TY - BOOK AU - Coupe,Laurence TI - Myth T2 - The new critical idiom SN - 9780415442848 AV - BL304 .C68 2009 U1 - 201.3 22 PY - 2009/// CY - London PB - Routledge KW - Myth N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. [215]-222) and index; Part I. Reading myth : Order : Dying gods ; Words and the word ; The mythical method -- Chaos : The comic vision ; Singer as shaman ; The sacred and the profane ; The heart-of-darkness trip -- Endings : The circuitous quest ; The rhetoric of revelation ; Apocalypse without apocalypse -- Part II. Mythic reading : Truth : Realism and non-realism ; Allegory: the perspective of perfection ; Radical typology: permanent possibility ; Enlightenment and counter-enlightenment --Psyche : The primal crime ; The search for the self ; The grammar of the mind -- History : Criticism as vision ; A single story? ; Testaments of deliverance -- Earth : The war on nature ; Nature now and then ; Nature as revelation ; A religion of the world UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0823/2008030181.html ER -