| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 260 pages) |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-256) and index. |
| Contents |
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. Politics of modernist mythopoeia. Joseph Conrad and the 'Africa' within -- 5. 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Literature, Modern -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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Literature, Modern. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Subject |
Myth in literature.
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Myth in literature. |
| Chronological Term |
1900 - 1999 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Bell, Michael, 1941- Literature, modernism and myth. New York : Cambridge University Press, 1997 0521580161 (DLC) 96014205 (OCoLC)34515636 |
| ISBN |
0585000522 (electronic book) |
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9780585000527 (electronic book) |
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0521580161 |
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