Myth Av Laurence Coupe

<P>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:</P><UL><LI>illustrates the relation between myth, culture and literature with discussions of poetry, fiction, film and popular song</LI><LI>explores uses made of the term ¿myth¿ within the fields of literary criticism, anthropology, cultural studies, feminism, Marxism and psychoanalysis</LI><LI>discusses the association between modernism, postmodernism, myth and history</LI><LI>familiarizes the reader with themes such as the dying god, the quest for the Grail, the relation between ¿chaos¿ and ¿cosmos¿, and the vision of the end of time</LI><LI>demonstrates the growing importance of the green dimension of myth.</LI><P></P></UL><P></P><P>Fully updated and revised in this new edition, <EM>Myth</EM> is both a concise introduction and a useful tool to students first approaching the to