10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DEMYTHOLOGISER»
Discover the use of
demythologiser in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
demythologiser and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Angela Carter: A Literary Life
Drawing on Carter's own autobiographical articles as well as her novels and short stories, this study examines her engagement with topical issues such as identity, class, politics and feminism.
It would not fit into the demythologiser's programme to say that the early
Christians, by saying that Jesus disappeared behind a cloud, expressed that
another feat, equally extraordinary, was actually performed by Jesus. (b) Let us
consider the ...
Julius Kovesi, Alan Tapper, 1998
3
Explaining Auschwitz and Hiroshima: Historians and the ...
As the title of her most famous book announced, Nazism had been no more and
no less than 'the War against the Jews 1933–45'.103 Though she praised
George Mosse, 'the preeminent explicator and demythologiser of the ideas that
shaped ...
Richard J. B. Bosworth, 2002
4
The Theatre of Howard Barker
... of the demythologiser, then one myth has been merely substituted for another –
as in The Life of Galileo. If reality itself has been appropriated by the exchange-
value system, the extent to which this might comprise a Postmodernism and the ...
5
Ideology Legitimacy and the New State: Yugoslavia, Serbia ...
Science itself cannot function as the demythologiser of grand meta-narratives
since it functions as a mythical narrative itself. Since the Enlightenment was also
responsible for equating knowledge and science with happiness, and material
with ...
6
Adorno: Disenchantment and Ethics
She is a rational demythologiser, bent upon employing reason to demonstrate
that what has been super- stitiously believed is empty, and what has been reviled
only superstition. In demythologising the taboo against extreme forms of sexual ...
7
Faith and Doubt: Religion and Secularization in Literature ...
... and therefore iifferent'.46 Arnold never wished to make but like St Augustine
and the Church believed that the great myths of classical Common to all men and
able to inspire the )agan imagination. For this reason it may as a demythologiser.
8
British Children's Fiction in the Second World War
The Daily Mail produced its Annual, whose gifted cartoonist Trog (afterwards a
hilarious visual demythologiser (and remythologiser) of politics) gave wider
scope to the activities of his (or their) daily cartoon character Flook (an animal
with a ...
Owen Dudley Edwards, 2007
9
Anagrams of Desire: Angela Carter's Writing for Radio, Film, ...
Radio enabled Carter to fulf1l her joint roles as demythologiser and entertainer.
She liked to use the medium to 'explore ideas, although for me, that is the same
thing as telling stories, since, for me, a narrative is an argument stated in f1ctional
...
10
Victorian Poetry: Poetry, Poets and Politics
It is a paradoxically demythologised belief in the revival of mythic structures,
which are self-consciously historicised as the possession of the nation's past.
Where Fox was a positivist demythologiser who hoped for a new working-class
art, the ...
