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Mythography : the Study of Myths and Rituals. by Doty, William G.

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Medieval mythography. by Chance, Jane, 1945-

Table of Contents: “…Abbreviations and citation editions -- Chronology of medieval mythographers and commentary authors -- Introduction -- Toward a subjective mythography : allegorical figurae and authorial self-projection -- Dante's self-mythography : the inverted Ovid "commentary" of the Commedia (1321) and its family glosses -- "Iohannes de Certaldo" : self-validation in Boccaccio's "Genealogies of the gods" (ca. 1350-75) -- Franco-Italian Christine de Pizan's Epistre othea (1399-1401) : a feminized commentary on Ovid -- Coluccio Salutati's Hercules as Vir perfectus : justifying Seneca's Hercules furens in de Laboribus Herculis (1378?…”
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Greek mythography in the Roman world / by Cameron, Alan, 1938-2017

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Apollodoriana : Ancient Myths, New Crossroads

Table of Contents: “…Preface: Apollodorus: Cutting through Mythography /…”
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Barbarism revisited : new perspectives on an old concept

Table of Contents: “…: Franz Grillparzer's The Golden Fleece and the Challenge to the Mythography of Empire /…”
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Médée, l'altérité consentie by Fix, Florence

“…Mythographies et sociétés.…”
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A handbook to the reception of classical mythology

Table of Contents: “…Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Notes on Contributors; Introduction; Part I Mythography; Chapter 1 Greek Mythography; Beginnings and Classical Mythography; Post-classical Mythography ; Closing Thoughts; Guide to Further Reading; References; Chapter 2 Roman Mythography; Introduction; Surviving Texts; A Case Study: The Mythographic Midas; From Narrative to Interpretation: Fulgentius; Afterlife; Notes; Guide to Further Reading; References; Chapter 3 Myth and the Medieval Church; Guide to Further Reading; References; Chapter 4 The Renaissance Mythographers; Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375).…”
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Mythographic Chaucer : the Fabulation of Sexual Politics. by Chance, Jane

Table of Contents: “…Abbreviations; A Chronology of Major Medieval Mythographers; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction: "Fables and Swich Wrecchednesse"; Part 1. Mythography and Female Authority in the Dream Visions; Part 2. …”
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Northrop Frye and the phenomenology of myth by Gill, Glen Robert, 1969-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : phenomenology and modern mythography : Northrop Frye in context and contrast -- De Caelis : the platonic patterns of Mircea Eliade -- De Profundis : C.G. …”
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Brahma in the West : William Blake and the Oriental renaissance by Weir, David, 1947 April 20-

Table of Contents: “…BRAHMA IN THE WEST -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. Politics -- 2. Mythography -- 3. Theology -- Postscript -- APPENDIX A. …”
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Turncoats, traitors, and fellow travelers : culture and politics of the early Cold War by Redding, Arthur F., 1964-

Table of Contents: “…the Cold War and the geopolitics of race -- What it takes to be a man : masculinity, deviance, and sexuality -- The dreaded voyage into the world : nomadic ethics -- Frontier mythographies : savagery and civilization in John Ford.…”
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Turncoats, traitors, and fellow travelers : culture and politics of the early Cold War by Redding, Arthur F., 1964-

Table of Contents: “…the Cold War and the geopolitics of race -- What it takes to be a man : masculinity, deviance, and sexuality -- The dreaded voyage into the world : nomadic ethics -- Frontier mythographies : savagery and civilization in John Ford.…”

Beasts and beauties : animals, gender and domestication in the Italian renaissance / Beasts & beauties by Schiesari, Juliana

Table of Contents: “…'Jewels of women' : ladies, laps, and lapdogs in Renaissance culture -- Portrait of the poet as a dog : Petrarch's Epistola metrica III, 5 -- Alberti's Cavallo vivo, or The 'art' of domination -- Della Porta's face of domestication : physiognomy, gender politics, and humanism's others -- Psychoanalytic intermezzo : Freud's missed reading of Leonardo's alternative humanism -- Versions of Diana : gender and Renaissance mythography.…”
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Beasts and beauties : animals, gender and domestication in the Italian renaissance / Beasts & beauties by Schiesari, Juliana

