Product Description: Ce premier ouvrage monographique orienté sur la palingénésie et la création d’un système mythique dans l’œuvre poétique de Charles Baudelaire vise à étudier le parcours mythologique qui structure sa poésie en examinant ses manifestations les plus significatives...read more

Product Description: The mythological patrimony is an excellent example of the unconscious creative ability that brings reason both to the existence of myth as well as to its symbolic function. Reconsidering the connection between literature and psychoanalysis, this study starts from the Jungian archetypal theory up to the Freudian unconscious and its ability to produce symbols, and provides the tools for a reading of the phenomenon of the literary rework, in the modern age, of meaningful themes and mythological figures...read more

Product Description: A reissue of the literary detective work examining Tolkien's sources and inspiration, beautifully illustrated by the lead conceptual artist for the LOTR film trilogy, of whom Peter Jackson said "His art captured what I hoped to capture with the films...read more

Product Description: The authors of the fifteen essays that make up this volume were invited to interpret 'Myth and its Making' in the widest possible sense. They were encouraged to re-examine not only the time-honoured ancient themes exploited in the French theatre from the Renaissance onwards, but other literary, historical or legendary subjects that have undergone a similar process of mythic enhancement and stylisation...read more

Product Description: Detailed appraisals of the mythic tradition: Heine, Burckhardt, Wagner, Nietzsche, George, Rilke. Red cloth binding, 222 pages. Harvard University Press, 1974. First Edition. Hardcover.