10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MYTHOGRAPHY»
Discover the use of
mythography in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
mythography and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Greek
Mythography in the Roman World
Much of this book is devoted to an analysis of the importance evidently attached to citing classical sources for mythical stories, the clearest proof that they were now a part of learned culture.
Alan Cameron Charles Anthon Professor of the Latin Language and Literature Columbia University, 2004
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Mythography: the study of myths and rituals
William Doty's popular text has been hailed as the most comprehensive work of its kind.
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Early Greek
Mythography: Volume 2: Commentary
Volume 2 is a detailed commentary on the texts of Early Greek Mythography: Volume 1, a critical edition of the twenty-nine authors of this genre from the late 6th to early 4th centuries BC. Volume 2 provides a mythological commentary of the ...
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Pynchon's
mythography: an approach to Gravity's rainbow
Hume expands the possibilities as she discloses a mythic structure that underlies Pynchon’s work and provides easier access to his world. “Myth turns chaos into cosmos,” Hume explains, describing how the profuse detail of Pynchon’s ...
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Medieval
Mythography: From the school of Chartres to the ...
"--J. Stephen Russell, Hofstra University The second volume in Jane Chance's study of the history of medieval mythography from the 5th through the 15th centuries focuses on the time period in Western Europe between the School of Chartres ...
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Persephone Rises, 1860-1927:
Mythography, Gender, and the ...
In the first comprehensive survey of the Persephone myth in English and American literature of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Margot Louis explores the rapid evolution of the goddess from decorative metaphor to the embodiment ...
Margot Kathleen Louis, 2009
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Medieval
Mythography: From Roman North Africa to the School ...
Exploring the relationship between that realm of the classical gods and the sphere of medieval mythographers, Jane Chance illuminates the efforts of medieval writers to understand human existence and the forces of nature in relation to ...
The word derives from the Greek " " (mythografia), "writing of fables," from " " (mythos), "speech, word, fact, story, narrative" + " " (graph ), "to write, to inscribe."Mythography is then the rendering of myths in the arts.
Jesse Russell, Ronald Cohn, 2012
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The Influence of Classical Mythology and Medieval ...
The invocations of Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde have a direct relationship with classical mythology and medieval mythography.
Jennifer Leigh King, 2007
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Mythography: Homer, Eschatology, Etiology, Religion and ...
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10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «MYTHOGRAPHY»
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mythography is used in the context of the following news items.
Bristol academic elected Fellow of the British Academy
His major focus in recent years has been on early historiography and mythography, editing and commenting on the fragments of the early ... «University of Bristol, Jul 15»
Following in their ancestors' footsteps
They're calling the journey an "auto-mythography," a self-made voyage of discovery of their own Mennonite roots, with some fictionalized ... «Waterloo Record, Jul 15»
Settling the Score: Friday's results
... field these days, and several more in the pipeline. I look forward to seeing these guys come through Macondo on their way into mythography. «NBCSports.com, Apr 15»
Game of Thrones and The Lord of the Rings ... the rise and rise of …
Gaiman is a student of mythography; a reader of his fiction, like a reader of The Waste Land, is offered all the pleasures of tracking down his ... «The Guardian, Apr 15»
In Short: Reviews of fiction by Christopher Lee, George Pelecanos …
... economy of Smith Henderson's writing, which unites claustrophobic characterisation with an expansive mythography of American survivalism ... «Sydney Morning Herald, Mar 15»
Public Release: 12-Mar-2015 The Holberg Prize names Marina …
"In work that is at once dazzling and accessible, she ranges across the fields of comparative literature, mythography and folklore, popular ... «EurekAlert, Mar 15»
Jimmie Robinson Explains Why He's Running on "Empty"
It was published in an anthology called 'Mythography.' When I dusted off the idea last year, I gave it a new spin and a huge twist. I figured it was ... «Comic Book Resources, Feb 15»
In memoriam: André Brink (1935-2015)
... sex across racial barriers, a foundational component of apartheid legislation, but also of the white supremacist mythography which Afrikaner ... «eNCA, Feb 15»
Review: Michelle Leber and Beth Spencer explore mythography and …
Her "mythography in verse" is divided into five sections progressively covering his life, as far as it can be reconstructed in the absence of ... «Sydney Morning Herald, Jan 15»
Lying for the Cause
For these reasons and more, either liberal mythography is not seen as lying, or it is at least more advantageous and more lucrative than the ... «National Review Online, Dec 14»
