Literary Criticism and Myth

by Segal, Robert A.

• ISBN13: 9780815322580
• ISBN10: 0815322585
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1996-01-01
• Publisher: Routledge

Table of Contents

Series Introduction
Volume Introduction
Cultural Anthropology and Contemporary Literary Criticism	p. 2
Myth, Poetry and Philosophy	p. 11
The Hero and the God	p. 36
Myth as Literature	p. 47
The Meanings of "Myth" in Modern Criticism	p. 68
Myth, Poetry, and Critical Theory	p. 79
The Archetypes of Literature	p. 100
Myth, Fiction, and Displacement	p. 119
Mythology into Psychology: Deux ex Machina into God Within	p. 139
The Plague in Literature and Myth	p. 155
Myth Criticism: Limitations and Possibilities	p. 173
The Reinterpretation of the Myths	p. 183
Myth, Ritual, and Literature after Girard	p. 200
Myth, Mythology and the Novel: Towards a Reappraisal	p. 233
The Myth and the Powerhouse	p. 253
Mythology (For the Study of William Blake)	p. 268
Literature and Myth	p. 283
The History that Literature Makes	p. 307
Myth	p. 332
Myth and the Modern Novel	p. 337
Myth Criticism	p. 367
Acknowledgments	p. 371
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