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This book provides an overview of the hero journey theme in
literature, from antiquity to the present, with a focus on the
imagery of the rites of passage in human life (initiation at
adolescence, mid-life, and death). This is the only book to focus
on the major works of the literary tradition, detailing discussions
of the hero journey in major literary texts. Included are chapters
on the literature of Antiquity (Sumerian, Egyptian, Biblical,
Greek, and Roman), the Middle Ages (with emphasis on the Arthurian
Romance), the Renaissance to the Enlightenment (Shakespeare,
Milton, Marvell, Pope, Fielding, the Arabian Nights, and Alchemical
Illustration), Romanticism and Naturalism (Coleridge, Selected
Grimm's Tales, Bront%, Bierce, Whitman, Twain, Hawthorne, E.T.A.
Hoffman, Rabindranath Tagore), and Modernism to Contemporary
(Joyce, Gilman, Alifa Rifaat, Bellow, Lessing, Pynchon, Eudora
Welty).
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Muddle Maze (Paperback)
Evans Lansing Smith
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These poems follow Ezra Pound's mandate to "Make It new" by
offering adaptations of haiku stanzas, in lyric and narrative
sequences, revolving around the eternal themes of love, death, and
nature. Evans Lansing Smith is Chair and Core Faculty of the
Mythological Studies Program at the Pacifica Graduate Institute, in
Santa Barbara, CA. He is the author of nine books and numerous
articles on comparative literature and mythology. In the 1970s, he
traveled with the late Joseph Campbell on tours of Northern France,
Egypt, and Kenya. He has taught at colleges and universities in
Switzerland, Maryland, Texas, and California, where he lives with
his beloved partner, Cheryle Van Scoy. He is currently preparing a
series of novels, and a second book of poems, for publication.
One of the unique voices in our century, James Merrill was known
for his mastery of prosody; his ability to write books that were
not just collected poems but unified works in which each individual
poem contributed to the whole; and his astonishing evolution from
the formalist lyric tradition that influenced his early work to the
spiritual epics of his later career. Merrill's accomplishments were
recognized with a Pulitzer Prize in 1977 for "Divine Comedies "and
a National Book Critics Circle Award in 1983 for "The Changing
Light at Sandover."
In this meticulously researched, carefully argued work, Evans
Lansing Smith argues that the nekyia, the circular Homeric
narrative describing the descent into the underworld and
reemergence in the same or similar place, confers shape and
significance upon the entirety of James Merrill's poetry. Smith
illustrates how pervasive this myth is in Merrill's work - not just
in "The Changing Light at Sandover," where it naturally serves as
the central premise of the entire trilogy, but in all of the poet's
books, before and after that central text.
By focusing on the details of versification and prosody, Smith
demonstrates the ingenious fusion of form and content that
distinguishes Merrill as a poet. Moving beyond purely literary
interpretations of the poetry, Smith illuminates the numerous
allusions to music, art, theology, philosophy, religion, and
mythology found throughout Merrill's work.
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