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Modern Myths / edited by David Bevan.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextLanguage: English Series: Literature and Cultural Studies - Book Archive pre-2000 | Rodopi Perspectives on Modern Literature ; 10.Publisher: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 1993Copyright date: ©1993Description: 1 online resource (232 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9789004652828
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version:: Modern Myths.DDC classification:
  • 809.915 23
LOC classification:
  • PN56.M94
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: Edited by David Bevan Series discontinued.
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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.

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