| Time Refigured: Myths, Foundation Texts, and Imagined Communities Contributor(s): Prochazka, Martin (Editor), Pilny, Ondrej (Editor) |
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ISBN: 8073081024 ISBN-13: 9788073081027 Publisher: Litteraria Pragensia OUR PRICE: $16.15 Product Type: Paperback Published: January 2005 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh |
| Physical Information: 1.05" H x 5.53" W x 8.31" (1.36 lbs) 390 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Focused on the myths and mythologies of European cultural history, this volume seeks to address the present and past functions of foundation texts in the evolution of the European idea. One of the specific objectives of this volume is to reconsider, in the context of ongoing European expansion and integration, the functionalist approach of Benedict Anderson, according to whom "imagined communities . . . are to be distinguished, not by their falsity/genuineness, but by the style in which they are imagined." The common denominator of each of the essays contained in this volume is the problem of the discontinuity of time in relation to tradition, cultural and individual memory, as well as in relation to historical and literary narratives. Time becomes "the locus of its own reflexivity: it is self-temporalized. It undergoes endless reiteration within itself, and needs a semantics which sets valid accents for specific moments." (Jean Bessiere) |