Myth and Society" (French-Canadian Messianism, American Exceptionalism, German-Jewish Tolerance, and Socialism), "Myth and the Human Condition" (in works of Camus, Ionesco, and Beckett), and "Myth, Science, and Technology" (the Gaia-concept, artificial intelligence, post-nuclear Re-Creation, and the film -Back to the Future, Part II-)." |