The Last 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 Last Myth write by Matthew Barrett Gross. This book was released on 2012-03-06. The Last Myth available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. During the first dozen years of the twenty-first century, apocalyptic anticipation in America has leapt from the cultish to the mainstream. Today, nearly 60 percent of Americans believe that the events foretold in the book of Revelation will come true. But many secular readers also seem hungry for catastrophe and have propelled books about peak oil, global warming, and the end of civilization into bestsellers. How did we come to live in a culture obsessed by the belief that the end is near? The Last Myth explains why apocalyptic beliefs are surging within the American mainstream today. Demonstrating that our expectation of the end of the world is a surprisingly recent development in human thought, the book reveals the profound influence of apocalyptic thinking on America’s past, present, and future.
The Last of the Race
The Last of the Race - 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 Last of the Race write by Fiona J. Stafford. This book was released on 1994. The Last of the Race available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The perennial fascination with the end of the world has given rise to many "last men," from the ancient myths of Noah and Deucalion to contemporary stories of nuclear holocaust. This is an innovative and wide-ranging study of the myth of the "Last of the Race" as it develops in a range of literary and non-literary texts from the late seventeenth to late nineteenth centuries. Examinations of works by Milton, Burnet, Defoe, Ossian, Cowper, Wordsworth, Byron, Mary Shelley, Fenimore Cooper, Bulwer-Lytton, and Darwin combine to form an important account of the traces of this most resonant of cultural preoccupations, providing a distinguished contribution to cultural history as well as to literary studies.
Myth
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 Myth write by Robert Ellwood. This book was released on 2008-01-01. Myth available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An accessible introduction to the complex topic of Myth. Ellwood examines theories, meanings and interpretations, all of which are structured around a typical programme of study.
New World Myth
New World 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 New World Myth write by Marie Vautier. This book was released on 1998-01-06. New World Myth available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. There is an emphasis on de-constructing, de-centring, de-stabilizing, and especially de-mythologizing in the study that illustrates New World myth narrators questioning the past in the present and carrying out their original investigations of myth, place, and identity. Underlining the fact that political realities are encoded in the language and narrative of the works, Vautier argues that the reworkings of literary, religious, and historical myths and political ideologies in these novels are grounded in their shared situation of being in and of the New World.
Uses of Comparative Mythology (RLE Myth)
Uses of Comparative Mythology (RLE 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 Uses of Comparative Mythology (RLE Myth) write by Kenneth L. Golden. This book was released on 2015-03-05. Uses of Comparative Mythology (RLE Myth) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This collection, first published in 1992, offers critical-interpretive essays on various aspects of the work of Joseph Campbell (1904-1987), one of a very few international experts on myth. Joseph Campbell examines myths and mythologies from a comparative point of view, and he stresses those similarities among myths the world over as they suggest an existing, transcendent unity of all humankind. His interpretations foster an openness, even a generous appreciation of, all myths; and he attempts to generate a broad, sympathetic understanding of the role of these ‘stories’ in human history, in our present-day lives, and in the possibilities of our future.
