Myth and Literature: Contemporary Theory and Practice

412 Pages·1969·25.087 MB·English

by  John B. Vickery

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MYTH AND LITERATURE
Contemporary Theory and Practice
Edited by
JOHN B. VICKERY
BISON
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS
LINCOLN
Acknowledgments for permission to reprint copyrighted
material appear on page 383
Copyright © 1966 by the University of Nebraska Press
All rights reserved
Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 65-11563
International Standard Book Number 0-8032-5208-0
First Bison Book printing: August, 1969
Most recent printing shown by first digit below:
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Manufactured in the United States of America
To Olga and Ann

CONTENTS
Introduction 1X
I THEANA PURE OF MYTH
Myth, Symbolism, and Truth DAVID BIDNEY
Bios and Mythos: Prolegomena to a Science of Mythology
JOSEPH CAMPBELL 15
Myth and Folktale GEzA ROHEIM 25
Myths and Rituals: A General Theory CLYDE KLUCKHOHN 33
II. MYTH AND LITERATURE
The Ritual View of Myth and the Mythic STANLEY EDGAR HYMAN 47
Notes on Mythopoeia PHILIP WHEELWRIGHT 59
Notes on the Study of Myth RICHARD CHASE 67
Myth and Drama HAROLD H. WATTS 75
The Archetypes of Literature NORTHROP FRYE 87
The Working Novelist and the Mythmaking Process ANDREW LYTLE 99
The Myth and the Powerhouse PHILIP RAHV 109
The Meaning of “Myth” in Modern Criticism WALLACE W. DOUGLAS 11g
Cultural Anthropology and Contemporary Literary Criticism
129
HASKELL M. BLOCK
III. MYTH AND CRITICISM
Definitions and Discriminations
“Myth” and the Literary Scruple FRANCIS FERGUSSON 139
The Myth and Ritual Approach to Shakespearean Tragedy
HERBERT WEISINGER 149
Initiatory Motifs in the Story of Telemachus CHARLES W. ECKERT 161
Myth and Medieval Literature: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
171
CHARLES MOORMAN
The Presence of Myth
The Archetypal Pattern of Death and Rebirth in Milton’s Lycidas
RICHARD P. ADAMS 187
Big Medicine in Moby Dick REGINALD L. COOK 193
The Myth of Man: Joyce’s Finnegans Wake MARVIN MAGALANER 201
The Imaginal Design
Myth in The Blithedale Romance PETER B. MURRAY
The Red Badge of Courage as Myth and Symbol JOHN E. HART
Vili CONTENTS
Symbolism of the Cyclical Myth in Endymion ROBERT HARRISON 229
The Critical Analogy
Mythic Patterns in To the Lighthouse JOSEPH L. BLOTNER
2.43
Nature Myth in Faulkner’s The Bear JOHN LYDENBERG
257
Dickens and Some Motifs of the Fairy Tale sHIRLEY GROB 265
Mythic Themes and Forms
Remarks on the Sad Initiation of Huckleberry Finn JAMES M. COX
2h]
The Sunburnt God: Ritual and Tragic Myth in The Return of the Native
LOUIS CROMPTON 289
Myth and Ritual in the Shorter Fiction of D. H. Lawrence
JOHN B. VICKERY 299
The Psychological Dimension
An Archetypal Analysis of Conrad’s Nostromo CLAIRE ROSENFIELD
315
Walden: The Wisdom of the Centaur WILLIAM BYSSHE STEIN
335
The Use of Myth'in Kafka and Mann HARRY SLOCHOWER
349
From Mythological to Mythopoeic
Tennyson’s Mythology: A Study of Demeter and Persephone
G. ROBERT STANGE 357
Prophetic Myths in Zola PHILIP WALKER
369
A Selective Bibliography
377
Acknowledgments
383
Index
387