Table of Contents: “…'Jewels of women' : ladies, laps, and lapdogs in Renaissance culture -- Portrait of the poet as a dog : Petrarch's Epistola metrica III, 5 -- Alberti's Cavallo vivo, or The 'art' of domination -- Della Porta's face of domestication : physiognomy, gender politics, and humanism's others -- Psychoanalytic intermezzo : Freud's missed reading of Leonardo's alternative humanism -- Versions of Diana : gender and Renaissance mythography.…”
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Homer and the question of strife from Erasmus to Hobbes by Wolfe, Jessica

Table of Contents: “…Homer, Erasmus, and the problem of strife -- The remedy of contraries : Melanchthon, Rabelais, and epic parody -- Spenser, Homer, and the mythography of strife. Part 1 : the concatenation of virtue -- Part 2 : the two faces of Atê -- Chapman's ironic Homer -- The razor's edge : Homer, Milton, and the problem of deliberation. …”
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Reading modernist poetry by Whitworth, Michael H.

Table of Contents: “…Techniques: interpreting obscurities, negotiating negatives; the sound of the poem; allusion and quotation; the language of modernist poetry: diction and dialogue; literal and metaphorical language; mythology, mythography, and mythopoesis; who is speaking? -- Part three. …”
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Caste, Colonialism And Counter-Modernity : Notes on a Postcolonial Hermeneutics of Caste. by Ganguly, Debjani

Table of Contents: “…ON THE OTHER SIDE OF REVENGE: CASTE AND POST-ORIENTALISM; 6. DALIT MYTHOGRAPHIES: AMBEDKAR AS MODERNIT'S INTERLOCUTOR; 7. …”
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Submerged literature in ancient Greek culture : the comparative perspective

Table of Contents: “…The resurrection of the divine assembly and the divine title el in the Dead Sea Scrolls / Jonathan Ben-Dov -- Out of the mainstream / Margalit Finkelberg -- The submersion of mythography / Robert L. Fowler -- The emergence of Athens / Manuela Giordano -- The purification of Orestes at Troezen / Luca Pucci -- Literacy and orality in the attic orators / Andrea Taddei -- With Pausanias (and others) in the Agora of Sparta / Emanuele Greco -- Beyond the boundary of the poetic language: Enigmas and riddles in Greek and Roman culture / Salvatore Monda -- Cantare cantilenae / Maurizio Bettini -- Modes of scriptural and personal authority in late antique religion / Guy G. …”
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Conjuring moments in African American literature : women, spirit work, and other such hoodoo by Martin, Kameelah L., 1978-

The Renaissance computer : knowledge technology in the first age of print

Table of Contents: “…Corns -- National and international knowledge: the limits of the histories of nations / Andrew Hadfield -- Arachne's web: intertextual mythography and the Renaissance Actaeon / Sarah Annes Brown -- The daughters of memory: Thomas Heywood's Gunaikeion and the female computer / Nonna Crook and Neil Rhodes -- Pierre de La Primaudaye's French academy: growing encyclopaedic / Anne Lake Prescott -- In the wilderness of forms: ideas and things in Thomas Browne's cabinets of curiosity / Claire Preston -- Articulate networks: the self, the book, and the world / Neil Rhodes.…”
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German Invention of Race. by Figal, Sara Eigen, 1965-

Table of Contents: “…Gods, Titans, and Monsters: Philhellenism, Race, and Religion in Early-Nineteenth-Century Mythography -- 9. From Indo-Germans to Aryans: Philology and the Racialization of Salvationalist National Rhetoric, 1806â€?…”
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Between orality and literacy : communication and adaptation in antiquity

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The Vatican mythographers

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The echo of ice letting go by LeMay, Julie Hungiville, 1954-2019

Table of Contents: “…His Sadness Is a LakeThese Mountains Are Long-Extinct Volcanoes; Near Power Creek: After a Marriage; Looking out the Window on a Winter Morning; Still; Anniversary: My Parents' Marriage; Redpolls in Winter; III; Mythography of the Wolf's Sorrow or An Alternative Rendering of the Romulus and Remus Legend; Trinity; Tosca, Act V; Here the Promise; Only Winter; Reincarnate; I Bow; Kashin-Beck Disease Is Endemic to Tibet; Who Will Speak of Lhasa?…”
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Post-communist nostalgia.

