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Product Description: KENNETH BURKE: FROM MYTH TO ECOLOGY is the first full-length study of a remarkable thinker's approach to those founding narratives, those essential structures of thought, which cannot be credited to any one individual but rather belong to the whole community...read more
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9781602354555 | Parlor Pr, May 31, 2013, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: KENNETH BURKE: FROM MYTH TO ECOLOGY is the first full-length study of a remarkable thinker's approach to those founding narratives, those essential structures of thought, which cannot be credited to any one individual but rather belong to the whole community.
Product Description: This book reveals the ideas behind the Beat vision which influenced the Beat sound of the songwriters who followed on from them. Having explored the thinking of Alan Watts, who coined the term 'Beat Zen', and who influenced the counterculture which emerged out of the Beat movement, it celebrates Jack Kerouac as a writer in pursuit of a 'beatific' vision...read more
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9780719071126 | Manchester Univ Pr, September 4, 2007, cover price $79.00 | About this edition: This book reveals the ideas behind the Beat vision which influenced the Beat sound of the songwriters who followed on from them.
Paperback:
9780719071133 | Manchester Univ Pr, December 21, 2010, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: This book reveals the ideas behind the Beat vision which influenced the Beat sound of the songwriters who followed on from them.
Product Description: Laurence Coupe offers students a comprehensive overview of the development of myth, showing how mythic themes, structures and symbols persist in literature and entertainment today. This introductory volume: illustrates the relation between myth, culture and literature with discussions of poetry, fiction, film and popular song explores uses made of the term âmythâ within the fields of literary criticism, anthropology, cultural studies, feminism, Marxism and psychoanalysis discusses the association between modernism, postmodernism, myth and history familiarizes the reader with themes such as the dying god, the quest for the Grail, the relation between âchaosâ and âcosmosâ, and the vision of the end of time demonstrates the growing importance of the green dimension of myth...read more
Hardcover:
9780415442411 | 2 edition (Routledge, February 13, 2009), cover price $110.00 | About this edition: Laurence Coupe offers students a comprehensive overview of the development of myth, showing how mythic themes, structures and symbols persist in literature and entertainment today.
9780415134934 | Routledge, February 1, 1998, cover price $95.00 | About this edition: Laurence Coupe offers students a crucial overview of the evolution of 'myth', from the ancient Greek definitions to those of a range of contemporary thinkers.
Paperback:
9780415442848 | 2 edition (Routledge, January 29, 2009), cover price $26.95 | About this edition: Laurence Coupe offers students a comprehensive overview of the development of myth, showing how mythic themes, structures and symbols persist in literature and entertainment today.
9780415134941 | Routledge, December 1, 1997, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: Laurence Coupe offers students a crucial overview of the evolution of 'myth', from the ancient Greek definitions to those of a range of contemporary thinkers.
Miscellaneous:
9780203888087 | 2 new edition (Routledge, December 9, 2008), cover price $22.95
9780203130780 | Routledge, January 4, 2002, cover price $22.95
Warner is such a widely celebrated writer that it is a source of some wonderment that this is the first full-length study of her work. Warner is a novelist whose work is rooted in traditional forms such as legend, romance and fairy tale yet who is wholly contemporary in her thinking. This is a must read for students and fans alike.
Hardcover:
9780746311127 | Northcote House Pub Ltd, May 15, 2006, cover price $80.00 | About this edition: No other writer has Warner's flair for moving so elegantly between myth, fiction and history.
Paperback:
9780746309988 | Northcote House Pub Ltd, May 15, 2006, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Warner is such a widely celebrated writer that it is a source of some wonderment that this is the first full-length study of her work.
Product Description: Kenneth Burke--rhetorician, philosopher, linguist, sociologist, literary and music critic, crank--was one of the foremost theorists of literary form. He did not fit tidily into any philosophical school, nor was he reducible to any simple set of principles or ideas...read more
Hardcover:
9780415936408 | Routledge, September 1, 2004, cover price $120.00 | About this edition: Kenneth Burke--rhetorician, philosopher, linguist, sociologist, literary and music critic, crank--was one of the foremost theorists of literary form.
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Hardcover:
9780415204064 | Routledge, November 1, 2000, cover price $180.00
Paperback:
9780415204071 | Routledge, November 1, 2000, cover price $46.95
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