Reality and Myth in American Literature
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Peter Raymond Nehemkis
Publisher: Greenwood
Published: 1977
Total Pages: 332
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Richmond Croom Beatty
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Published: 1965
Total Pages: 312
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: S.K. Robisch
Publisher: University of Nevada Press
Published: 2009-05-28
Total Pages: 746
ISBN-13: 087417774X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe wolf is one of the most widely distributed canid species, historically ranging throughout most of the Northern Hemisphere. For millennia, it has also been one of the most pervasive images in human mythology, art, and psychology. Wolves and the Wolf Myth in American Literature examines the wolf’s importance as a figure in literature from the perspectives of both the animal’s physical reality and the ways in which writers imagine and portray it. Author S. K. Robisch examines more than two hundred texts written in North America about wolves or including them as central figures. From this foundation, he demonstrates the wolf’s role as an archetype in the collective unconscious, its importance in our national culture, and its ecological value. Robisch takes a multidisciplinary approach to his study, employing a broad range of sources: myths and legends from around the world; symbology; classic and popular literature; films; the work of scientists in a number of disciplines; human psychology; and field work conducted by himself and others. By combining the fundamentals of scientific study with close readings of wide-ranging literary texts, Robisch astutely analyzes the correlation between actual, living wolves and their representation on the page and in the human mind. He also considers the relationship between literary art and the natural world, and argues for a new approach to literary study, an ecocriticism that moves beyond anthropocentrism to examine the complicated relationship between humans and nature.
Author: James Oliver Robertson
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Published: 1980
Total Pages: 416
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Published: 1984
Total Pages: 174
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Richard T. Hughes
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2018-09-05
Total Pages: 374
ISBN-13: 0252050800
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSix myths lie at the heart of the American experience. Taken as aspirational, four of those myths remind us of our noblest ideals, challenging us to realize our nation's promise while galvanizing the sense of hope and unity we need to reach our goals. Misused, these myths allow for illusions of innocence that fly in the face of white supremacy, the primal American myth that stands at the heart of all the others.
Author: Mircea Eliade
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Published: 2020-12-23
Total Pages: 216
ISBN-13: 9780967657509
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Richmond Croom Beatty
Publisher: Nashville, Vanderbilt U. P
Published: 1964
Total Pages: 312
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Rebecca Solnit
Publisher: Haymarket Books+ORM
Published: 2019-09-03
Total Pages: 136
ISBN-13: 1642590770
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFeminist essays for the #MeToo era from “the voice of the resistance,” the international bestselling author of Men Explain Things to Me (The New York Times Magazine). Who gets to shape the narrative of our times? The current moment is a battle royale over that foundational power, one in which women, people of color, non-straight people are telling other versions, and white people and men and particularly white men are trying to hang onto the old versions and their own centrality. In Whose Story Is This? Rebecca Solnit appraises what’s emerging and why it matters and what the obstacles are. Praise for Rebecca Solnit and her essays “Rebecca Solnit is essential feminist reading.” —The New Republic “In these times of political turbulence and an increasingly rabid and scrofulous commentariat, the sanity, wisdom and clarity of Rebecca Solnit’s writing is a forceful corrective. Whose Story Is This? is a scorchingly intelligent collection about the struggle to control narratives in the internet age.” —The Guardian “Solnit’s passionate, shrewd, and hopeful critiques are a road map for positive change.” —Kirkus Reviews “Solnit’s exquisite essays move between the political and the personal, the intellectual and the earthy.” —Elle “Rebecca Solnit reasserts herself here as one of the most astute cultural critics in progressive discourse.” —Publishers Weekly “No writer has better understood the mix of fear and possibility, peril and exuberance that’s marked this new millennium.” —Bill McKibben, founder of 350.org