Author : Carol G. Thomas
Publisher :
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 20,11 MB
Release : 1993
Category : History
ISBN :
Myth Becomes History
Carol G. Thomas
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How Myth Became History
John Emory Dean
Author : John Emory Dean
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 30,60 MB
Release : 2016-03-17
Category : History
ISBN : 0816532427
"The book explores how border subjects have been created and disputed in cultural narratives of the Texas-Mexico border, comparing and analyzing Mexican, Mexican American, and Anglo literary representations of the border"--Provided by publisher.
A Short History of Myth (Myths series)
Karen Armstrong
Author : Karen Armstrong
Publisher : Vintage Canada
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 10,54 MB
Release : 2010-10-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0307367290
What are myths? How have they evolved? And why do we still so desperately need them? A history of myth is a history of humanity, Karen Armstrong argues in this insightful and eloquent book: our stories and beliefs, our curiosity and attempts to understand the world, link us to our ancestors and each other. This is a brilliant and thought-provoking introduction to myth in the broadest sense–from Palaeolithic times to the “Great Western Transformation” of the last 500 years–and why we dismiss it only at our peril.
Mythistory
Joseph Mali
Author : Joseph Mali
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 46,98 MB
Release : 2003-05
Category : History
ISBN : 0226502627
Ever since Herodotus declared in Histories that to preserve the memories of the great achievements of the Greeks and other nations he would count on their own stories, historians have debated whether and how they should deal with myth. Most have sided with Thucydides, who denounced myth as "unscientific" and banished it from historiography. In Mythistory, Joseph Mali revives this oldest controversy in historiography. Contesting the conventional opposition between myth and history, Mali advocates instead for a historiography that reconciles the two and recognizes the crucial role that myth plays in the construction of personal and communal identities. The task of historiography, he argues, is to illuminate, not eliminate, these fictions by showing how they have passed into and shaped historical reality. Drawing on the works of modern theorists and artists of myth such as Nietzsche and Wittgenstein, Joyce and Eliot, Mali redefines modern historiography and relates it to the older notion and tradition of "mythistory." Tracing the origins and transformations of this historiographical tradition from the ancient world to the modern, Mali shows how Livy and Machiavelli sought to recover true history from uncertain myth-and how Vico and Michelet then reversed this pattern of inquiry, seeking instead to recover a deeper and truer myth from uncertain history. In the heart of Mythistory, Mali turns his attention to four thinkers who rediscovered myth in and for modern cultural history: Jacob Burckhardt, Aby Warburg, Ernst Kantorowicz, and Walter Benjamin. His elaboration of the different biographical and historiographical routes by which all four sought to account for the persistence and significance of myth in Western civilization opens up new perspectives for an alternative intellectual history of modernity-one that may better explain the proliferation of mythic imageries of redemption in our secular, all too secular, times.
Between History and Myth
Bruce Lincoln
Author : Bruce Lincoln
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 35,58 MB
Release : 2014-09
Category : History
ISBN : 022614092X
Medieval accounts of how Norway was unified by its first king provide a lively, revealing, and wonderfully entertaining example of this process. Taking the story of how Harald Fairhair unified Norway in the ninth century as its central example, Bruce Lincoln illuminates the way a state's foundation story blurs the distinction between history and myth and how variant tellings of origin stories provide opportunities for dissidence and subversion as subtle - or not so subtle - modifications are introduced through details of character, incident, and plot structure.
How the Gospels Became History
M. David Litwa
Author : M. David Litwa
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 21,7 MB
Release : 2019-08-06
Category : Bible
ISBN : 0300242638
A compelling comparison of the gospels and Greco-Roman mythology which shows that the gospels were not perceived as myths, but as historical records Did the early Christians believe their myths? Like most ancient--and modern--people, early Christians made efforts to present their myths in the most believable ways. In this eye-opening work, M. David Litwa explores how and why what later became the four canonical gospels take on a historical cast that remains vitally important for many Christians today. Offering an in-depth comparison with other Greco-Roman stories that have been shaped to seem like history, Litwa shows how the evangelists responded to the pressures of Greco-Roman literary culture by using well-known historiographical tropes such as the mention of famous rulers and kings, geographical notices, the introduction of eyewitnesses, vivid presentation, alternative reports, and so on. In this way, the evangelists deliberately shaped myths about Jesus into historical discourse to maximize their believability for ancient audiences.
Myth, Truth, and Narrative in Herodotus
, Emily Baragwanath
Author : , Emily Baragwanath
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 31,67 MB
Release : 2012-09-06
Category : History
ISBN : 0199693978
This volume brings together 13 original articles which review, re-establish, and rehabilitate the origins, forms, and functions of the mythological elements that are found in the narratives of Herodotus' Histories.
Myth and History: Close Encounters
Menelaos Christopoulos
Author : Menelaos Christopoulos
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 40,75 MB
Release : 2022-05-23
Category : History
ISBN : 3110780119
The fluidity of myth and history in antiquity and the ensuing rapidity with which these notions infiltrated and cross-fertilized one another has repeatedly attracted the scholarly interest. The understanding of myth as a phenomenon imbued with social and historical nuances allows for more than one methodological approaches. Within the wider context of interdisciplinary exchange of ideas, the present volume returns to origins, as it traces and registers the association and interaction between myth and history in various literary genres in Greek and Roman antiquity (i.e. an era when the scientific definitions of and distinctions between myth and history had not yet been perceived as such, let alone fully shaped and implemented), providing original ideas, new interpretations and (re)evaluations of key texts and less well-known passages, close readings, and catholic overviews. The twenty-four chapters of this volume expand from Greek epos to lyric poetry, historiography, dramatic poetry and even beyond, to genres of Roman era and late antiquity. It is the editors’ hope that this volume will appeal to students and academic researchers in the areas of classics, social and political history, archaeology, and even social anthropology.
Myth of Universal Human Rights
David N. Stamos
Author : David N. Stamos
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 17,68 MB
Release : 2015-11-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 131725578X
In this groundbreaking and provocative new book, philosopher of science David N. Stamos challenges the current conceptions of human rights, and argues that the existence of universal human rights is a modern myth. Using an evolutionary analysis to support his claims, Stamos traces the origin of the myth from the English Levellers of 1640s London to our modern day. Theoretical defenses of the belief in human rights are critically examined, including defenses of nonconsensus concepts. In the final chapter Stamos develops a method of naturalized normative ethics, which he then applies to topics routinely dealt with in terms of human rights. In all of this Stamos hopes to show that there is a better way of dealing with matters of ethics and justice, a way that involves applying the whole of our evolved moral being, rather than only parts of it, and that is fiction-free.
Mythologies
Roland Barthes
Author : Roland Barthes
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 23,57 MB
Release : 2013-03-12
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0809071940
"This new edition of MYTHOLOGIES is the first complete, authoritative English version of the French classic, Roland Barthes's most emblematic work"--