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Record Nr.

UNINA9910797740003321

Titolo

Myths in crisis : the crisis of myth / / edited by José Manuel Losada and Antonella Lipscomb

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Newcastle upon Tyne, England : , : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

1-4438-8202-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (471 p.)

Disciplina

291.130902

Soggetti

Mythology - History - 20th century

Mythology - History - 21st century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Sommario/riassunto

This trilingual volume examines the extent to which myths are affected by the crises of the 20th and 21st centuries. It brings together four theoretical studies which analyse both the crisis of structure - implying the distortion or disappearance of myth - and the crisis of concepts and terminology that currently threaten the study of mythology.The largest section of the volume focuses on the crises that have affected ancient, medieval and modern literary myths from a global perspective, taking into account psychology, ethics, politics and contemporary meta-literature. The final section examin