Myths and motifs in literature. / Edited by David J. Burrows, Frederick R. Lapides [and] John T. Shawcross.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Burrows, David J., compiler.

Contributor:

Lapides, Frederick R., compiler.

Shawcross, John T., compiler.

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literature--Collections.

Literature.

Comparative literature--Themes, motives.

Comparative literature.

Genre:

Collections.

Penn Provenance:

Russel, Myra (autograph) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xxii, 470 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Free Press, [1973]

Contents:

Archetypal patterns in tragic poetry / Maud Bodkin

Archetype and signature (the relationship of poet and poem) / Leslie Fiedler

The nature of symbolic language / Erich Fromm

Family and religion / William J. Goode

The sacred marriage / James G. Frazer

Fictional modes / Northrop Frye

The divine family : sky father, earth mother

The origin of the world / The Mission Indians of California

The creation : Genesis, chapters 1 and 2

Metamorphoses I, 1-373 [excerpts]. The creation ; The four ages ; Jove's intervention ; The story of Lycaon ; The flood / Ovid ; translated by Rolfe Humphries

Lady Madonna / John Lennon and Paul McCartney

Night-sea journey / John Barth

Crow blacker than ever / Ted Hughes

Europa (from Metamorphoses, II, 830-875) / Ovid ; translated by Rolfe Humphries

The annunciation : Luke, chapter 1

Leda and the swan / William Butler Yeats

The prodigal son : Luke, chapter 15

A voyage to Cythera / Charles Baudelaire ; translated by Frederick Morgan

Young Goodman Brown / Nathaniel Hawthorne

Adam and Eve : Genesis, chapters 2 and 3

The fall of Adam and Eve (from Paradise Lost, IX, 722-1189 / John Milton

Araby / James Joyce

Fern Hill / Dylan Thomas

When I was one-and-twenty / A.E. Housman

Innocence / Sean O'Faolain

Jacob serves Laban for Rachel and Leah : Genesis, chapter 29

The golden vanity / Anonymous

The hero with one face / David Wagoner

The exodus : Exodus, chapters 13, 14 and 15

What is the beautiful? / Kenneth Patchen

Eldorado / Edgar Allan Poe

I saw a man / Stephen Crane

The land of heart's desire / William Butler Yeats

The Mediterranean / Allen Tate

The promised visit / Grey Cohoe

An encounter / James Joyce

Telemachos (from The Odyssey, Book II / Homer

my father moved through dooms of love / e.e. cummings

Daddy / Sylvia Plath

Father and I / Pär Lagerkvist ; translated by M. Ekenberg

In dreams begin responsibilities / Delmore Schwartz

The story of Orpheus and Eurydice (from Metamorphoses, X, 1085) / Ovid ; translated by Rolfe Humphries

The raising of Lazarus : John, chapter 11

The resurrection : Luke, chapters 23 and 24

Summer water and Shirley / Durango Mendoza

Snake / D.H. Lawrence

Joe Hill / Alfred Hayes

Achilles (from The Iliad, Book XX) / Homer

Prometheus bound / Aeschylus ; translated by Edith Hamilton

Eclogue IV / Vergil

Messiah : Daniel, chapter 11

Servant of Jehovah : Isaiah, chapter 53

The birth of Jesus : Matthew, chapters 1, 2 and 3

A god and yet a man? / Anonymous

The gray champion / Nathaniel Hawthorne

Woyzeck / Georg Büchner

Ulysses / Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Oedipus / Edwin Muir

Morning song from "Senlin" / Conrad Aiken

Parsifal (after Wagner and Verlaine) / Robert Duncan

Rethinking a children's story / Dick Allen

God's other side / Langston Hughes

New kittens (from Bound for glory, chapter 4) / Woody Guthrie

Gimpel the fool / Isaac Bashevis Singer ; translated by Saul Bellow

Satan in Hell and in Eden (from Paradise Lost, I, 242-270; IV, 1-113 / John Milton

Faustus (from The tragical history of Doctor Faustus, I, iii) / Christopher Marlowe

The dark angel / Lionel Johnson

Lucifer in starlight / George Meredith

in Just-spring / e.e. cummings

Milton by firelight / Gary Snyder

I have no mouth, and I must scream / Harlan Ellison

Cain : Genesis, chapter 4

Ishmael : Genesis, chapters 16, 17 and 21

The man of the crowd / Edgar.

Allan Poe

Ethan Brand / Nathaniel Hawthorne

Miniver Cheevy / Edwin Arlington Robinson

Out cast / Claude McKay

William Wilson . Edgar Allan Poe

Unmasking a confidence trickster (from meditations) / Franz Kafka

The heavy bear [who goes with me] / Delmore Schwartz

In a dark time / Theodore Roethke

Adonis (from metamorphoses, X, 519-556, 698-739 ; trans. Rolfe Humphries) / Ovid

Christ is crucified / Matthew, chapter 27

The permanent delegate (trans. Max Rosenfeld and Walter Lowenfels) / Yuri Suhl

Fertility rite / Dilys Laing

The death of Helga Brunner / Yuri Suhl

The convert / Lerone Bennett, Jr.

Circe (from The Odyssey, Book X) / Homer

Samson and Delilah / Judges, chapter 16

La Belle Dame Sans Merci / John Keats

Faustine / Algernon Charles Swinburne

The boarding house / James Joyce

Calypso's Island / Archibald MacLeish.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 465-467).

Local Notes:

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy signed by Myra Russel.

OCLC:

640390