Ghost Voices
Author | : Donald M. Hines |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 480 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Donald M. Hines |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 480 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : |
Author | : David Lampe |
Publisher | : White Pine Press |
Total Pages | : 430 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781877727283 |
Anthology of French and English speaking Canadian stories.
Author | : Tony Allan |
Publisher | : Time Life Medical |
Total Pages | : 152 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
This book is filled with strange stories, mystic rites, angry gods, vision quests and magic symbols at the heart of African culture.
Author | : Michael Starsheen |
Publisher | : Lulu.com |
Total Pages | : 226 |
Release | : 2006-07-07 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1430304456 |
This book tells the stories of the Greek Gods and Goddesses from their own unique points of view, allowing their archetypal energies to manifest from within the cultural unconscious of our modern world. These are not stories for children, although told in poetic form. They are intended for an mature audience, who choose to better understand where they've come from and where they are going in this modern world. Western culture is largely based on Greco-Roman archetypes, and these myths speak directly to behaviors that manifest in our modern world. This book is intended for ages 16+.
Author | : David Rockwell |
Publisher | : Roberts Rinehart |
Total Pages | : 247 |
Release | : 2003-04-21 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 1461664578 |
In this new edition of a classic, David Rockwell describes the captivating and awe-inspiring presence of the bear in Native American rituals. The bear played a central role in shamanic rights, initiation, healing and hunting ceremonies, and new year celebrations. Considered together, these traditions are another way of looking at the world, one in which the mysteries of the universe are revealed through animals.
Author | : Katharine Luomala |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 191 |
Release | : 1955 |
Genre | : Mythology, Polynesian |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Mary Huse Eastman |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 1915 |
Genre | : Fairy tales |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Tudor Balinisteanu |
Publisher | : Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Total Pages | : 330 |
Release | : 2009-10-02 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1443816205 |
This book offers an original interdisciplinary analysis of the relations between myth, identity and social reality, involving elements of narratology theory, linguistics, philosophy, anthropology and social theory, harnessed to support an argument firmly located in the area of literary criticism. This analysis yields a fairly extensive reinterpretation of the concept of myth, which is applied to the examination of the relationship between narrative and social reality as represented in texts by contemporary Scottish and Irish women writers. The main theoretical sources are Mikhail Bakhtin’s theories of heteroglossia, Jacques Derrida’s theories of citationality and Judith Butler’s theories of subjectivity. The analysis framework developed in the book uses these theories to create a new way of understanding how literary texts change readers’ worldviews by enticing them to accept alternative possibilities of cultural expression of identity and social order. The texts analysed in this book reconfigure naturalised stories that have become normative and constraining in conveying identities and visions of legitimate social orders. The book’s focus on feminine identities places it alongside feminist analyses of reconstructions of fairy tales, myths or canonical stories that establish what counts as legitimate feminine identity. Studied here for the first time together, the writers whose texts form the interest of this book continue the revisionist work begun by other women writers who engage with the male generated literary, philosophical and humanist tradition. They share a view of narratives as tools for continually negotiating our identities, social worlds and socialisation scenarios. While the high-level theoretical discourse of the first part of the book requires specialised knowledge, the second part of the book, offering close readings of the texts, is both lively and accessible and should engage the interest of the general reader and academic alike. This book is written for all those who are interested in the power words have to hold sway over our inner and outer (social) worlds.
Author | : |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 268 |
Release | : 2022-04-19 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9004458514 |
The contributors to this collection of essays on the literary use of myth in the early twentieth century and its literary and philosophical precedents from romanticism onwards draw on a range of disciplines, from anthropology, comparative literature, and literary criticism, to philosophy and religious studies. The underlying assumption is that modernist myth-making does not retreat from modernity, but projects a mode of being for the future which the past could serve to define. Modernist myth is not an attempted recovery of an archaic form of life so much as a sophisticated self-conscious equivalent. Far from seeking a return to an earlier romantic valorizing of myth, these essays show how the true interest of early twentieth-century myth-making lies in the consciousness, affirmative as well as tragic, of living in a human world which, in so far as it must embody value, can have no ultimate grounding. Although myth may initially appear to be the archaic counterterm to modernity, it is thus also the paradigm on which modernity has repeatedly reconstructed, or come to understand, its own life forms. The very term myth, by combining, in its modern usage, the rival meanings of a grounding narrative and a falsehood, encapsulates a central problem of modernity: how to live, given what we know.
Author | : Various Authors |
Publisher | : Good Press |
Total Pages | : 819 |
Release | : 2023-12-26 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Hawaiian Legends & Myths is a collection of books by William Drake Westervelt, one of Hawaii's foremost authorities on island folklore. It contains five books Westervelt wrote about Hawaiian legends, folklore and mythology. "Legends of Maui" includes numerous myths of Māui, Polynesian demi god of Polynesia and Hina who is sometimes in myths his mother, and sometimes his wife. These myths and legends originate from various island groups around the Pacific and they are pesented in a clear and thorough manner. "Legends of Old Honolulu" is collection of ancient Hawaiian folktales which also includes some information about where the Hawaiians came from and the sacred places in Honolulu. As might be expected in stories originating on a small island, many of them feature the sea, boats, sea creatures or water. "Legends of Gods and Ghost-Gods" focuses on Polynesian mythology, taking a close look at Hawaiian folktales, mythology, and the history of the polytheistic practices still in place to this day. "Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes" – The first part of this book focuses on the legends of Hawaii and its volcanoes. The second part considers the geology of the region and discusses the crack in the floor of the Pacific, Hawaiian volcanoes, volcanic activity and the changes in the Kilauea crater. It also looks at the foundation of the observatory. "Hawaiian Historical Legends" take the reader through Hawaiian history from ancient times to becoming an American state. He adds that Hawaiian people are not overly concerned with dates but that these stories are all related one to another.