Myth and the Making of Modernity: The Problem of Grounding in Early Twentieth-Century Literature

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Acknowledgements. Michael BELL: Introduction. I Antecedents: A New Mythology? Bianca THEISEN: Romantic Myths of Myth: Myth as Autopoiesis. Edward LARRISSY: Zoas and Moods: Myth and Aspects of the Mind in Blake and Yeats. Maike OERGEL: Myth in the Nineteenth Century: Tennyson's Idylls and Wagner's Ring des Nibelungen. Peter POELLNER: Myth, Art and Illusion in Nietzsche. II Myth, Science, Technology. Bruce CLARKE: A Different Sun: The Allegory of Thermodynamics in D.H. Lawrence. David E. COOPER: Reactionary Modernism and Self-Conscious Myth. Robert SEGAL: The Existentialist Reinterpretation of Myth: Rudolf Bultmann and Hans Jonas. III Poeticizing the Modern: Myth as a Form of Life. Leon BURNETT: The Domination of Memory: Dark Days of Modernism. Peter NICHOLLS: To Unscrew the Inscrutable: Myth as Fiction and Belief in Ezra Pound's Cantos. Marc MANGANARO: Myth as Culture: The Lesson of Anthropology in T.S. Eliot. IV A New Immediacy: Grounding or Overcoming the Subject? John MCGOVERN: Like Water in Water: Primitivism and Modernity. Rainer EMIG: Macro-Myths and Micro-Myths: Modernist Poetry and the Problem of Artistic Creation. Gerald SIEGMUND: Freud's Myths: Memory, Culture and the Subject. Steven CONNOR: Echo's Bones: Myth, Modernity and the Vocalic Uncanny. Notes on Contributors. Bibliography of Works Cited. Index.