The Last Myth
The Last Myth

Author: Matthew Barrett Gross

Publisher: Prometheus Books

Published: 2012-03-06

Total Pages: 220

ISBN-13: 1616145749

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During the first dozen years of the twenty-first century, apocalyptic anticipation in America has leapt from the cultish to the mainstream. Today, nearly 60 percent of Americans believe that the events foretold in the book of Revelation will come true. But many secular readers also seem hungry for catastrophe and have propelled books about peak oil, global warming, and the end of civilization into bestsellers. How did we come to live in a culture obsessed by the belief that the end is near? The Last Myth explains why apocalyptic beliefs are surging within the American mainstream today. Demonstrating that our expectation of the end of the world is a surprisingly recent development in human thought, the book reveals the profound influence of apocalyptic thinking on America’s past, present, and future.

Myth
Myth

Author: Robert Ellwood

Publisher: A&C Black

Published: 2008-01-01

Total Pages: 183

ISBN-13: 1847062342

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An accessible introduction to the complex topic of Myth. Ellwood examines theories, meanings and interpretations, all of which are structured around a typical programme of study.

Myth
Myth

Author: Laurence Coupe

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2009-01-08

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 1134107773

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Offering a concise and illuminating introduction to the most important areas of myth, this fully updated and revised second edition contains new chapters and student-friendly features. Essential reading for students of any level wanting an introduction to the area.

Greek Myth
Greek Myth

Author: Lowell Edmunds

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2021-04-06

Total Pages: 242

ISBN-13: 3110696207

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This volume provides a guide to research in the field of Greek Myth, introducing the main questions, theories and methods related to the study of Greek Myth today. The author points out, with critical reappraisal, the key themes and ideas in recent scholarship and makes suggestions for future lines of study. Aimed at students and scholars in Classics, it will also be of interest to larger audiences in the Humanities.

The Myth of Homeland Security
The Myth of Homeland Security

Author: Marcus Ranum

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2003-11-24

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13: 0764555790

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"As I write this, I'm sitting in a restaurant in a major U.S. airport, eating my breakfast with a plastic knife and fork. I worked up quite an appetite getting here two hours early and shuffling in the block-long lines until I got to the security checkpoint where I could take off my shoes, remove my belt, and put my carry-on luggage through the screening system . "What's going on? It's homeland security. Welcome to the new age of knee-jerk security at any price. Well, I've paid, and you've paid, and we'll all keep paying-but is it going to help? Have we embarked on a massive multibillion-dollar boondoggle that's going to do nothing more than make us feel more secure? Are we paying nosebleed prices for "feel-good" measures? . "This book was painful to write. By nature, I am a problem solver. Professionally I have made my career out of solving complex problems efficiently by trying to find the right place to push hard and make a difference. Researching the Department of Homeland Security, the FBI, CIA, INS, the PATRIOT Act, and so forth, one falls into a rabbit's hole of interdependent lameness and dysfunction. I came face to face with the realization that there are gigantic bureaucracies that exist primarily for the sole purpose of prolonging their existence, that the very structure of bureaucracy rewards inefficiency and encourages territorialism and turf warfare."

I Am Legend as American Myth
I Am Legend as American Myth

Author: Amy J. Ransom

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2018-07-05

Total Pages: 232

ISBN-13: 1476668337

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Richard Matheson's 1954 novel I Am Legend has spawned a series of iconic horror and science fiction films, including The Last Man on Earth (1964), The Omega Man (1971) and I Am Legend (2007). The compelling narrative of the last man on earth, struggling to survive a pandemic that has transformed the rest of humanity into monsters, has become an American myth. While the core story remains intact, filmmakers have transformed the details over time, reflecting changing attitudes about race and masculinity. This reexamination of Matheson's novel situates the tale of one man's conflicted attitude about killing racialized "others" within its original post-World War II context, engaging the question of post-traumatic stress disorder. The author analyzes the several film adaptations, with a focus on the casting and interpretations of protagonist Robert Neville.

Psychology and Myth
Psychology and Myth

Author: Robert Alan Segal

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 410

ISBN-13: 9780815322559

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First Published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

New World Myth
New World Myth

Author: Marie Vautier

Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

Published: 1998-01-06

Total Pages: 364

ISBN-13: 0773566880

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There is an emphasis on de-constructing, de-centring, de-stabilizing, and especially de-mythologizing in the study that illustrates New World myth narrators questioning the past in the present and carrying out their original investigations of myth, place, and identity. Underlining the fact that political realities are encoded in the language and narrative of the works, Vautier argues that the reworkings of literary, religious, and historical myths and political ideologies in these novels are grounded in their shared situation of being in and of the New World.

Uses of Comparative Mythology (RLE Myth)
Uses of Comparative Mythology (RLE Myth)

Author: Kenneth L. Golden

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2015-03-05

Total Pages: 271

ISBN-13: 1317550854

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This collection, first published in 1992, offers critical-interpretive essays on various aspects of the work of Joseph Campbell (1904-1987), one of a very few international experts on myth. Joseph Campbell examines myths and mythologies from a comparative point of view, and he stresses those similarities among myths the world over as they suggest an existing, transcendent unity of all humankind. His interpretations foster an openness, even a generous appreciation of, all myths; and he attempts to generate a broad, sympathetic understanding of the role of these ‘stories’ in human history, in our present-day lives, and in the possibilities of our future.