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Mythology in the modern novel : a study of prefigurative techniques / by John J. White

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White, John J., 1940-2015
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Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, 1971.
Copyright Date
©1971
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1 online resource (278 pages).
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PREFACE; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; 1. MYTH AND THE MODERN NOVEL; The Return to Myth; Distinguishing Myths from Mythological Motifs; Myths as Literary Prefigurations; Historical Background; Non-Aesthetic Theories; Myths in Drama and Myths in Fiction; Towards a Methodology: Practical Considerations; 2. TERMS AND DISTINCTIONS ; Myth Criticism and the Meanings of Myth -- The Archetype; Illustrations; Categories of Mythological Fiction; Mythological Allegorizations and Levels of Generality; Further Distinctions: the Number of Archetypes, Myths and Legends, Popular and Literary Myths., 3. APPROACHES TO THE MYTHOLOGICAL NOVEL A Priori Judgments; Diachronic Accounts of Mythology in Literature; Motivations for a Motif; Myth, the Collective Unconscious and the Idea of Reincarnation; Mythical Imitation; Mythology as a Structural Principle; 4. THE UNILINEAR PATTERN OF DEVELOPMENT ; Establishing a Prefiguration; Motivating a Prefiguration through the Plot; Historical Symbolism: Thomas Mann's Doktor Faustus; The Use of a Real Artist: Hermann Broch's Der Tod des Vergil; Myth plus Amateur Psychology: Alberto Moravia's Il disprezzo., and The Technique of Juxtaposition: John Bowen's A World Elsewhere, Hans Erich Nossack's Interview mit dem Tode, Ann Quin's Passages5. DISTORTED MOTIF-STRUCTURES; Types of Patterning; Fragmentation: Hermann Broch's Die Schuldlosen; Simultaneous Condensation: Michel Butor's L'Emploi du Temps; Serial Condensation: Hans Erich Nossack's Nekyia; Combined Patterns: Macdonald Harris's Trepleff; SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX.
Summary
J.J. White reexamines the use of myth in fiction in order to bring a new terminological precision into the field. While concentrating on the German novel (Mann, Broch, and Nossack), he discusses the work of Alberto Moravia, John Bowen, Michel Butor, and Macdonald Harris as well, in order to show the modern predilection for myth in whatever national literature. Throughout his discussion, Mr. White delineates carefully his specific subject: the novel in which mythological motifs are used to prefigure events and character-Joyce's Ulysses is, of course, the archetypal novel in this tradition. S.
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ISBN
9781400871780 (electronic bk.)
1400871786 (electronic bk.)
9780691620152
9780691062105
0691620156
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references.
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