Mythological Narratives - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Mythological Narratives write by Anna Lefteratou. This book was released on 2017-12-04. Mythological Narratives available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book is about the bold, beautiful, and faithful heroines of the Greek novels and their mythical models, such as Iphigenia, Phaedra, Penelope, and Helen. The novels manipulate readerly expectations through a complex web of mythical variants and constantly negotiate their adventure and erotic plot with that of traditional myths becoming, thus, part of the imperial mythical revision to which they add the prospect of a happy ending.
Daily News, Eternal Stories
Daily News, Eternal Stories - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Daily News, Eternal Stories write by Jack Lule. This book was released on 2001-01-16. Daily News, Eternal Stories available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This compelling, often surprising book demonstrates the ways news articles of today draw from age-old tales that have chastened, challenged, entertained, and entranced people since the beginning of time. Through an insightful exploration of hundreds of New York Times articles, award-winning professor and former journalist Jack Lule reveals mythical themes in reporting on topics from terrorist hijackings to Huey Newton, from Mother Teresa to Mike Tyson. Beneath the fresh facade of current events, Lule identifies such enduring archetypes as the innocent victim, the good mother, the hero, and the trickster. In doing so, he sheds light on how media coverage shapes our thinking about many of the confounding issues of our day, including foreign policy, terrorism, race relations, and political dissent. Winner of the MEA's 2002 Lewis Mumford Award for Outstanding Scholarship in the Ecology of Technics
The Story of Myth
The Story of Myth - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Story of Myth write by Sarah Iles Johnston. This book was released on 2018-12-03. The Story of Myth available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Greek myths have long been admired as beautiful, thrilling stories but dismissed as serious objects of belief. For centuries scholars have held that Greek epics, tragedies, and the other compelling works handed down to us obscure the “real” myths that supposedly inspired them. Instead of joining in this pursuit of hidden meanings, Sarah Iles Johnston argues that the very nature of myths as stories—as gripping tales starring vivid characters—enabled them to do their most important work: to create and sustain belief in the gods and heroes who formed the basis of Greek religion. By drawing on work in narratology, sociology, and folklore studies, and by comparing Greek myths not only to the myths of other cultures but also to fairy tales, ghost stories, fantasy works, modern novels, and television series, The Story of Myth reveals the subtle yet powerful ways in which these ancient Greek tales forged enduring bonds between their characters and their audiences, created coherent story-worlds, and made it possible to believe in extraordinary gods. Johnston captures what makes Greek myths distinctively Greek, but simultaneously brings these myths into a broader conversation about how the stories told by all cultures affect our shared view of the cosmos and the creatures who inhabit it.
Exploration of Mythological Elements in Contemporary Narratives
Exploration of Mythological Elements in Contemporary Narratives - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Exploration of Mythological Elements in Contemporary Narratives write by Murat Kalelioğlu. This book was released on 2021-08-10. Exploration of Mythological Elements in Contemporary Narratives available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Mythology offers a set of cultural codes that have played an essential role in the construction of culture, social life, and identity for the entirety of human history. The transfer of mythological elements to humanity has been achieved through both oral and written narratives in literature. This volume compares the themes of mythological elements used in contemporary narratives with the motifs of classical narratives, and investigates the functions of those elements pursuant to semiotics and narratology.
Graphic Narratives and the Mythological Imagination in India
Graphic Narratives and the Mythological Imagination in India - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Graphic Narratives and the Mythological Imagination in India write by Roma Chatterji. This book was released on 2019-12-05. Graphic Narratives and the Mythological Imagination in India available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book explores graphic narratives and comics in India and demonstrates how these forms serve as sites on which myths are enacted and recast. It uses the case studies of a comics version of the Mahabharata War, a folk artist’s rendition of a comic book story, and a commercial project to re-imagine two of India’s most famous epics – the Ramayana and the Mahabharata – as science fiction and superhero tales. It discusses comic books and self-published graphic novels; bardic performance aided with painted scrolls and commercial superhero comics; myths, folklore, and science fiction; and different pictorial styles and genres of graphic narration and storytelling. It also examines the actual process of the creation of comics besides discussions with artists on the tools and location of the comics medium as well as the method and impact of translation and crossover genres in such narratives. With its clear, lucid style and rich illustrations, the book will be useful to scholars and researchers of sociology, anthropology, visual culture and media, and South Asian studies, as well as those working on art history, religion, popular culture, graphic novels, art and design, folk culture, literature, and performing arts.
