The Rise of Modern Mythology, 1680-1860 - Brossura

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ISBN 10: 0253201888 ISBN 13: 9780253201881

Casa editrice: Indiana Univ Pr, 2000

Riassunto

... peerless... " —The Key Reporter

... this book is a first. It will be a standard... Comprehensiveness as well as the clarity of the headnotes should make it endure." —Choice

... so good as it stands... one should simply be happy to have it." —The Journal of the History of Ideas

... an original, compendious, and highly useful contribution to historical and mythographical scholarship." —The American Scholar

The Rise of Modern Mythology is a voice of reason in the contemporary maelstrom of international religious violence and American pluralism; more than any book I know, it exposes the roots of the Western appropriation of non-Western mythologies, from Lawrence of Arabia and Omar Khayyam to Tibetan Buddhism in Hollywood and Krishna Consciousness in airports. This is a book that we need now." —Wendy Doniger, Mircea Eliade Distinguished Service Professor of the History of Religions, The University of Chicago

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L'autore:

Burton Feldman, Professor of English Emeritus at the University of Denver, has alsotaught at the University of Chicago and Hebrew University. He has contributed articles on18th-19th century mythology to the Dictionary of
the History of Ideas and TheEncyclopedia of Religion, and (with Robert D. Richardson) has edited and introduced Myth andRomanticism, a 50-volume set of sources for English Romantic writers.

RobertD. Richardson, Jr. is an independent scholar and literary biographer who currently divides his timebetween Middletown, Connecticut, Key West, and Cape Cod. He has taught at Harvard, the University ofDenver, the
University of Colorado, Queens College and the Graduate Center of CUNY, SichuanUniversity in China, Yale, and Wesleyan. He is author of Literature and Film, Myth and Literature inthe American Renaissance, Henry Thoreau: A Life of the Mind, and Emerson: The Mind on Fire. Heedited (with Allen Mandelbaum) Three Centuries of American Poetry and is working on a biography ofWilliam James.

Dalla quarta di copertina:

In this critical history of the rise and development of interest in myth from 1680 to 1860, sixty selections from authors of the period show how most of the current theories about myth were ""anticipated, indeed proposed, debated, analyzed, and elaborated"" during these years. The authors provide critical introductions with bibliographies for the individual selections and a general bibliography of works on myth published from 1680 to 1860.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Indiana Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0253201888
• ISBN 13: 9780253201881
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 564
• Redattore: Feldman Burton, Richardson Robert D.