Myth and the Making of Modernity: The Problem of Grounding in Early Twentieth-century LiteratureMichael Bell, Peter Poellner Rodopi, 1998 - 260 pagina's 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. |
Vanuit het boek
Resultaten 6-10 van 26
Pagina 18
... unity , but the very moment of transition , the interregnum as an intermittent phase which is , paradoxically , extended . Since the golden age is only ever on the verge of recurring ( its actual recurrence would be unrepresentable or ...
... unity , but the very moment of transition , the interregnum as an intermittent phase which is , paradoxically , extended . Since the golden age is only ever on the verge of recurring ( its actual recurrence would be unrepresentable or ...
Pagina 19
... unity and differentiation . For Hufeland . for instance , the relationship between iron and magnetism captured the principle of what he called a " differentiation of unity in opposition " , a principle which for him formalized the ...
... unity and differentiation . For Hufeland . for instance , the relationship between iron and magnetism captured the principle of what he called a " differentiation of unity in opposition " , a principle which for him formalized the ...
Pagina 20
... unity of the distinct , the marriage of Eros and Freya in the astral world . The circularity of the oroborous , the snake biting into his own tail , can come to symbolize , as Heinz von Foerster has shown , the recursive process in ...
... unity of the distinct , the marriage of Eros and Freya in the astral world . The circularity of the oroborous , the snake biting into his own tail , can come to symbolize , as Heinz von Foerster has shown , the recursive process in ...
Pagina 22
... unity at the heart of myth ; myth as a form arises whenever the world is created for man out of this relationship between question and answer . The world discloses itself in such a way that the posed question solves itself in an answer ...
... unity at the heart of myth ; myth as a form arises whenever the world is created for man out of this relationship between question and answer . The world discloses itself in such a way that the posed question solves itself in an answer ...
Pagina 25
... unity of the Gesamtkunstwerk exhibited in his " composite art " , which seeks to integrate text , design and decoration in a complex , contrapuntal mode . But it is not only his emergence in the late Victorian and modern periods that ...
... unity of the Gesamtkunstwerk exhibited in his " composite art " , which seeks to integrate text , design and decoration in a complex , contrapuntal mode . But it is not only his emergence in the late Victorian and modern periods that ...
Inhoudsopgave
25 | |
Myth Art and Illusion in Nietzsche | 61 |
Myth Science Technology | 81 |
Reactionary Modernism and SelfConscious Myth | 99 |
Rudolf | 115 |
Myth as a Form of Life | 125 |
Myth as Fiction | 139 |
The Lesson of Anthropology in T S Eliot | 153 |
Grounding or Overcoming the Subject? | 167 |
Modernist Poetry and | 181 |
Memory Culture and the Subject | 197 |
Myth Modernity and the Vocalic Uncanny | 213 |
Notes on Contributors | 237 |
Index | 257 |
Overige edities - Alles bekijken
Myth and the Making of Modernity: The Problem of Grounding in Early ... Michael Bell,Peter Poellner Geen voorbeeld beschikbaar - 1998 |
Myth and the Making of Modernity: The Problem of Grounding in Early ... Michael Bell,Peter Poellner Geen voorbeeld beschikbaar - 1998 |
Veelvoorkomende woorden en zinsdelen
aesthetic allegory ancient artistic Beckett's becomes belief black milk Blake Bultmann Cantos Celan's century Christian concept consciousness cosmic cosmos create culture D. H. Lawrence Eliade Eliot Enlightenment essay existence expression Ezra Pound Fantasia Freud Friedrich Friedrich Schlegel function Geburt der Tragödie Gnosticism gramophone Heiner Müller Herder Hereafter human idea ideal Jonas Jünger language Lawrence's literary literature logic London meaning metaphysical metonymy modern modernist myth mythic mythology mythopoeia mythopoeic Mythos narrative nature Nietzsche's notion Novalis object Oedipus origin Orpheus Orphic paradox Philomela philosophy poem poesy poet poetic poetry present primal primitive primitivist reality refers romantic romanticism Schelling Schlegel Schopenhauer scientific sense Spengler story structure symbol T. S. Eliot temporal Tennyson theory thermodynamics things tradition trans transcend translation truth unity Unseen Universe vocal voice W. B. Yeats Wagner Waste Land whole word writing Yeats Yeats's York
Populaire passages
Pagina 50 - What is she, cut from love and faith, But some wild Pallas from the brain Of Demons ? fiery-hot to burst All barriers in her onward race For power. Let her know her place ; She is the second, not the first.
Pagina 40 - For the discerning intellect of man, When wedded to this goodly universe In love and holy passion, shall find these A simple produce of the common day. I, long before the blissful hour arrives, Would chant, in lonely peace, the spousal verse Of this great consummation...
Pagina 41 - Accordingly, such a language, arising out of repeated experience and regular feelings, is a more permanent, and a far more philosophical language, than that which is frequently substituted for it by Poets, who think that they are conferring honour upon themselves and their art, in proportion as they separate themselves from the sympathies of men, and indulge in arbitrary and capricious habits of expression, in order to furnish food for fickle tastes, and fickle appetites, of their own creation.
Pagina 52 - One God, one law, one element, And one far-off divine event, To which the whole creation moves.
Pagina 40 - Not Chaos, not The darkest pit of lowest Erebus, Nor aught of blinder vacancy, scooped out By help of dreams, can breed such fear and awe As fall upon us often when we look Into our Minds, into the Mind of Man, My haunt, and the main region of my song.
Pagina 187 - In a Station of the Metro": The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals, on a wet, black bough.
Pagina 197 - One day the brothers who had been driven out came together, killed and devoured their father and so made an end of the patriarchal horde.
Pagina 128 - tis genuine English Idiom in English words. I have given up Hyperion — there were too many Miltonic inversions in it — Miltonic verse cannot be written but in an artful, or, rather, artist's humour. I wish to give myself up to other sensations. English ought to be kept up. It may be interesting to you to pick out some lines from Hyperion, and put a mark x to the false beauty proceeding from art, and one || to the true voice of feeling.