 | Dominick LaCapra - 1989 - 236 pages
...confirm his own conclusion that "modern 132 literature has been engaged in transmitting the time world of history into the timeless world of myth. And it...myth, forming the common content of modern literature, that finds its appropriate aesthetic expression in spatial form" (Frank, p. 60). One might object that... | |
 | Joseph Frank - 1991 - 220 pages
...another discipline confirm the view that modern literature has been engaged in transmuting the time world of history into the timeless world of myth. And it is this timeless world of myth, forming the content of so much of modern literature, that finds its appropriate aesthetic expression in spatial... | |
 | William V. Spanos - 1993 - 376 pages
...writers into the mythical imagination for which historical time does not exist — the imagination which sees the actions and events of a particular time merely as the bodying forth of eternal prototypes. . . . And it is this timeless world of myth, forming the common content of modern literature, which... | |
 | Neil H. Donahue - 1995 - 250 pages
...sensibility of the modern period: "modern literature has been engaged in transmitting the time world of history into the timeless world of myth. And it...myth, forming the common content of modern literature, that finds its appropriate expression in spatial form" (60). Indeed, for Frank, it is precisely Worringer... | |
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Renaissance, is transformed in these writers into the mythical imagination for which historical time does not exist — the imagination that sees the actions and events of a particular time merely as the bodying forth of eta^L_plOtptyj>es. 