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Mythical Intentions in Modern Literature
By (Author) Eric Gould
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
30th May 2017
United States
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Paperback
290
Width 152mm, Height 235mm
397g
Eric Gould revises some current assumptions in literary myth criticism, especially Jungian notions of the archetype and myth's immanence in literature that have dominated literary studies for so long. Working from structuralist theories of language, myth, and psyche, he defines myth as part of the symbolic order of language which grows out of the d