Modern Myths /
Modern Myths /
edited by David Bevan.
- 1 online resource (232 pages) : illustrations.
- Literature and Cultural Studies - Book Archive pre-2000 Rodopi Perspectives on Modern Literature ; 10 .
- Literature and Cultural Studies - Book Archive pre-2000. Rodopi Perspectives on Modern Literature ; 10. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Preliminary Material / Editor: David Bevan -- Introduction / Editor: David Bevan -- Acknowledgments / Editor: David Bevan -- 1. The Search for King Arthur: John Steinbeck's Continuing Preoccupation with the Grail Legend / Michael Meyer -- 2. The Don Juan Myth: A Girardian Perspective / Judith Hepler Arias -- 3. The Museum of Natural Beauties / Jacques La Mothe -- 4. Faust in a Uniform: Klaus Mann's Mephisto and Its Cinematic Adaptation / Robert Singer -- 5. The Face in the Mirror: Literary Depictions of Joan of ARC / Rebekah Thacker -- 6. Christopher Columbus, Stage Call! The Discoverer as Theatrical Character / Guillermo Schmidhuber -- 7. The Myth of Don Quixote as Social Practice / Malcolm Read -- 8. The Modernist Contribution to the Construction of Myth / Andrew Von Hendy -- 9. Mythogenesis of the Modern Super Hero / Michael Harney.
Edited by David Bevan Series discontinued.
English
9789004652828
10.1163/9789004652828 DOI
Comparative literature.
Literature--History and criticism.
Myth in literature--History and criticism.
PN56.M94
809.915
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Preliminary Material / Editor: David Bevan -- Introduction / Editor: David Bevan -- Acknowledgments / Editor: David Bevan -- 1. The Search for King Arthur: John Steinbeck's Continuing Preoccupation with the Grail Legend / Michael Meyer -- 2. The Don Juan Myth: A Girardian Perspective / Judith Hepler Arias -- 3. The Museum of Natural Beauties / Jacques La Mothe -- 4. Faust in a Uniform: Klaus Mann's Mephisto and Its Cinematic Adaptation / Robert Singer -- 5. The Face in the Mirror: Literary Depictions of Joan of ARC / Rebekah Thacker -- 6. Christopher Columbus, Stage Call! The Discoverer as Theatrical Character / Guillermo Schmidhuber -- 7. The Myth of Don Quixote as Social Practice / Malcolm Read -- 8. The Modernist Contribution to the Construction of Myth / Andrew Von Hendy -- 9. Mythogenesis of the Modern Super Hero / Michael Harney.
Edited by David Bevan Series discontinued.
English
9789004652828
10.1163/9789004652828 DOI
Comparative literature.
Literature--History and criticism.
Myth in literature--History and criticism.
PN56.M94
809.915