Literature, Modernism and Myth

Informationen zum Autor The author, Michael A. Bell graduated from Hillcrest High School in Memphis, Tennessee. He immediately joined the military, and served four years in the U.S. Army. He is the oldest of four children by the late Dr. Jewell Bell Jr. and his mother died this year of 2021. Michael attended the Memphis School Of Preaching, where he and his wife Ruby studied the word of GOD. They both enjoy teaching children in Sunday school, and are involved in the ministry of visiting the sick, the elderly, and shut-in. Presently, they reside in Bartlett, Tennessee. Occasionally, Michael preaches the word of GOD whenever, and wherever the LORD leads. Klappentext A study of the use of myth by modernists, and its relationship to contemporary notions of postmodernity. Zusammenfassung Modernist literature discovered through myth an underlying metaphysic to an increasingly fragmented world. Michael Bell's study shows how modernists also used myth to emphasize the contingency of all values. This anti-foundational element! Bell claims! enables myth to act as a corrective to the political claims of ideological critique. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; Part I: 1. Myth in the age of the world view; Part II: 2. Varieties of modernist mythopoeia; 3. Countercases: T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound; 4. The politics of modernist mythopoeia; Part III: 5. The break-up of modernist mythopoeia; 6. Living with myth: Cervantes and the new world; 7. Living without myth: deconstructing the old world; Part IV: Conclusion: ideology, myth and criticism; Notes; Select bibliography; Index.

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A study of the use of myth by modernists, and its relationship to contemporary notions of postmodernity.

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Modernist literature discovered through myth an underlying metaphysic to an increasingly fragmented world. Michael Bell's study shows how modernists also used myth to emphasize the contingency of all values. This anti-foundational element, Bell claims, enables myth to act as a corrective to the political claims of ideological critique.

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Introduction; Part I: 1. Myth in the age of the world view; Part II: 2. Varieties of modernist mythopoeia; 3. Countercases: T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound; 4. The politics of modernist mythopoeia; Part III: 5. The break-up of modernist mythopoeia; 6. Living with myth: Cervantes and the new world; 7. Living without myth: deconstructing the old world; Part IV: Conclusion: ideology, myth and criticism; Notes; Select bibliography; Index.