Yearbook of Comparative Criticism, Vol IX: Literary Criticism and Myth

by Joseph Strelka

The literary artist's use of myth is approached from three standpoints: general theoretical problems, special practical examples, and comparative theoretical trends. The relationship between an author's private myth and the myth that rises as the "spontaneous and anonymous creation of a whole people" ( in Baudelaire's phrase) is presented as an overall theme in Haskell Block's opening essay. Other broad theoretical issues covered are myth in poetry...

• Format: Library Binding
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0271002255
• ISBN13: 9780271002255
• Release Date: October 1990
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 300 Pages