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Author
Publisher
Michael Wiese Productions
Language
English
Description
"This edition of the well-known text on the connection between mythology and storytelling contains a revised chapter on the Star Wars series, new illustrations and diagrams, and new chapters (presented in the appendices) on life force operating in stories, the mechanism of polarity in storytelling, the wisdom of the body, catharsis, and other concepts. The book is meant for all types of writers and outlines guidelines for plot and character development,...
Publisher
Phaidon Press Limited
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"The first major survey to reveal the ways in which Classical mythology has inspired art throughout the last 2,500 years. From the films of Woody Allen and the Coen Brothers to Margaret Atwood's books and Arcade Fire's songs, Classical Greek and Roman myths continue to be a source of cultural inspiration. The struggles of heroes, both triumphant and tragic, with gods, monsters, and fate, exert a particular grip on our imagination. Visual artists have...
Author
Publisher
Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Magic is not simply a matter of the occult arts, but a whole way of thinking, of dreaming the impossible. As such it has tremendous force in opening the mind to new realms of achievement: imagination precedes the fact. It used to be associated with wisdom, understanding the powers of nature, and with technical ingenuity that could let men do things they had never dreamed of before. The supreme fiction of this magical thinking is the Arabian Nights,...
Author
Publisher
ISI Books
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
With a new introduction by the author
Peter Jackson's film version of J.R.R. Tolkien's “Lord of the Rings” trilogy-and the accompanying Rings-related paraphernalia and publicity-has played a unique role in the disemmination of Tolkien's imaginative creation to the masses. Yet, for most readers and viewers, the underlying meaning of Middle-earth has remained obscure. Bradley Birzer has remedied that with this fresh study. In “J.R.R. Tolkien's...
Author
Series
Selected papers from the English Institute ; new ser., no. 1
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Pub. Date
[1977]
Language
English
Author
Language
English
Description
"In Regeneration through Violence, the first of his trilogy on the mythology of the American West, Richard Slotkin shows how the attitudes and traditions that shape American culture evolved from the social and psychological anxieties of European settlers struggling in a strange new world to claim the land and displace the Native Americans. Using the popular literature of the seventeenth, eighteenth, and early nineteenth centuries - including captivity...