Modernist Mythopoeia - The Twilight of the Gods

Zusatztext Informationen zum Autor Dr Scott Freer is an independent scholar and an associate lecturer for The Open University, Vaughan College, UK, and the University of Leicester, UK. Klappentext Modernist Mythopoeia argues that the experimental modernist form of mythopoeia was directed towards expressing a range of metaphysical perspectives that fall between material secularism and dogmatic religion. The book is a timely addition to the 'post-secular' debate as well as to the 'return of religion' in modernist studies. Zusammenfassung Modernist Mythopoeia argues that the experimental modernist form of mythopoeia was directed towards expressing a range of metaphysical perspectives that fall between material secularism and dogmatic religion. The book is a timely addition to the 'post-secular' debate as well as to the 'return of religion' in modernist studies. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Modernist Mythopoeia: The Language of the In-Between and of Beyond 1. Zarathustra: Nietzsche's New Redeemer 2. 'Hieronymo's mad againe': The Waste Land as Tragic Mythopoeia 3. Kafka's Sick Ovidian Animals 4. Hilda Doolittle & D. H. Lawrence: Polytheistic & Pagan Revisionary Mythopoeia 5. 'Death is the mother of beauty': Wallace Stevens' Harmonium Bibliography Index

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Introduction: Modernist Mythopoeia: The Language of the In-Between and of Beyond 1. Zarathustra: Nietzsche's New Redeemer 2. 'Hieronymo's mad againe': The Waste Land as Tragic Mythopoeia 3. Kafka's Sick Ovidian Animals 4. Hilda Doolittle & D. H. Lawrence: Polytheistic & Pagan Revisionary Mythopoeia 5. 'Death is the mother of beauty': Wallace Stevens' Harmonium Bibliography Index

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• Authors: S. Freer, Scott Freer
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 27.02.2015
• EAN: 9781137035509
• ISBN: 978-1-137-03550-9
• No. of pages: 250
• Subjects: Fiction; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works; B, Fiction & related items, Cultural Studies, Cultural Theory, Fiction, Literature: history & criticism, Literary theory, Culture—Study and teaching, European Literature, Literature, Modern—20th century, Twentieth-Century Literature, Literature—History and criticism, Literary History, British literature, British and Irish Literature, Fiction Literature, Palgrave Literature Collection, Literature—Philosophy