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Meaning and Being in Myth by Norman Austin (1990, Hardcover)

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PublisherPennsylvania STATE University Press

ISBN-100271006811

ISBN-139780271006819

eBay Product ID (ePID)77393

Product Key Features

Number of Pages252 Pages

Publication NameMeaning and Being in Myth

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year1990

SubjectMovements / Existentialism, Folklore & Mythology, Ancient & Classical, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaLiterary Criticism, Philosophy, Social Science

AuthorNorman Austin

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height0.6 in

Item Weight20.8 Oz

Item Length9 in

Item Width6 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN89-034186

Dewey Edition20

Reviews"Austin's prose is as lively and engaging as it is accurate and rigorous, a combination that is rare in scholarly writing." --John Peradotto,SUNY, Buffalo, &"Austin&'s prose is as lively and engaging as it is accurate and rigorous, a combination that is rare in scholarly writing.&" &-John Peradotto, SUNY, Buffalo, "Austin's prose is as lively and engaging as it is accurate and rigorous, a combination that is rare in scholarly writing." -John Peradotto, SUNY, Buffalo, "Austin's prose is as lively and engaging as it is accurate and rigorous, a combination that is rare in scholarly writing." --John Peradotto, SUNY, Buffalo

Dewey Decimal291.1/3

SynopsisNorman Austin has organized his analysis of classical Greek myths around Lacan's dichotomy between (ineffable) Being and the meanings imposed upon Being by culturally determined signifiers. The primary signifiers in myth (the gods), as projections of contradictory meanings, impel human consciousness in contradictory directions: toward heroic self-realization, on the one hand, and into the fear, guilt, and despair resulting from failure, on the other. The gods both reveal and occlude that which they signify--the signified; ultimately, Being itself. Austin includes one chapter on the father's ghost in Shakespeare's Hamlet , and another on Albert Camus's The Stranger , as examples of the power of mythical archetypes to reveal and occlude Being, even when the apparatus of gods has been excluded. Despite their pessimism, ancient myths also affirm that the paradoxes are not insoluble. Austin concludes by outlining the profile of the Universal Self intimated in myth, religion, and philosophy as the joint venture of the world realized in consciousness, consciousness realized in consciousness, and consciousness realized in the world.

LC Classification NumberBL304.A97 1990