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The Survival of Myth - Innovation, Singularity and Alterity (Hardcover, Unabridged edition)
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The Survival of Myth - Innovation, Singularity and Alterity (Hardcover, Unabridged edition)
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What are myths and what are they for? Myths are stories that both
tell us how to live and remind us of the inescapability and pull of
the collective past. The Survival of Myth: Innovation, Singularity
and Alterity explores the continuing power of primal stories to
inhabit our thinking. An international range of contributors
examine a range of texts and figures from the Bible to Cormac
McCarthy and from Thor to the Virgin Mary to focus on the way that
ancient stories both give access to the unconscious and offer
individuals and communities personae or masks. Myths translated and
recreated become, in this sense, very public acts about very
private thoughts and feelings. The subtitle of the book,
`Innovation, Singularity and Alterity,' reflects the way in which
the history of cultures in all genres is a history of innovation,
of a search for new modes of expression which, paradoxically, often
entails recourse to myth precisely because it offers narratives of
singularity and otherness which may be readily appropriated. The
individual contributors offer testament to the continuing
significance of myth through its own constant metamorphosis, as it
both reflects and transforms the societies in which it is
(re)produced.
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