The Rise of Modern Mythology, 1680-1860Indiana University Press, 1972 - 564 páginas "... 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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... literature , in which he takes up myth in its relation to literature . His first mention of myth suggests it hardly interests him ; the his- torian of the decline of Rome has only this to say of its founding : " The flight of a band of ...
... Literature and Fine Art FROM. BEYOND his early , important part in helping found German romanticism , Au- gust Wilhelm Schlegel shared with his younger brother Friedrich a wide but central range of interests : in literature , the arts ...
... literature and finds them conforming to the same pattern . In showing that much or even all of imaginative literature depends on and repeats mythic archetypal patterns , aber thinks to belittle the mythic element in literature . But he ...
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PART ONE The Earlier Eighteenth Century | 3 |
Pierre Bayle 16471706 | 19 |
JOHN TOLAND 16701722 | 25 |
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