Author: Michael Vannoy Adams
Publisher: Other Press
Keywords: unconscious, mythological
Number of Pages: 488
Published: 2001-08-01
List price: $30.00
ISBN-10: 1892746964
ISBN-13: 9781892746962

The unconscious is one of the most radically original discoveries ever made. The implications are vast and revolutionary. What, however, is the unconscious? Some of the greatest psychoanalysts of all time declare emphatically that the unconscious is mythological. Sigmund Freud speaks of "endopsychic myths" and psycho-mythology C.G.Jung refers to "mythopoeic imagination" and the "’myth-forming’ structural elements" of the psyche. Wilfred R. Bion asserts that the psyche extends into the "domain of myth". James Hillman contends that "the essence of psyche is myth" and that "psychol

Author: Christine C. Schnusenberg
Publisher: Paulist Press
Keywords: eucharist, theater, drama, liturgical, traditions, mythological
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 2010-01-30
List price: $44.95
ISBN-10: 0809105446
ISBN-13: 9780809105441

This unique comprehensive work explores the multiple dimensions of the theater and its ontic beginning as embedded in creation itself, concluding that theater was worship and worship was theater.

Author: Dr. Lea Stirling
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Keywords: taste, antique, gaul, classical, statuettes, collector, mythological, learned
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2005-01-26
List price: $90.00
ISBN-10: 0472114336
ISBN-13: 9780472114337

Inspired by a classical education, wealthy Romans populated the glittering interiors of their villas and homes with marble statuettes of ancestors, emperors, gods, and mythological figures. In The Learned Collector, Lea M. Stirling shows how the literary education received by all aristocrats, pagan and Christian alike, was fundamental in shaping their artistic taste while demonstrating how that taste was considered an important marker of status. Surveying collections across the empire, Stirling examines different ways that sculptural collections expressed not only the wealth but the identity o

Author: Scott McGill
Publisher: An American Philological Association Book
Keywords: american, classical, studies, antiquity, centos, recomposed, mythological, secular, virgil
Number of Pages: 260
Published: 2005-07-28
List price: $125.00
ISBN-10: 0195175646
ISBN-13: 9780195175646

The Virgilian centos anticipate the avant-garde and smash the image of a staid, sober, and centered classical world. This book examines the twelve mythological and secular Virgilian centos that survive from antiquity. The centos, in which authors take non-consecutive lines or segments of lines from the Eclogues, Georgics, and Aeneid and reconnect them to produce new poems, have received limited attention. No other book-length study exists of all the centos, which date from ca. 200 to ca. 530. The centos are literary games, and they have a playful shock value that feels very modern. Yet the tex

Author: Joseph Campbell
Publisher: New World Library
Keywords: dimension, select, essays, mythological, explorations, wild, gander, flight
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 2002-05-16
List price: $20.00
ISBN-10: 1577312104
ISBN-13: 9781577312109

In these essays, Joseph Campbell explores the origins of myth and their role in everyday life — from Grimm fairy tales to Native American legends. He explains how the symbolic content of myth is linked to universal human experience and how myths and experiences change over time. Included is his acclaimed essay “Mythogenesis,” which examines the rise and fall of a Native American legend. “Campbell has become one of the rarest of intellectuals ... a serious thinker who has been embraced by the popular culture.” — Newsweek

Author: Michael Kidd
Publisher: Pennsylvania State Univ Pr (Txt)
Keywords: state, penn, studies, romance, literatures, theater, spanish, mythological, desire, tradition, classical, contemporary, stages
Number of Pages: 266
Published: 1999-08-01
List price: $55.95
ISBN-10: 0271019123
ISBN-13: 9780271019123

Within the rich tradition of Spanish theater lies an unexplored dimension reflecting themes from classical mythology. Through close readings of selected plays from early modern and twentieth-century Spanish literature with plots or characters derived from the Greco-Roman tradition, Michael Kidd shows that the concept of desire plays a pivotal role in adapting myth to the stage in each of several historical periods.In Stages of Desire, Kidd offers a new way of looking at the theater in Spain. Reviewing the work of playwrights from Juan del Encina to Luis Riaza, he suggests that desire constitut

Authors:Northrop Frye, Jay Macpherso,
Publisher: University of Toronto Pre
Keywords: culture, frye, studies, western, framework, classical, myths, mythological, biblical
Number of Pages: 500
Published: 2004-11-06
List price: $44.95
ISBN-10: 0802086950
ISBN-13: 9780802086952

In the 1970s and 80s, Northrop Frye and Jay Macpherson co-taught a very influential course at the University of Toronto’s Victoria College on the history of Western mythology ? Frye focusing on the biblical myths; Macpherson on the classical. Biblical and Classical Myths recreates the thought behind that course, with Frye’s lectures ? unpublished until very recently ? supplemented by Macpherson’s popular 1962 textbook on classical mythology, Four Ages: The Classical Myths.Frye’s lectures on the Bible make up the first half of the book. He expounds on an array of topics