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Toute société humaine aspire à trouver des ancrages dans la tradition et souvent elle se prévaut de ses origines pour aborder la modernité. Cette quête des origines devient dès lors synonyme de redécouverte d'un lien à la nature. Mythes et Croyances évoluent entre deux dimensions de l'existence qui mettent en oeuvre les ressorts d'une Poétique, dont participe par exemple la métaphore de « Tinere(...)e f(...)r(...) b(...)tr(...)ne(...)e (...)i via(...) f(...)r(...) de moarte » [Jeunesse sans vieillesse et vie sans mort]. À cet égard, l'Homme est confronté à soi même et à l'Univers dans un rapport discursif, qui l'amène à sonder les assises du langage et notamment les sources du lyrisme, les diathèses narratives, la temporalité. Ainsi, il nous semble opportun de revenir sur la texture et la typologie des mythes et des croyances, dans l'esprit d'une recherche interdisciplinaire qui n'ignore pas les questionnements épistémologiques.
Myth --- Poetics --- Mythe --- Literature --- Philosophy
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First published in English in 1954, this founding work of the history of religions secured the North American reputation of the Romanian émigré-scholar Mircea Eliade. Making reference to an astonishing number of cultures and drawing on scholarship published in no fewer than half a dozen European languages, The Myth of the Eternal Return illuminates the religious beliefs and rituals of a wide variety of archaic religious cultures. While acknowledging that a return to their practices is impossible, Eliade passionately insists on the value of understanding their views to enrich the contemporary imagination of what it is to be human. This book includes an introduction from Jonathan Z. Smith that provides essential context and encourages readers to engage in an informed way with this classic text.
Cosmology. --- Religion and science. --- Myth.
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Das Interesse am Mythos ist aus der europäischen Kultur- und Literaturgeschichte nicht wegzudenken. Es hat seinen Niederschlag in einer beinahe unüberschaubaren Vielzahl wissenschaftlicher Mythostheorien sowie in einer vielgestaltigen literarischen und künstlerischen Mythenrezeption gefunden. Dass dieses Interesse dabei nicht zuletzt dem Mythos als Zeugnis des Fremden gilt, ist die zentrale These der Studie. Mit dem neu eingeführten Begriff der mythologischen Alterität soll in diesem Sinne eine - bislang in ihrer Bedeutung sowie in ihrer Produktivität unterschätzte - Konstante im neuzeitlichen Mythosverständnis bzw. eine Gemeinsamkeit verschiedener Mythosauffassungen in den Fokus gerückt werden. So wird zum einen gezeigt, dass zahlreiche Theorien des Mythos (von Giambattista Vico und David Hume bis zu René Girard und Hans Blumenberg) ihre Gegenstände als Zeugnisse des kulturell oder auch des radikal Fremden beschreiben und interpretieren. Zum anderen wird anhand verschiedenartiger Beispiele aus der englischen Literatur vom 19. bis zum frühen 21. Jahrhundert erläutert, inwiefern auch in der literarischen Mythenrezeption das Fremde bzw. Differenzen von Eigenem und Fremdem thematisch und formal virulent werden.
Myth in literature. --- Outsiders in literature. --- Strangers in literature. --- English literature --- British literature --- Inklings (Group of writers) --- Nonsense Club (Group of writers) --- Order of the Fancy (Group of writers) --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Myth. --- myth in literature. --- reception of myth.
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The question of life, Michael Naas argues, though rarely foregrounded by Plato, runs through and structures his thought. By characterizing being in terms of life, Plato in many of his later dialogues, including the Statesman, begins to discover—or, better, to invent—a notion of true or real life that would be opposed to all merely biological or animal life, a form of life that would be more valuable than everything we call life and every life that can actually be lived.This emphasis on life in the Platonic dialogues illuminates the structural relationship between many of Plato’s most time-honored distinctions, such as being and becoming, soul and body. At the same time, it helps to explain the enormous power and authority that Plato’s thought has exercised, for good or ill, over our entire philosophical and religious tradition.Lucid yet sophisticated, Naas’s account offers a fundamental rereading of what the concept of life entails, one that inflects a range of contemporary conversations, from biopolitics, to the new materialisms, to the place of the human within the living world.
Life. --- Plato. --- Bare life. --- Biopower. --- Jacques Derrida. --- Myth. --- Ontology. --- Statesmanship.
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Myth in the Old Testament. --- Bible. --- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Thematology --- French literature --- Myth in literature --- Literary Theory & Criticism --- littérature
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In spite of the growing amount of important new work being carried out on uses of myth in particular ancient contexts, their appeal and reception beyond the framework of one culture have rarely been the primary object of enquiry in contemporary debate. Highlighting the fact that ancient societies were linked by their shared use of mythological narratives, Wandering Myths aims to advance our understanding of the mechanisms by which such tales were disseminated cross-culturally and to investigate how they gained local resonances. In order to assess both wider geographic circulations and to explore specific local features and interpretations, a regional approach is adopted, with a particular focus on Anatolia, the Near East and Italy. Contributions are drawn from a range of disciplines, and cross a wide chronological span, but all are interlinked by their engagement with questions focusing on the factors that guided the processes of reception and steered the facets of local interpretation. The Preface and Epilogue evaluate the material in a synoptic way and frame the challenging questions and views expressed in the Introduction.
Mythology, Greek. --- Cross-cultural approach. --- adaptation of myth. --- mechanisms of dissemination. --- transformation of heroes.
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"British literature often refers to pagan and classical themes through richly detailed landscapes that suggest more than a mere backdrop of physical features. The author analyzes the evocative language and aesthetics of landscapes in literature, film, television and music, and how "psycho-geography" is used to explore the influence of the past on the present"--
Popular culture --- Myth in art. --- Paganism in art. --- National characteristics, British, in art. --- Geographical perception. --- History
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