Mythology
From Ancient to Post-Modern
©1992
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XIV,
222 Pages
Series:
The Plattsburgh Studies in the Humanities, Volume 1
Summary
This book is a collection of sixteen essays by scholars who participated in a Mythology Symposium at the State University of New York, College at Plattsburgh, in March 1991. The essays are presented under four subject titles: Ancient Myths in Modern Contexts (Ulysses, Don Quixote, Don Juan, Amazonian Indians), Myth and Society (French-Canadian Messianism, American Exceptionalism, German-Jewish Tolerance, and Socialism), Myth and the Human Condition (in works of Camus, Ionesco, and Beckett), and Myth, Science, and Technology (the Gaia-concept, artificial intelligence, post-nuclear Re-Creation, and the film «Back to the Future, Part II»).
Details
- Pages
- XIV, 222
- Publication Year
- 1992
- ISBN (Hardcover)
- 9780820417424
- Language
- English
- Published
- New York, Bern, Frankfurt/M., Paris, 1992. XIV, 222 pp., fig.
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