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English Poetry and Old Norse Myth: A History
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English Poetry and Old Norse Myth: A History

English Poetry and Old Norse Myth: A History traces the influence of Old Norse myth -- stories and poems about the familiar gods and goddesses of the pagan North, such as Odin, Thor, Baldr and Freyja -- on poetry in English from Anglo-Saxon times to the present day. Especial care is taken to determine the precise form in which these poets encountered the mythic material, so that the book traces a parallel history of the gradual dissemination of Old Norse mythic texts.
 
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Tags: Norse, English, mythic, traces, History
Mythology - The Voyage of the Hero
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Mythology - The Voyage of the HeroMythology - The Voyage of the Hero

What makes something mythic? What do mythic events and narratives have to do with us? In Mythology, David Leeming offers an unusual and effective approach to the subject of mythology by stressing universal themes through myths of many cultures. This anthology collects a wide array of narrative texts from the Bible to English literature to interpretations by Joseph Campbell, C.G. Jung, and others, which illustrate how myths serve whole societies in our universal search for meaning.

 

 
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Tags: universal, myths, Mythology, mythic, narrative, Voyage
Gods, Heroes, and Kings: The Battle for Mythic Britain
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Gods, Heroes, and Kings: The Battle for Mythic BritainGods, Heroes, and Kings: The Battle for Mythic Britain

Elegant contributions to the vast literature on mythology, these well-informed and thoroughly documented studies enhance our understanding of this elusive topic. Originally a series of lectures, Leeming's Myth is divided into four complementary essays covering myths and religious faith, creation stories, gender, and hero stories. The essays investigate the role of ancient beliefs in modern culture, clarifying the relationship between myth and fact and showing how myths evolve and endure in the works of noted authors  
 
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Tags: myths, essays, stories, culture, clarifying, Britain, Mythic
Middlesex
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MiddlesexMiddlesex

"I was born twice: first, as a baby girl, on a remarkably smogless Detroit day in January of 1960; and then again, as a teenage boy, in an emergency room near Petoskey, Michigan, in August of 1974." And so begins Middlesex, the mesmerizing saga of a near-mythic Greek American family and the "roller-coaster ride of a single gene through time...
 
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Tags: Middlesex, first, second, novel, Jeffrey, Greek, mythic, begins, American