Table of Contents: “…Remembering the army in the former Yugoslavia / Tanja Petrović -- Dignity in transition : History, teachers, and the nation-state in post-1989 Bulgaria / Tim Pilbrow -- Invisible-inaudible : Albanian memories of socialism after the war in Kosovo / Stephanie Scwandner-Sievers -- "Let's all freeze up until 2100 or so" : Nostalgic directions in post-communist Romania / Oana Popescu-Sandu -- Sonic nostalgia : Music, memory, and mythography in Bulgaria, 1990-2005 / Donna A. Buchanan -- "Ceauşescu hasn't died" : Irony as countermemory in post-socialist Romania / Diana Georgescu -- Good bye, Lenin! …”
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Homecomings : Unsettling Paths of Return. by Markowitz, Fran

Table of Contents: “…Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Part I Introduction; 1 Homecomings to the Future: From Diasporic Mythographies to Social Projects of Return Anders H. …”
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Dingkulturen : Objekte in Literatur, Kunst und Gesellschaft der Vormoderne

Table of Contents: “…Funktion und Dinglichkeit in der Mythographie und im Trojanerkrieg Konrads von Würzburg.…”
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William T. Vollmann : a critical companion

Table of Contents: “…Vollmann; 2 The Poetics and Politics of Zoning, Mythography, and Mestizo Space in Imperial; Vollmann in Russia: On Poor People; 3 William T. …”
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American secrets : the politics and poetics of secrecy in the literature and culture of the United States

Table of Contents: “…"None but the dead are permitted to tell the truth": Mark Twain's missives to the future / Shelley Fisher Fishkin -- The ultimate secrecy: feminist readings of masculine trauma in Vietnam War literature / Carmen Méndez Garcia -- (Don't) trust the U.S. government: Paul Greengrass's United 93 and the 9/11 conspiracy theories / Esther Pérez Villalba -- The desert as a national sacrifice zone: the nuclear controversy in Nevada fiction / David Río -- Hidden truths and open lies: the performance of U.S. history and mythography in Tony Kushner's Angels in America and its film adaptation / Boris Vejdovsky -- Dirty laundry on the line: staging the nation in contemporary U.S. drama and performance / Robert Vorlicky -- Lolita, the secret of/in Lolita: "poerotics" of secrecy / Marie C. …”
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Ancient West & East. / Ancient West and East

Table of Contents: “…Fowler (ed.), Early Greek Mythography Vol. 1 (J. Boardman); N.A. Gavrilyuk, Istorya ekonomiki Stepnoi Skifii, VI-III vv. do n.e. …”
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A Handbook to the Reception of Ovid. by Miller, John F.

Table of Contents: “…Ovid in Medieval SchoolsLearning from the Enemy: The Case of Bersuire's Ovidius moralizatus; Note; Further Reading; References; Chapter 9 The Mythographic Tradition after Ovid; Ovidian Narrationes; The Allegorical Tradition; Ovid and Modern Mythography: Decline and Rebirth; Notes; Further Reading; References; Chapter 10 Ovid''s Exile and Medieval Italian Literature: The Lyric Tradition; Ovid and the Paradigm of Exile; Ovid and Exile Lyrics in the stilus miserorum; Thematic Focus: Urbs and Wilderness; Petrarch; Notes; Further Reading; References.…”
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The Palgrave handbook of early modern literature and science

Table of Contents: “…Poetic Science: Wonder and the Seas of Cognition in Bacon and Pericles; Jean E. Feerick -- 21. A Mythography of Water: Hydraulic Engineering and the Imagination; Louise Noble -- 22. …”
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A cultural history of the avant-garde in the Nordic countries, 1950-1975

Table of Contents: “…Everyday High and Low -- Finnish Avant-Garde Poetry of the 1960s in a Rapidly Changing Society -- The Rose Campaign -- John Davidsen's Appropriation of Commercial Formats -- PUSS 1968-1973 -- Counterculture -- "A Furious Girl from Rome" -- Róska and the Mythography of Avant-Garde Bohemianism -- "From Everyone to Everyone" -- The Countercultural Little Magazine Dikt &amp -- datt -- The Alternative Eurovision Song Contest in Sweden, 1975 -- Index.…”
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